LauraT’s Comments (group member since Aug 06, 2013)

LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

23 Eduardo Scarpetta Miseria e nobiltà pag 92 ***1/2
24 Goldie Goldbloom On Division pag 288 ***1/2
25 Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead pag 711 ***1/2
26 M.C. Beaton The Blood of an Englishman pag 294 **1/2
27 Julio Cortázar Bestiario pag 156 ***
28/140 Dorothy Strachey Olivia pag 135 ***
Stephanie Storey Oil and Marble pag 362
Barbara Perna Annabella Abbondante. Il passato è una curiosa creatura (La giudice ficcanaso Vol. 3) pag 443
Winston Graham The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815 pag 656

I've been told Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is an extramly good book - even if a bit long.
I'd like to nominate it!

Alannah wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Started Oil and Marble - but I'm not liking it at all; I'll write about it in the right discussion though"

Oh dear, I have it waiting in my audible app. But it looks..."

But you may like it!!! Listen to it and then we'll talk. I find discussion more interesting if we are not of the same opinion!

Started reading and I have to confess that, if it wasn't for this Reading in Group, I'd have left it there after 50 pages. I'll wait a bit and explain why I'm so drastically against it, which is strange for me!

Alannah wrote: "Just managed to get The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver through Audible in a two for one sale."

I've listened to Demon Copperhead in storytel and it was extreamly well read; I think it could be the same edition! I've read The Covenant of Water last year, and loved it!

Started Oil and Marble - but I'm not liking it at all; I'll write about it in the right discussion though

Speak

Some ideas - I don't think I'm going to read all of them - and I'll probably add some other titles. But just to start thinking about...

Winston Graham The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815 Listening now
Winston Graham Bella Poldark 12
Anna Nerkagi AnikoRead
Grazia Deledda Cosima
Pearl S. Buck Lettera da Pechino Readinging now
Alba de Céspedes L'anima degli altri
Barbara Perna Annabella Abbondante. Il passato è una curiosa creatura (La giudice ficcanaso Vol. 3) Read
Elena Molini La piccola farmacia letteraria Readinging now
Elena Molini Piccola libreria con delitto
François Morlupi Formule mortali
François Morlupi Il colbacco di Sofia: La nuova indagine del commissario Ansaldi
William Shakespeare King Henry VI, Part 1
Stephanie Storey Oil and Marble Read
Jane Gardam Old Filth
Juan Gómez-Jurado Tutto brucia
Elizabeth Strout The Burgess Boys
Michael McDowell Gilded Needles
Zadie Smith The Fraud
John Steinbeck East of Eden

I'm reading Olivia by Dorothy Strachey, of the Bloomsbury group; interesting.
Anche along with it, a nice cozy mystery by an Italian writer: Annabella Abbondante. Il passato è una curiosa creatura (La giudice ficcanaso Vol. 3)

Here I am!

These my reads for the week end:
Goldie Goldbloom On Division pag 148
Pearl S. Buck Lettera da Pechino pag 31
Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead pag 61
M.C. Beaton The Blood of an Englishman pag 201
Winston Graham The Twisted Sword: A Novel of Cornwall, 1815 pag 137
Dorothy Strachey Olivia pag 123
Barbara Perna Annabella Abbondante. Il passato è una curiosa creatura (La giudice ficcanaso Vol. 3) pag 93

Tot pag 794

Leslie wrote: "I just finished Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, a darkly humorous book about the publishing industry and the way social media influences it & of course, as the title imp..."

By her I've read Babel, and appreciated it quite; I'll look for this then!

I'm in - don't know when, but I'm in. One of the best book ever

Time for a re-read of this!!!

Leslie wrote: "Thanks Laura - that helps somewhat.

I was intrigued by Tommy Waddell's idea about the government and financial institutions historically encouraging negative stereotypes about rural people due to..."

I was thinking the same Leslie: in Italy it is definitly like this, and I wondered if it was really so also in USA

Harry Potter is definitly a nice series to re-read, every now and then!!!
At the moment I've started On Division by Goldie Goldbloom, strongly suggested by a book friend of mine.
But today I'm all day at work, and tomorrow in the afternoon I've an engagement at my library... don't know when I'll be able of entering into it well

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Finished a couple of days ago Khirbet Khizeh: A Novel. I think that especially now, it should be read worldwide...

I finally found it!!! I was not sure at all abouti it; I'm in then!!!

10 Anonimo Storia di un tagliabambù pag 101 ***
11 James McBride The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store pag 385 ****
12 Riccardo Santagati Ricordi di un delitto pag 205 ***
13 Elisabetta Cametti Il regista. 29 ore per non morire pag 380 ***
14 Marina Sereni I giorni della nostra vita: Voci femminili ritrovate vol. 1 pag 250 ****
15 Han Kang L’ora di greco pag 163 ***
16 W. Somerset Maugham Up at the Villa pag 209 ***1/2
17 Stephen King Finders Keepers pag 544 ****
18 Elisabetta Cametti Caino pag 482 ***
19 S. Yizhar La rabbia del vento pag 82 *****
20 Stephen King End of Watch 3 pag 482 ***1/2
21 M.C. Beaton Something Borrowed, Someone Dead pag 304 **1/2
22/140 Claire Keegan Foster pag 128 ***1/2
Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead pag 711
M.C. Beaton The Blood of an Englishman pag 294
Toni A. Brizi Il gioco dei giorni narrati pag 384

Leslie wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Leslie wrote: "I am about a third of the way through. I like all the subtle references to David Copperfield (Mrs. Peggot vs. Peggotty for example). However Kingsolver's ..."

It's a sort of "snippets" of sentences...For instance_

"It’s football. Take that out of high school, it’s church with no Jesus"
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"This lady looked like she’d gone to prom in the eighties and got frozen, big hair, big shoulders. Scary. (LOL; what my daughter always sauìys to me about my youth!)"

My people are dead of trying, or headed that way, addicted as we are to keeping ourselves alive. There’s no more blood here to give, just war wounds. Madness. A world of pain, looking to be killed.