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

LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

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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.

Leslie wrote: "LauraT wrote: "So glad this was chosen!
I've been strongly recomended it. I've just started listening to it. It looks really nice and funny, if deep...we'll see how it goes on!"

I'm not seeing the..."

I mean the atmosphere, Damon describing his pals, his surroundings. As Saud in the other thread, Dicken's humor can't be equilsed, stioll I find this funny at bits

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 version doesn't seem to have t..."

Dicken's humor can't be equalised!

Greg wrote: "Nidhi wrote: "That is possible. If he could have ' saved' her, he would have tried to manipulate or influence her."

Hi Nidhi, this week has been crazy-busy at work, but I was finally able to leaf ..."

I totally agree with your insight Greg

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The language is really interesting

But hve you already read 40 books????

Cheryl wrote: "Another thing I liked about the book was that the author chose to focus on the postitive, even though she talked alot about death. It wasn't a depressing, angry outlook she had, but she focused on ..."

Indeed! Appreciated it as well

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Greg wrote: "There are several lucky breaks in the ending, such as Doc Roberts happening to fall into the well, but I enjoyed it regardless. After spending time with these people who went through all that they did, I wanted that happy ending for Nate, Dodo, and the others. McBride made me really care about them!"

That's it!!! I totally agree!

Nidhi wrote: "I like the writing, at chapter 8 narrator is 10 years old, so it is in the style as children speak... very funky. Sometimes that style is hitting hard with its sincerity.
I guess we are in for anot..."

It is indeed! I'm a bit ahead, and the hunger he's suffering in his foster home is devastating. I find interesting that, comparing things to XIX Century England, Kingsolver heints things are now not that better! His foster dad puttin David to work on rabbish !

Nidhi wrote: "Doc Roberts was a doctor, he was trying to get to feel Chona's body beneath her clothes to relieve her from trauma due to seizure....later he was himself surprised by the rumours. It is true that h..."

I think he was trying not to help, but to manipulate her if not actually raping her - she was a sort of fixed idea since school

Nidhi wrote: "I think it's just that they owe her a lot of money besides favours. Now that you mentioned Greg I feel Chona 's generosity earned her a good name, the way she helped children with marbles is unforg..."

I think so too

Kat wrote: "Those are on top of my list right now:

Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World
Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
[book:The Plantagenets: The War..."

I'm almost through the Poldar saga, and have appreciated it quite; the last ones are a bit far fetched; still very nice reads!