Something Will Happen, You'll See

Something Will Happen, You'll See | Christos Ikonomou

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A cheery one to start the #heatofjuly (sorry!)

As the title suggests, this is a book about waiting. Everything happens slowly when you're waiting to get paid, to lose your job, to find a way to feed the kids, to find a miracle way out. It places you firmly in the experience of poverty and desperation, during the Greek economic crisis.

And I've been reading this everso #despacito for months - it's beautifully written, but incredibly bleak.

rockpools @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen and an extremely late #readaroundtheworld #greece @jenp 6y

BarbaraBB The quote triggers me, so beautiful! 6y

TrishB That is beautiful writing 💕 6y

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Something Will Happen, You'll See | Christos Ikonomou

If only I had written something.
I'm filled with incredible emptiness.
If I had written some heroic words of mourning someone would have paid attention.
For sure.
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After the death of his friend in a 'workplace accident', Yiannis wants everyone to know, so stages a one-man protest. He is less #tiredoftalking than of no-one listening. And he has no words.

#aprella

Image: Eric Vernier, Bannering up - https://flic.kr/p/dFog1h

Cinfhen, Reviewsbylola, emilyhaldi, Mdargusch

Mdargusch Sounds heartbreaking. 6y

emilyhaldi 💙 6y

Reviewsbylola 💔💔💔 6y

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Something Will Happen, You'll See | Christos Ikonomou

TrishB Wow 😮 6y

rockpools @TrishB It's quite a 😮 kind of book. I'm off to index a book on Business Ethics for some light relief 🤔 6y

TrishB Must be difficult if Business Ethics is light relief! 6y

rockpools @TrishB Uncomfortable and a bit grim & bleak, rather than difficult. Sure a few pages of BE will make it look wildly appealing tho! 6y

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Something Will Happen, You'll See | Christos Ikonomou

#marchintooz #dontbelieveanymore @Cinfhen @Lizpixie

Making an early start on #readaroundtheworld #greece and will try again with Peru next month, as attempt 1 never quite happened and attempt 2 hasn't arrived yet. @JenP

These are raw, angry stories of living in Greece on the poverty line during the economic crisis. And they're good. I read this passage today, and it seemed to fit.

Cinfhen I‘m failing on my #LitsyPassport challenge 😟😢😜 6y

rockpools @Cinfhen Honestly, me too - I've read 1! In fact all of my around-the-world type challenges have gone a bit belly up - I seem to be reading from every country except the ones on the lists! 🗺🙃 6y

BookishMe I found Peru books, mostly about drab and miserable lives too ;(( 6y

rockpools @BookishMe This IS really good. But grim. I failed totally with Peru and not sure how much better I'm going to do with this month's ... 6y

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Something Will Happen, You'll See | Christos Ikonomou