Reading Challenge 2015-August

August was a difficult month.
There was too much coming and going to the city, there was surgery, there were sewage problems at the beach house and there is an on-going kitchen renovation at the city house.
So among all that I managed to read only one book and "unfortunately" it didn't fit any of the
So little sleeping and so much reading Challenge 2015 categories.
But it was a great book and I so enjoyed it. Matias, the little child who grew up to be an excellent doctor and an amazing perosnality and most of all a special human, accompanied me all through all this difficult month and made me relax and be patient. Because all lives have their difficult phases and we should just live through them.
So don't miss Scenes from the life of Matias Almosino by Isidoros Zourgos, a fellow teacher.

Surgery

I had gall bladder and gallstones removal (laparoscopic cholecystechtomy) last week and I am on the mend.
This hasn't been the best of summers after all!
Spotting beauty everywhere though!
Stairway to ....surgery.

 Old weathered door at the hospital.

 Flowers from a dear friend.

 Recovering under the trees.

And reading this exceptionally good book Scenes from the life of Matias Almosino
by Isidoros Zourgos, a fellow teacher.

I hadn't spotted the light till I uploaded the photo on Instagram. I am sure it's coming out of the book and not falling on it through the tree leaves!!!!!That's how good books are!

(Thank you to the surgeon, all the doctors, nurses and my family and friends who stood by me during this unexpected ordeal!)
This post is linked in Our Beautiful World.

Anemolia

One more book I just finished and really liked very very much is Anemolia a book in Greek by Isidoros Zourgos. The author is a teacher in my city and has written quite a few successful novels. I have read a couple and this one was really very good. It talks about the friendship men keep all their life, a life-long relationship with their childhood or school years' friends. It is the story of five men who escape one summer from their respective lives and travel on a boat to reach their dreams....
Anemolia in Homer's language means "words swept by the wind,unnecessary words".

 I managed to return the book to my friend who had lent it to me without even taking a picture, I don't believe it,still I remember that the picture of the boat on the cover had to do something with Dover.