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false <![CDATA[A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171103763m/87473.jpg 87473 7 He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity for romantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she has packed up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando—“the stranger,” as she calls him—and live in that achingly lovely city in which they met. Vibrant but vaguely baffled by this bold move, Marlena is overwhelmed by the sheer foreignness of her new home, its rituals and customs. But there are delicious moments when Venice opens up its arms to Marlena. She cooks an American feast of Mississippi caviar, cornbread, and fried onions for the locals . . . and takes the tango she learned in the Poughkeepsie middle school gym to a candlelit trattoría near the Rialto Bridge. All the while, she and Fernando, two disparate souls, build an extraordinary life of passion and possibility. Featuring Marlena’s own incredible recipes, A Thousand Days in Venice is the enchanting true story of a woman who opens her heart—and falls in love with both a man and a city. 1024188 2002 A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle) total:600|5:99|4:194|3:203|2:77|1:27| 600 2061 909 152 2 1 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue May 08 14:47:33 -0700 2007 Tue May 08 14:51:48 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 29 22:13:22 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 22:15:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 13:52:47 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 13:54:06 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:37:36 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 15:40:09 -0700 2009 A Thousand Days in Venice is a memoir describing how De Blasi, a divorced, middle-aged American chef, met and married her Italian husband in Venice. The romantic traveler in me looked forward to this story with relish, but the book was difficult for me to finish because De Blasi's style is train-of-...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 19 04:14:48 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 04:14:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 16:54:58 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 13:30:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 23 04:26:44 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 04:26:44 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 03:57:54 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 11:44:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 10:07:23 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 10:16:27 -0700 2009 If you love Venice and you love Italian food (and who among us does not), this is a fun ro...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Aug 26 11:42:34 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 11:43:41 -0700 2008 3 0 true false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 14:05:02 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 14:33:24 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 31 20:24:30 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 20:25:03 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 16:15:44 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 05:31:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 16:13:25 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 12:07:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 16:15:16 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 16:22:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 09:10:22 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 12:39:31 -0700 2009
How do I describe this book? The words are meant to be tasted, not merely read. The story is so beautiful, the language so full of the romantic. The descr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 11 12:59:19 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 13:02:19 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:35:32 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:38:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:32:17 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:36:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Jul 28 16:29:36 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 18:09:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=87473