Did I mention to you how much I love this festival? There are so many interesting talks all the time that it’s hard to choose or not overdo it… Also, the subjects are so vary that they make my head spin… I wouldn’t be very good at being a specialist of any kind… I like …
(Useless fact: I can’t pronounce the word ‘literature’ properly, my tongue gets totally twisted) ANYWAY… the my favourite festival of the whole year is in town and it’s brilliant as usual… If you get the chance do go… even if it’s just to have lunch at the many food trucks or grab a coffee and …
Amongst all the wedding preparations, the ridiculous and unnecessary amount of food, the heat and the sock knitting (more about that at a later stage) I did manage to get my reading mojo back and read three really good books. This first one totally floored me. Mae gets her dream job at ‘The Circle, a …
After the book was published in 2006, Elizabeth Strout said this: “As a storyteller, I don’t think it’s my job to pass judgment on the people whose lives I imagine and record.” I think it totally sums up her writing. Her amazing capacity to create characters that transcends descriptions because they’re so real and deep …
Having survived my eldest going to Prom (awwwww… he looked so handsome…), and putting aside for the moment all packing decisions (the pre holiday laundry mountain needs to be tackled first) the only thing left for me to tell you about is a little something about the last two books I’ve read. First up a …
If you’re looking for good reads… I have two great recommendations for you. The first one: I have no idea why I picked up this book … it’s not my sort of read… and I can only think it was because of the title. ‘The Bookshop’, let’s face it, is there a reader/book lover out …
I caved in. Because I’m weak. I had to pop into Waterstone’s to get a new book for No 3… and that was it, my resolve of reading books in alphabetical order by author (and from my pile!!) vanished as soon as the smell of printed paper touched my nostrils. (horrible word ‘nostrils) Anyway, I’ve …
Diana Gabaldon, author of ‘Outlander’ It was inevitable. Not every book can be amazing and perfect, right? And this one is not awful, I’ve come across far worse, it’s just that I really really struggled to get into the story… so much so that I’d find myself playing sudoku in bed rather than reading and …
… this one took a while… I really enjoyed it, loved it even for like 75% of the time, (non sequitur: it took me about 43 seconds to find the % key… sigh) for the other 25% of the time I could have thrown it out of the window. On the Penguin’s website the summary …
Have you ever read ‘The name of the rose’? or you might have seen the movie with Sean Connery… “Stat rosa pristina nomine”… Same author. Umberto Eco, in English the title is “The mysterious Flame of Queen Loana”. I read it Italian because well, that’s the book I had and also it’s good to keep …
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