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I'm reading this book for a mystery reading group I'm a part of. Never thought I would finally read this book through this avenue. But maybe it will inspire me to also finish Don Quixote.

"What a nosy thing she is," a side character says to the main character Monica about another character. I had to laugh. Are you serious? What about Monica? Monica immediately goes to the murdered woman's mother, who has Alzheimer's, and asks if she knew her dead daughter was pregnant? Or calling the bank to see if the woman had someone else's name on her account? Kettle meet black.

hydrarchy, a general label for the revolutionary fulcrum of dangerously radical social ideas represented by the Atlantic maritime community. I wish there was a citation here because this is another writer who based a lot of his theory on argument that people who worked on boats were a dangerous democratic element that threatened the aristocratic landed group, I thought, without enough evidence.

As with so much of the early history of the North, these developments had their roots in the gradual decline of the Western Roman Empire, and in the changes that rolled over Scandinavian societies as the imperial inst. to the south contracted or failed.

Usually assumed 1st Viking raid was in 793 at Lindisfarne. But archaeological evidence shows raids at least 40 years before to the East, and the Baltic

A part of the Viking soul, was a female spirit--always female, even for a man. How marvelous, and how utterly subversive of the male-focused stereotype, that every single Viking man literally had a spirit-woman inside him.