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  1. 3 days ago · Kairos (Ancient Greek: καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning ‘the right or critical moment’. . . . It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for ‘time’; the other being chronos (χρόνος). Whereas the latter refers to chronological or sequential time, kairos signifies a good or proper time for action.

  2. 3 days ago · Six Degrees of Separation: from Kairos to …. This month’s #6Degrees, hosted by Kate from Books are my Favourite and Best starts with Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann. This week is NAIDOC week, so I thought that I’d use First Nations books to riff on the meaning of the word Kairos — which Google Translate tells me ...

  3. 3 days ago · One novel that explores this is Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan. I never know where I will end up when I start each 6 Degrees of Separation. This month, I began in 1980s Berlin, traveled to the Domenican Repulic and New York in the 1960s and onto Western Australia in both the 1950s and 1980s before visiting France and Italy during the ...

  4. 3 days ago · From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Directed by Trip Cullman (Significant Other, Yen), the revival of John Guare's critically acclaimed play Six Degrees of Separat...

  5. 3 days ago · This is a fascinating novel exploring slavery on a Maryland plantation through the eyes of a woman from 1976 who travels back in time to the 1800s. Another time travel novel, also with a one-word title, is Mariana by Susanna Kearsley (2), although the setting is quite different. Our heroine, Julia Beckett, moves into a lonely farmhouse and ...

  6. 3 days ago · It’s time again for Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to…

  7. 3 days ago · Six Degrees of Separation is a meme hosted by Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best. It works like this: each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six others to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the titles on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain.