I was looking for something from Zerocalcare set in #Italy for #FoodandLit and stumbled on the tagged book, about the democratic Yezidi self-governing enclave of Sinjar/Shengal in #Iraq, and couldn't pass it up. It's one of those places we hardly ever hear about. All you expect from Zerocalcare: self-reflective, left-wing, informative and depressing, with a glint of tempered hope.
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Finally posting my November stats
Eight books read last month, four were chunksters: two with 500+ pages and two with 400+ pages! Litsy challenges:
Curiosity Shop for #whattheDickens
Democracy for #authoramonth
Happy Isles for #Samoa and the remaining 5 for #Algeria for #foodandlit
This book is close to pointless, & its translation is puzzling in places. There are generic remarks about Italian medieval & Renaissance cookbooks & aristocratic food culture, a few pages about Da Vinci, whose links with food & banquets are actually tenuous, & some recipes in the original Italian, with unclear French translations.
#Italy #FoodandLit
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Revenge, served 32 years later, was very cold indeed!!
#Italy #Jubilee #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
Why knowing history can be helpful! He chose to be “Pope Innocent” instead of Eugenio. Good choice.
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pickIt‘s the 1950s in Italy, a country recovering from WWII. Valeria is 43, her children are grown up and she works and takes care of the family. Then she buys a notebook and from the moment she starts writing in it, she starts questioning everything in her life. Her marriage, motherhood, the expectations she had of her life. Is this all? The unrest grows along with her entries in her forbidden notebook.
pickA short book with a violent beginning. The ending is kind of weird as is always with a short book. #SnowyDecemberReadathon
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I've juste finished The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo's Oscar-nominated 1966 film based on Yacef Saâdi's book Souvenirs de la bataille d'Alger.
It's a bit late for #Algeria, but I'd run out of library streaming credits for November... It isn't a feelgood movie: I fast-forwarded some of the torture and battle scenes. Glad I saw it at last though.
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