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North Haven, CT
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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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8.2 The Greeks had 271 triremes at Artemisium. Their leader was the Spartan Eurybiades: the allies refused to follow anyone but a Spartan.
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Posted Jul 4, 2018 at The Twitter Herodotus
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June 2018: Book notices
Lee Goldberg, True Fiction TV writer and novelist Ian Ludlow is in Seattle plugging his latest Clint Straker thriller when he discovers that a terrorism plot he once conjured up has been turned into horrific reality, an attack on American... Continue reading
Posted Jun 30, 2018 at book-blog.com
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May 2018: Book notices
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven Station Eleven is a thought-provoking book about the end of the world—and the beginning of a new world. It follows the mostly separate stories of a handful of characters who are all loosely connected... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2018 at book-blog.com
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7.140 The Athenians had received a terrifying oracle from Delphi urging them to flee to the ends of the earth before the Persians invaded.
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Posted Mar 25, 2018 at The Twitter Herodotus
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Italian Institute for Classical Studies
Lingua Ecclesiae The Italian Institute for Classical Studies, in collaboration with the prestigious Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis, is launching Lingua Ecclesiae: the first intensive summer course directed specifically toward Ecclesiastics, and conducted entirely in Latin. Our students – priests, seminarians,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2018 at Summer Classics
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Italian Institute for Classical Studies
Lingua Ecclesiae The Italian Institute for Classical Studies, in collaboration with the prestigious Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis, is launching Lingua Ecclesiae: the first intensive summer course directed specifically toward Ecclesiastics, and conducted entirely in Latin. Our students – priests, seminarians,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2018 at Summer Classics
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Active (Ancient) Greek Institute
A unique opportunity to significantly improve your ability to read ancient and Koine Greek by learning to use the language actively. A three week program for all levels of Greek students to improve reading skills by actively speaking, writing and... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2018 at Summer Classics
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February 2018: Book notices
Joseph Finder, The Switch This is one of those stories where an average-ish Joe winds up in incredible circumstances that he has to deal with without any specialized training. Our average Joe is Michael Tanner, the CEO of a Boston-based... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2018 at book-blog.com
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January 2018: Book notices
Gregg Hurwitz, The Nowhere Man Evan Smoak is back in this follow-up to Orphan X. Evan is a government-trained black ops guy who uses his formidable skills to help the helpless, one job at a time. His life is necessarily... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2018 at book-blog.com
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December 2017: Book notices
Nancy Boyarsky, The Swap This book has a promising premise. An American couple, Nicole and Brad, swap houses with a couple from London for the summer, and unpleasantness ensues--Nicole is followed and threatened and soon swept up in an alarming... Continue reading
Posted Dec 31, 2017 at book-blog.com
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