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Debra Hamel
North Haven, CT
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June 2020: Book notices
Edward Dolnick, The Rescue Artist Amazon In this very readable narrative, Edward Dolnick writes about the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch's Scream (or one version of the piece, as there are several) from Norway's National Gallery and the ensuing undercover... Continue reading
Posted Jun 30, 2020 at book-blog.com
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May 2020: Book notices
Gregg Hurwitz, Into the Fire Amazon Into the Fire details Orphan X's latest--and maybe his final--mission This time, he's contacted on his super secure RoamZone phone by Max Merriweather, a down-on-his-luck construction worker who lands in serious trouble after his... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2020 at book-blog.com
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March 2020: Book notices
Rachel Hoffman, Unf*ck Your Habitat Amazon This is a book about cleaning that might have been written by your therapist. Rachel Hoffman--who doesn't seem to be a therapist in fact--gives advice about cleaning, sure, but the real value here is... Continue reading
Posted Mar 31, 2020 at book-blog.com
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February 2020: Book notices
Loreth Anne White, In the Dark Amazon In the Dark is a story about what happens when a group of people is put in a real-life Survivor-type situation. Eight guests and their pilot are invited to go on an all-expenses-paid... Continue reading
Posted Feb 29, 2020 at book-blog.com
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January 2020: Book notices
Lee Goldberg, Lost Hills Amazon This is the first book in a new series by Lee Goldberg, author of a bajillion books, including the late Monk series, which I enjoyed a lot. This one is a police procedural focused on... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2020 at book-blog.com
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University of Vermont
Intensive Greek Intensive Latin Upper level Greek and Latin tutorials Intensives meet for 8-week, 4 x a week, 3 hours per day. They are run by graduate students, with supplementary visits / readings with professor(s). Cost is low—$2,000.00 for the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2020 at Summer Classics
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December 2019: Book notices
Jeremy Bates, The Sleep Experiment Amazon UC Berkeley professor Roy Wallis is conducting a sleep experiment in the basement of a soon-to-be-demolished building on campus. He's got two students working with him, both of them enamored of the wealthy, confident,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2019 at book-blog.com
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Exedra Mediterranean Center
Ancient Greek in Siracusa Greek for Philosophers Study Greek in Siracusa July 27-August 14, 2020 Fonte Aretusa is teaming up with Exedra Mediterranean Center to offer a summer course in ancient Greek, with a special “Greek for Philosophers” week dedicated... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2019 at Summer Classics
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November 2019: Book notices
Alexander McCall Smith, The Department of Sensitive Crimes Amazon Ulf Varg heads up a crew of quirky detectives in Sweden's Department of Sensitive Crimes. They investigate unusual offenses--those that have odd elements or maybe aren't worth the attention of a... Continue reading
Posted Nov 30, 2019 at book-blog.com
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September 2019: Book notices
Mark Edwards, Here to Stay Amazon Elliot gets married to Gemma after a whirlwind courtship, but when his inlaws come to visit, things go south fast. They're possibly the most annoying people on the planet, and they seem to have... Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2019 at book-blog.com
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August 2019: Book notices
John Braddock, A Spy's Guide to Taking Risks Amazon John Braddock is back with another brief, highly readable entry in his Spy's Guide series. This time, he walks us through a meeting with a source while explaining an approach to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2019 at book-blog.com
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July 2019: Book notices
Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing Amazon This book just prompted me to make an actual physical list of must-read authors with Peter Swanson's name on it so I won't run the chance of forgetting how much I loved The... Continue reading
Posted Jul 31, 2019 at book-blog.com
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June 2019: Book notices
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Amazon This book falls in the just okay category for me. I liked the earlier part of the story, when our hero, Clay Jannon (whose name I had to look up despite just finishing... Continue reading
Posted Jun 30, 2019 at book-blog.com
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May 2019: Book notices
John Marrs, The One Amazon How would life be different if a simple DNA test could tell you the identity of your soulmate, the one you were biologically made to be with? In The One, John Marrs tells the stories... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2019 at book-blog.com
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University College London
Greek for Beginners Intermediate Greek Advanced Greek Homer in Translation Linear B Latin Palaeography and Homer Greek Religion and Homer Homer in the Middle Ages Philosophy and Homer Homeric Meditations and Yoga Summer School in Homer 2019, UCL Monday 22nd... Continue reading
Posted May 29, 2019 at Summer Classics
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April 2019: Book notices
Linwood Barclay, A Noise Downstairs Amazon Linwood Barclay can write quite the page-turner, and although he's Canadian, he tends to set his books in nearby (to me) Milford, Connecticut, which is cool. A Noise Downstairs is about Paul Davis, a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 30, 2019 at book-blog.com
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March 2019: Book notices
Christine Carbo, The Wild Inside Amazon The Wild Inside is the first in a series of police procedurals by Christine Carbo. The book is written in the first person and follows Ted Systead, a special agent with the Department of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 31, 2019 at book-blog.com
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February 2019: Book notices
Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner Amazon This is the first in Dean Koontz's five-book Jane Hawk series. Jane is an FBI agent who takes a leave of absence to investigate her husband's mysterious suicide. Turns out, he's not the only... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2019 at book-blog.com
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Christendom College
Intensive Greek (full immersion) Christendom College in northern Virginia and the Polis Institute are co-organizing an intensive ancient Greek course for anyone who wishes to develop active competence in ancient Greek. Two levels are planned: one for absolute beginners and... Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2019 at Summer Classics
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January 2019: Book notices
T.M. Logan, Lies Amazon Joe Lynch has the best of intentions when he innocently follows his wife's car into a hotel parking garage. But his plan to surprise her leads to an altercation with the man she is there to... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2019 at book-blog.com
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December 2018: Book notices
Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart The Dark Heart is a true crime story about the murder of a wealthy Swedish Farmer, Göran Lundblad, in 2012. The book follows the official investigation by the police into Lundblad's disappearance, but it focuses... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2018 at book-blog.com
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October 2018: Book notices
James Hankins, The Prettiest One I got this book as a Kindle First selection apparently almost two years ago and finally got around to reading it. It was just okay. A woman wakes up from a fugue state with blood... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2018 at book-blog.com
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August 2018: Book notices
Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo is an enthusiastic declutterer--enthusiastic, perhaps, to the point of madness, but charmingly so. I have long been trying to achieve the kind of serenity she seems to live in, my... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2018 at book-blog.com
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8.43 The Peloponnesians together contributed 89 ships. Of these, 16 were Spartan and 40 were Corinthian.
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Posted Aug 14, 2018 at The Twitter Herodotus
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July 2018: Book notices
Tim Tigner, The Lies of Spies The Lies of Spies is the second full-length novel in Tim Tigner's Kyle Achilles series. The fate of the world is at stake again, and Achilles is just the right larger-than-life guy to set... Continue reading
Posted Jul 31, 2018 at book-blog.com
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