Windhaven ‘Windhaven’ is a book co written by the best-selling author George R.R. Martin and the acclaimed author Lisa Tuttle. It is a collection of three novellas and it was first published in 1982. It tells the story of Maris, a young girl from a poor family living in the fictional planet Windhaven, who wants to be a flyer. Flyers are flying through the planet’s islands and their mission is to spread the news and deliver messages. They have silver wings, that pass from the established flyer to his oldest child. When Maris was a teenager, she was adopted by a flyer that he gave her his wings in order to be able to fly. ‘Windhaven’ is a well-written imaginative story, full of suspense and, at the same time, with valuable lessons to be learnt. What I liked the most in this book was that, even if the scene is set in a fictional planet, the story itself is not a sci-fi one. It also generates beautiful images of the described places in the reader’s mind. Overall, ‘Windhaven’ is a thrilling book that can be read in a night. I highly recommend it.

Timon of Athens Last weekend I attended the theatrical play Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare. The play is put on by National Theatre of Greece and it is well directed. The plot goes back to the ancient Greece and at the end it comes out that people take advantage of a man in his bright moments and forget him when he is in need.