I am looking forward to your comments! I read the Wilson translation in November and December and a bit of January (with a specific eye to something for writing), and loved it.

(Though comparing some of her choices with her Iliad, which she did second, is also fascinating.)

The pacing on the Odyssey threw me too (i.e. which scenes happen when, and where the focus is) though taken as an episodic poem where you'd expect specific chunks of it on a given night makes some of that make more sens.e