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Our guest this week, Kika Hatzopoulou, grew up in Greece with the foundation of Ancient Greece and its mythology all around her. She now lives in London and until recently was an acquisitions editor for a Greek publisher, where she read and recommended books being published in the US and Britain for acquisition and translation for Greek audiences. She tinkered with the idea of writing a book herself, combining the Greek mythology stories she learned as a child with the detective stories and gritty noir that she loves reading. The result is Threads that Bind.

The novel Threads That Bind is about three sisters who are descendants of the Fates (also known as the Morai), the three mythological sisters who hold everyone’s destinies in their hands via threads. Io, the youngest sister, is a private investigator who discovers that someone is kidnapping women, tampering with their threads and essentially turning them into zombies. She has numerous potential suspects from Greek mythology: the Furies, the Oneroi (who control dreams), the Graces (who bestow artistic gifts on humans), and the Keres (who are the spirits of violent death). It is a novel that opens up a world of mythological characters you may not know much about.

A sequel to Threads that Bind titled Hearts that Cut comes out in summer 2024.

In addition to being our novelist guest, she also serves as this season’s global reader since we talk to her about Greek education and writers. She also turns the tables on us during the Fast and the Furious, the first guest to have ever done so, and we were unprepared.

You can find Kika at her website at https://kikahatzopoulou.com/ and on Insta at @kikahatzapoulou

For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover.

Books Mentioned in this Episode:

1- Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

2- Hearts That Cut by Kika Hatzopoulou

3- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

4- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

5- Frindle by Andrew Clements

6- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

7- Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

8- Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

9- Suddenly a Murder by Lauren Munoz

10- Orpheus and Eurydice (the original Greek myth)

11- Lore by Alexandra Bracken

12- Girl Goddess Queen by Bea Fitzgerald

13- Mythology by Edith Hamilton

14- Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

15- The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

16- Simon & the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

17- What Bees Want: Beekeeping as Nature Intended by Susan Knilens

18- The Scholomance Trilogy by Naomi Novik

19- The Prison Healer by Linnette Noni

20- Wesley Yorstead Goes Outside by Stephanie Harper

5 Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Fabee @devouredpages

1- The Ill-Made Mute by Celicia Dart-Thornton (and all of The Bitterbynde Trilogy)

Movies mentioned--

Rear Window (1954)

Theatre mentioned--

Hadestown

Solutions to Violence features Kyle Ellison September 25th, 26th and 27th. Kyle Ellison has dedicated most of his adult life to service in Kentucky Criminal Justice System. Articles and speeches composed by Kyle Ellison demonstrates an extraordinary knowledge of Kentucky’s criminal justice system.

Crime and Safety was the topic of the League of Women Voters Louisville Democracy in Action monthly meeting, held Sept. 18, 2023. Panelists were David James, Deputy Mayor for Emergency Services, Louisville; Whitney Austin, who co-founded the Whitney/Strong organization after being shot 12 times during a mass shooting in Cincinnati; Cindy Heine, League member and liaison to the KY State Legislature; and Tip Moody, former felon, current League member and voting rights activist.

KSPH chairperson participates in a panel discussion hosted by Joni Eisenberg, host of the radio show To Heal DC from WPFM FM in Washington DC

https://archive.wpfwfm.org

Doctors Mike Flynn and Gene Shively discuss the prevention of adolescent violence with the leadership team at nonprofit SPAVA - Dr. Doris Mann, PhD, Dr. Timir Banerjee, and Mark Hudson, Board President

Rob Weber interviews Faith Boa (Georgetown College) about her research on heat tolerance in two species of spiders (Orchard Spiders: Leucauge venusta and Stone Spiders: Pardosa lapidicina). Then Jade Coxon (Purdue University) updates us on the ins-and-outs of recycling plastic. Finally, J Scott Miller fills us in on the stars, constellations, planets, meteor showers and eclipses we can see in the night sky in the month of October.

‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly radio program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal

On this week’s Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, takes a dive into the ocean with Nicole Ebert, Senior Project Administrator at Ocean Legacy Foundation, joining us from Vancouver, Canada. The Ocean Legacy Foundation has just received funding for ghost gear collection and processing technology following severe Atlantic storms.

The Ocean Legacy Foundation is an internationally recognized organization that develops and implements worldwide plastic pollution response programs. They have received $551,270 in funding from the Ghost Gear Fund, a federally funded program led by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The funding will be used to expand existing networks across Maritime provinces, develop infrastructure, and increase local material management capacity with skill-based training for marine plastics within Atlantic communities. Ocean Legacy will establish rope shredding and bailing capacity in Truro, Nova Scotia, in partnership with Scotia Recycling, support Coastal Action and partners in performing outreach and material collection as well as work with Full Circle Plastics to continue developing lumber products made from materials collected during cleanup efforts.

“Strategically managing marine plastic waste and pollution across Canada while developing local capacity is absolutely critical in restoring sensitive coastal habitats, preserving vulnerable aquatic species and stimulating socio-economic development in communities recovering from natural disasters,” said Chloé Dubois, co-founder, Ocean Legacy Foundation. “Catalyzing solutions which decarbonize Eastern Canada’s economy will continue to cultivate the necessary global leadership to curb the detrimental impacts of global atmospheric carbon emissions. We are grateful to have received this funding and will continue to collectively make the largest impact we can with local community.”

The Ghost Gear Fund is a federally funded program led by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, intended to support Canada’s commitment to prevent and mitigate the risk of ghost fishing and encourages the development of sustainable fishing practices, particularly as it applies to abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) domestically and abroad. This work is being carried out as part of the Government of Canada’s broader commitments to support national and international efforts to reduce plastics in our oceans and the use of plastics in government operations, as well as to reduce the occurrence and effects of ghost gear around the world. To date, the Ghost Gear Fund has funded 91 projects, for a total of $26.7 million.

This funding from the Ghost Gear Fund will be utilized by March 31, 2024.

For more information about OLF, visit https://oceanlegacy.ca/

For more information about the Ghost Gear Fund, visit https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fisheries-peches/management-gestion/ghostgear-equipementfantome/program-programme/index-eng.html

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! is hosted by Dr. Justin Mog and airs on Forward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is courtesy of the local band Appalatin and is used by permission. Explore their delightful music at http://appalatin.com

On this week's Truth to Power, we bring you an important community conversation about the Ever-Shifting Landscape of Climate Misinformation. Organized by Covering Climate Now (https://coveringclimatenow.org/), this July 13, 2023 discussion moderated by Amy Westervelt features:

1. Melissa Aronczyk, professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University and co-author of the book "A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism" (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-strategic-nature-9780190055356?cc=us&lang=en);

2. Jennie King, head of Climate Research and Policy at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and co-founder of Climate Action Against Disinformation (http://www.caad.info); and

3. Marco Silva, senior journalist for BBC News, specializing in climate change disinformation, in conversation.

For more, see https://www.isdglobal.org/explainers/commercial-disinformation-product-service/

On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else!

Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at http://forwardradio.org

K.A. Owens interviews Angela Cooper: Communications Director of the Kentucky - American Civil Liberties Union. Angela updates the community in regards to the various programs and activities of the KY-ACLU. Recorded Friday September 22, 2023, 2PM.

Patty and Brian discuss change and some of the big thinkers who have discussed it, like Heraclitus from Ancient Greece!