This is Debra Hamel's Typepad Profile.
Join Typepad and start following Debra Hamel's activity
Debra Hamel
North Haven, CT
Recent Activity
Book Notices | Sleeping with Schubert by Bonnie Marson / The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
Bonnie Marson, Sleeping with Schubert Amazon Liza Durbin was in the women's shoes department at Nordstrom's when she was inhabited—literally, not figuratively—by the spirit of Franz Schubert. She sat down at the store's baby grand piano and played a piece... Continue reading
Posted Dec 29, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | The School of Night by Louise Bayard
Louis Bayard, The School of Night Amazon In this 2010 novel, Louis Bayard twists the story of a modern treasure hunt around a centuries-old romance. "The School of Night" refers to a secret group of 16th-century intellectuals—among them Sir Walter... Continue reading
Posted Nov 30, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens / The Givenchy Code by Julie Kenner
Chevy Stevens, Never Knowing Amazon The premise of this book kept me reading: An adopted woman's search for her birth parents goes about as badly as it possibly could when she finds out that her father's a serial killer and... Continue reading
Posted Nov 8, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith, The Right Attitude to Rain (Book 3) Amazon Things are heating up in Edinburgh! (And in Dallas, for that matter.) And love is in the air, at least for a couple of happy couples. This time out,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett / Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning Amazon I've been reading Ken Follett's novels for some 40 years. Used to be, he was the one author whose books I'd snatch up the moment they were published. I kind of fell... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | True Story by Michael Finkel
Michael Finkel, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa Amazon Shortly after Michael Finkel was fired by the New York Times for journalistic misbehavior, the story of a lifetime fell in his lap. A man named Chris Longo was in police... Continue reading
Posted Oct 2, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | Drowning with Others by Linda Keir / Arsenic Under the Elms by Virginia A. McConnell / A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
Linda Keir, Drowning with Others Amazon Andi and Ian Copeland were the "it" couple at Glenlake Academy. Twenty years and one seemingly perfect marriage later, their daughter Cassidy is a senior at the prep school. But when a car is... Continue reading
Posted Sep 29, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | The Man on Table Ten by Luke Smitherd / Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson / A Dangerous Thing by Josh Lanyon / The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith
Luke Smitherd, The Man on Table Ten Amazon Luke Smitherd's novella The Man on Table Ten poses an interesting question: What would you do to ensure your survival if the fate of the world depended on it? Smitherd's story is... Continue reading
Posted Aug 31, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Main page
About Debra Hamel Debra Hamel studied classics as an undergraduate at The Johns Hopkins University and again as a graduate student at Yale, where she specialized in ancient history. Since receiving her Ph.D. in 1996 she has published a number of scholarly articles and reviews as well as publications for... Continue reading
Posted Aug 27, 2020 at dhamel.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | The Ghost Writer by John Harwood / Half Broken Things by Morag Joss / High Crimes by Joseph Finder
John Harwood, The Ghost Writer Amazon John Harwood’s gothic novel The Ghost Writer centers on Gerard, a boy of 13 when the book starts, growing up in Australia, who begins a penpal correspondence with an orphaned English girl named Alice.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 31, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | The Rescue Artist by Edward Dolnick
Edward Dolnick, The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece Amazon In this very readable narrative, Edward Dolnick writes about the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch's Scream (or one version of the... Continue reading
Posted Jun 30, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | Into the Fire by Gregg Hurwitz / Killer Thriller by Lee Goldberg
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | Unf*ck Your Habitat by Rachel Hoffman
Rachel Hoffman, Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess 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... Continue reading
Posted Mar 31, 2020 at book-blog.com
Comment
0
Book Notices | In the Dark by Loreth Anne White
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | Lost Hills by Lee Goldberg
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
Comment
0
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | The Sleep Experiment by Jeremy Bates / Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay
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
Comment
0
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | Here to Stay by Mark Edwards
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | A Spy's Guide to Taking Risks by John Braddock / Recursion by Blake Crouch / Judgment by Joseph Finder
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson / What You Did by Claire McGowan
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan / Before He Finds Her by Michael Kardos / Killer Move by Michael Marshall
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
Comment
0
Book Notices | The One by John Marrs / The 24th Name, Part II by John Braddock / The Accident by Natalie Barelli
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
Comment
0
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
Comment
0
More...
Subscribe to Debra Hamel’s Recent Activity
Blogs and Sites