Litsy

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Liv‘s dad, who ran away to Greece, asks her to help him w/ his Atlantis documentary. When she gets there, she meets Theo, her father‘s charming “prod g”/assistant. Will she ever understand her dad? Will all the alone time w/ Theo led to something?

This one was cute. It was just a little slow & long for me. I also wanted a little more romance. It was interesting learning more about theories on Atlantis tho

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merelybookish

My Family and Other Animals | Gerald Durrell, Jocelyn Potter

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Was fun to escape to Corfu with the Durrell family for a while. Was surprised at how often I chuckled aloud while reading, also how well the TV miniseries (which I watched a few years ago) adapted it.
And ticked off another prompt for the #192025 challenge. @Librarybelle
Meanwhile more snow in the forecast for tomorrow. 😑

Librarybelle A snowy day is a good day to escape to Corfu! 6d

CSeydel Ahhh I‘m reading this right now too! It‘s so good 6d

Sparklemn I adore that show. It‘s a comfort watch. 🥰 6d

Cathythoughts We get snow once in a blue moon.. and never like in your picture. So I love looking at it 🤍 6d

Centique WOW. that is a lot of snow! 😍 5d

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ImperfectCJ

Fire from Heaven | Mary Renault

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I'm not feeling this one right now. I suspect I added it to my TBR for my kids at some point because it's more their thing than mine. Maybe I'll revisit it at some point, but I'm setting it aside for now. One down for #Roll100! Not a very satisfying way to mark it off, but it does get it off my TBR.

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Octoberwoman

The magus: a revised edition | John Fowles

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

#ABookADay2025

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Ididsoidid

August Blue: A Novel | Deborah Levy

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A great companion for a Mediterranean trip. August Blue is alluring, hard to put down and sprinkled with witty humour and biting social commentary. I have a sense that a little too much goes left unsaid to really understand what‘s going on, and I didn‘t get particularly invested in Elsa‘s narrative; we join her following THAT performance when she is trying to redefine and reassess who she is. Ultimately the dreamlike prose pulled me along. 7/10

Ididsoidid Lots of quotable lines, but I felt this one really punched: “There were wealthy people telling her how the pandemic had made everyone aware how people like her were truly valuable.
It had never occurred to her, she said, that she wasn't valuable.” (edited) 3w

Sparklemn Wow - that quote is disturbing 😖 2w

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Robotswithpersonality

Glorious Exploits: A Novel | Ferdia Lennon

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I LOVED this book. And yet, I immediately feel the need to very sparingly recommend it, because it's one of those ones that I would not have thought I would love, if I knew what it was before I read it. Sure, the ancient Greek part, the discussion of Euripides' plays is a draw. I can get on board with bringing a smaller scale, down-to-earth focus on a few characters to historical or 'from the distant past' events, 1/?

Robotswithpersonality especially when the narrative voice, the way character's speak to each other is approachable. In this case there's a discernable UK (author is from Dublin, now lives in England and I've no idea what speech patterns are from where) palaver; since I've no idea how conversational, idiomatic ancient Sicilian/Greek would actually sound if translated into English, this works well in sounding different from my modern North American English, 2/? 3w

Robotswithpersonality 3/? but still relatable, intelligible. When it's done well, I can also appreciate an occasionally darkly humourous bent on a dire situation, not quite satire or cynicism, in the face of man's inhumanity towards man. What surprised me was the author's skill in brining out the complexity in a frequently unlikeable narrator, making Lampo live and breath, see the flaws and the pettiness and the flashes of a better friend, of a deeply insecure being 3w

Robotswithpersonality 4/? with so little opportunity for hope that would motivate better action. Gelon is the most in focus portrait of loss, though his tale of woe is refracted throughout the Syracusan community and the Athenian prisoners. The violence done on both sides, the brutality and cruelty that sadly, doesn't belong just to an earlier era, creates a sharp contrast with the choices made by the protagonists. Lennon never lets you forget that this story centres 3w

Robotswithpersonality 5/? around tragedies in one sense or another, and yet still leaves room for hope, for the possibility that people as individuals can choose to take an action that will improve the lives of others. It's not a mood mashup because it's seamless. It's not the dark comedy the cover would suggest; that doesn't mean the dialogue isn't frequently entertaining, but the conclusions are often sobering. 3w

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 If I described how I felt at the end I think it would be a spoiler, similar to the Syracusans' love for the art of an invading nation, let's just say it was complex.
⚠️details prisoner of war conditions, grief, child loss, slavery 3w

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BookmarkTavern

D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths | Ingri D'Aulaire

Watching the nibling for the afternoon, and they‘re doing a Greek mythology thing at school, so it‘s time to bring out the book I got for Christmas when I was their age. ❤️

RamsFan1963 I loved this book as a kid, the beginning of my love for Greek Mythology, and mythology in general. I checked it out from the library so often I felt like I owned it. 3w

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emilycoc

Murder in Mykonos | Jeffrey Siger

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Fantastic read for me!

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CSeydel

My Family and Other Animals (Revised) | Gerald Malcolm Durrell

#whereareyoumonday
Spending a moment on the beautiful island of Corfu this morning

#snowedin @Texreader

willaful I could be in Spain, but honestly, the book sucks. :-( 1mo

CSeydel @willaful oh no! 1mo

BarbaraBB I could use some Greek sun 😀 1mo

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emilycoc

Murder in Mykonos | Jeffrey Siger

Very excited for this one! Greece was my first European country that I visited and I spent some time on Mykonos (pictured below!) I bought this for myself ages ago after seeing it in a Greek travel group on Facebook, but I'm only getting to it from my TBR stack now. #BookTwoOf2025

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