pick4+/5 ⭐
Giordano sa come creare storie e personaggi complessi. Qualcosa di questo libro però non mi ha presa al 100%, ma non so dire cosa... Forse avrei voluto di più: più descrizioni, più spiegazioni, più background stories e più dettagliate.
bailedI had to give this up, so many pages of names, names and more names of possible ancestors. I completely lost interest.
pickLo storico Barbero ci conduce in un viaggio nell'Italia comunale seguendo il più illustre personaggio dell'epoca e la sua complessa biografia. La lettura è documentata da fonti citate con minuzia e precisione. Recensione completa: https://www.instagram.com/p/CjDFqIYMjZC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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I narrowed it down to four: Aracoeli by Elsa Morante, The Aeneid, Ada by Nabokov, and The African by J-M G Le Clézio. I went with Aracoeli because it has no other posts.
This is a bitterly sad but beautifully written later novel by Morante. My response to the writing has stayed with me, even if most of the story hasn‘t.
Thanks for the tag, @batsy
@Ann_Reads @salderson107 - want to play?
#FirstLineFridays
I love First Line Fridays so much that I‘m just randomly pulling books off my Kindle or my bookshelf to sample them here. So no, this is not a book I‘m reading at the moment – that opening line sure gets my attention, though!
And for the avoidance of doubt, the word 'Settled' is indeed capitalized in the original.
pickI‘ve never read a mystery novel quite like this one (that‘s really saying something!). Set in a post-war Italian village, this mystery about a missing wife literally digs up some interesting evidence. I really liked the surprising gore that surfaces near the end! Signora Giulia‘s ghost will haunt me for some time. 👻 💎 🪓 ✉️
so-so#AnglophileApril Day 25: #DontGoBreakingMyHeart reminded me of this strange Italian novel about a young bride left on her own. There is a cohesion somewhere in the end that provided some comprehensibility, but that is not, I suppose what the novel aimed to do anyway. If you are into beautiful strangenesses with a taste of magical realism, the absurd mixed in with the profound, then this book might speak to you. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-fDG
