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Karahan Tepe site overview where there's an ancient kitchen

Ancient Kitchen, Hunter-Gatherer Neolithic style

Enjoy a tour of a Neolithic kitchen complete with grinding stones, ovens, and the hunter-gatherer equivalent of a refrigerator. And some recipes of Greek food to get you in the mood for my about-to-release novel, Achilles’s Wife. Have fun.

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Murder on the Nile by Verity Bright: Book Review

In this humorous spoof of the cozy English murder mystery, Lady Eleanor Swift is off to Egypt where she’ll come upon a murder, of course. This is, after all, the 19th book in the series, so clearly this young woman cannot stay away from suspicious corpses. This is a good one for extremely light fun, which is kind of what some of us need these days. Enjoy my review.

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The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Book Review

Here’s my review of The Bewitching, a spellbinding gothic horror and winner of an Editors’ Choice award when my review appeared in HNR. Have fun with my review and a thought-provoking novel.

Book cover image Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab: Book Review

Here’s my review of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by one of my favorite fantasy authors V.E. Schwab. I concluded this review thus, “the literary virtuosity glues the reader exquisitely to each page.” Enjoy!

Site of "real" Trojan War

Yearning for a “real” Trojan War

There’s an allure to the idea that we can lay our hands on proof that a Trojan War was real–and all that we associate with that. But there’s danger in that yearning. Where should the boundaries of history, archaeology, and myth lie?