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I just finished another exciting Mary Stewart novel! Even better: I was able to do the buy-book-read-book thing so quickly that the $0.99 sale is still in effect and I can urge y‘all to grab it if you‘re in the mood for a Cretan adventure with great tension. It‘s from 1962, so there‘re a couple dodgy bits, but nothing awful enough to destroy my enjoyment.

The author's writing in this book is exquisite, but I could've done without the last 5% of the book, sometimes a story does not need an epilogue.

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Scorpionfish, by Natalie Bakopoulos (2020)
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Premise: A Greek-American woman returns to her family‘s Athens apartment, to find the city, country, and her friends changed.

Review: This is a quiet and subtle, yet profound reflection on big themes such as loss, identity, community, belonging, and place. While a small story of this one woman and her friends, the reverberations of global issues are loud. ⬇️

This turned out to be so much more than I expected. Caveat: I've never seen the film. Yes, there is a romance, but that's not the whole story. The writing is beautiful, but fairly dense - this is not an easy beach read. Nor is the subject matter feel-good fluff. Perseverance is rewarded, this was, for me, an incredible reading experience. I learnt so much, I FELT so much...just wonderful!
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Was also in the mood for some comfort reading this week (work has been a *lot* lately). So, Mary Stewart it is.

So many what ifs when it comes to the Roman conquering of Greece… If it wasn‘t for Rome, who knows what Greece or Europe could have looked like today… #history #europeanhistory #ancientgreece #ancientrome #romanempire #europe #normandavies #greece #syracuse #alternatehistory #moeriscus #Carthage #hannibal

Sat in a beach bar, trying to read, but I keep getting distracted...🇬🇷♥️🇬🇷

We learned some new terms in the end starting with Catastrophe Theory where math is used to understand how sudden, discontinuous changes can arise from smooth, continuous changes. #chaostheory #europe #normandavies #history #prehistory #cnossos #mycenae #thera #europeanhistory #volcano #volcanoceruptions #greece