Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#florence
review
Graywacke
Innocence | Penelope Fitzgerald
post image
Pickpick

I‘m learning Penelope Fitzgerald was a special writer. Fell in love with The Blue Flower earlier this year, and have now read this one - a bad good marriage in 1950‘s Florence with a doctor too rational to acknowledge his emotions. Ok, that‘s humble. Now hand it over to Penelope and her backhanded, almost absurd, striking lines. 🥰

Suet624 I‘ll have to check this out! 7d
Graywacke @Suet624 it‘s great stuff. Penny is awesome. 7d
sarahbarnes I haven‘t read her yet, although I have a copy of Offshore. This sounds good. (edited) 7d
Graywacke @sarahbarnes I would like to read Offshore. This one was fantastic. 7d
52 likes1 stack add4 comments
review
kspenmoll
post image
Pickpick

August 1963.Florence,Italy,a deserted city. Searing heat. Bleary-eyed,sleep deprived Inspector Bordella,a chain-smoker in his mid-50s.Biting hordes of mosquitoes torment him at night.Flashbacks to his years as a soldier in WWII are interspersed throughout.His new police protégé is coincidentally the son of his soldier partner.A highly unusual,deviously clever murder of a wealthy, elderly Signora.A wonderful,eclectic cast characters:semi-retired?

kspenmoll 🔼petty thieves,the Signora‘s eccentric mouse-loving brother, the grumpy forensic pathologist,among others. 2mo
44 likes1 stack add1 comment
blurb
kspenmoll
post image

It‘s only Monday, but what a day at work! Popcorn, Sam Adams October Fest (split with my husband), & a book. He is making dinner.🧡

dabbe He\'s a good man. 🖤🧡🖤 2mo
kspenmoll @dabbe Thank you for noticing! He is! I am lucky, he loves to cook. 2mo
dabbe @kspenmoll My husband does, too! In fact, he is the COOK in the family. I\'m the dishwasher and baking-pies gal. I\'m lucky, too! 🖤🧡🖤 2mo
mcctrish What a great end to a Monday ❤️❤️ 2mo
57 likes1 stack add4 comments
quote
bookwyrm7
A Room With A View | E.M. Forster
post image

"Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there? To be driven by lovers - A king might envy us (...)". In "A room with a view", by E. M. Forster.

quote
ChelseaM6010
A Room with a View | Edward M. Forster

First line: “The Signora had no business to do it,” said Miss Bartlett, “no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way apart.”

blurb
peanutnine
post image

Samantha thanks so much for my #jolabokaflod gift!! Sorry for the later post, I was at my sister's today and forgot to open it before I left this morning. I'm looking forward to reading this book and the chocolates are my favorite 🤤😋
#jolabokaflodswap23 @sblbooks @MaleficentBookDragon

sblbooks You're welcome! This book is on my TBR as well, so I'll be interested in your review. 12mo
49 likes1 comment
review
JenReadsAlot
post image
Pickpick

After my trip to Italy I wanted to learn more about this family.

review
BookmarkTavern
The Passion of Artemisia | Susan Vreeland
post image
Pickpick

The life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman accepted into the Accademia dell‘ Arte in Florence.

What a lush novel! The way Vreeland paints a beautiful scene, and an unflinching portrait of a passionate and ambitious and flawed woman. Also loved the attention paid to Artemisia‘s process and artwork. I definitely had to look up every single painting as I read. Will be seeking out more of Vreeland‘s work! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

BookmarkTavern The first three chapters deal with the aftermath of Artemisia‘s rape by her painting instructor, her public trial, and the torture she endured for her testimony 14mo
TheSpineView Great job! 14mo
dabbe 🖤🎃🖤 14mo
Catsandbooks 🙌🏼🦇🧡 14mo
59 likes5 comments
review
CaitlinR
The Traitor's Mark | Derek K Wilson
post image
Pickpick

Serendipity lead me to this novel at the Library, it‘s been around for a while. I do enjoy a good historical mystery, and this generally fits the bill, although the historical premise is a bit shaky. Wilson posits a fictional reason for the disappearance of Hans Holbein in 1543 that involves the (factual) Prebendaries Plot to bring down Thomas Cranmer and restore Catholic rule. I enjoyed “meeting” his protagonist, London goldsmith Thomas Treviot.

review
rabbitprincess
Three Fires: A Novel | Denise Mina
Pickpick

Hm maybe a low Pick. I LOVE Denise Mina and will read pretty much anything she writes. I love the idea behind this and the choice of subject matter. It read very quickly, and the details are well chosen. But I feel I might have got more out of it if I knew even a tiny bit about Florence in that period. I certainly learned a fair bit; before this, I knew The Bonfire of the Vanities only as the title of the novel by Tom Wolfe.