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So-so, just wasn‘t feeling it. Obviously I can‘t really remember what I would have done aged 9 in these circumstances, but I‘m pretty sure it wasn‘t what this kid did 🤷â€�♀ï¸�.

I loved this. Set during a heatwave in 1970s rural Italy, a young lad stumbles across a boy trapped in a hole. I don‘t normally like books from kids points of view but this was done so well (like Lord of the Flies or Mockingbird). This will stay with me a long time.

Our protagonist is a 9-year-old boy & he has found a body in a hole in an abandoned building…The prose reads like poetry. The plot is as bleak as the landscape. Animal imagery woven throughout to illustrate that sometimes we can‘t fight our deeper nature. It would be tempting, as an author, to include the grown-up world and it‘s motives/actions, but I think that would‘ve ruined it. This is first person and we only know what Michele knows.

Finding books on my shelves that have authors with names starting with N... because I‘m amazing at procrastinating 🤪

#7Days7Books
Books that have left a deep impression and changed me
DAY 4: Io non ho paura (I'm not scared)

More I'm not such than I'm not scared. The book had so much promise but it was just abit boring for me. Loved Niccolo Ammaniti's style of writing though, so it gets a so so��
It makes me laugh when a book gets so many great reviews on Goodreads and I'm just like no it's not haha
#ReadingEurope2020 #Italy 🇮🇹 (13th country)

The Italian countryside is as lovely as I guessed it would‘ve. And the children are smart and good-hearted. Unfortunately all the men I met were horrible humans. This book is very good, but I am still surprised it is on the list.

#Reading 1001#1001books #BackpackEurope

Italy and this lovely cover.

Favourite School Read is a much harder question than say Least Favourite School Read which would have easily been Lockie Leonard... but #RiotGrams asks for favourite, and this one is still on my bookshelf.

1. In my bed, of course (Scotland) // 2. There's been a few good ones but really loved I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale // 3. The Help, Kathryn Stockett // 4. All of the books in the Mystery series by Enid Blyton // 5. The Harry Potters // 6. The super secret book that Ally Carter is working on which I think is set for release in 2018! ------- have you done this tag? Let me know! #letstalkaboutbooksbaby

I really like this italian writer. His books surprise me every time. #rockinmay #scenesfromanitalianrestaurant

Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.