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LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

I'll start it this coming week end

119 Stephen Becker A Covenant With Death pag 240 ***1/2
120 Sarah Savioli I selvatici pag 272 ***1/2
121 Bruna Manzoni Legami al buio pag 220 ***1/2
122 Layla Martínez Il tarlo pag 103 ***
123/184 Bernard J. Farmer Death of a Bookseller pag 288 ***
Angela Marsons Silent Scream pag 416
Marcel Huwyler La signora Morgenstern e il male pag 290
Antonio Scurati M. Il figlio del secolo pag 812

#freemarta!!!
(Marta is my daughter, and even if she studies away from home - Milan - I'm always going to see her. My friends have started the # free Marta because of that. Last year she went for the Erasmus Project in Norway, right in Trondheim. And I followed her even there!!!)

At the moment I'm looking to my next summer leave - but it won't start before the 14th of the month!!!

Updated my post (30) with my total of 5,430 pages!

Finished yesterday afternoon A Covenant with Death: A Novel by Stephen Becker. A really interesting crime, centered more on what IS justice (and following, what is life, love, relationships, sex...) beside law...

Great news!

I've never read anything by him. Could be a "good" occaion to ppick him up!

on line!

109 Satoshi Yagisawa Una sera tra amici a Jinbōchō pag 176 **1/2
110 Lilian Jackson Braun The Cat Who Could Read Backwards pag 256 ***1/2
111 Winston Graham Warleggan pag 490 ****
112 Mario Coletti Il gruzzolo pag 240 ***
113 Camilla Läckberg La strega pag 681 ***1/2
114 Charles Exbrayat La signora in tweed pag 216 ***
115 Lilian Jackson Braun The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern pag 224 ***1/2
116 Camilla Läckberg Il figlio sbagliato pag 448 ***
117 Bruno Gambarotta La confraternita dell'asino pag 111 ***1/2
118/184 Bruno Gambarotta Polli per sempre pag 191 ***
Stephen Becker A Covenant With Death pag 240
Sarah Savioli I selvatici pag 272
Antonio Scurati M. Il figlio del secolo pag 812

I'm planning to start it the very first days of August!

And I'm planning to read this as well!!!

Great!!! I really wanted to read this.
I think I'll start it by the end of August though!!!

Patrick wrote: "The Japanese novelist Morio Kita (1927-2011) acknowledged the inspiration of Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family for his massive family saga The House of Nire (765 pag..."

That is my favourite Mann!

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "As the title suggests, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies is an amusing historical fiction about the daring adventures of twin aristocratic sisters who risk more than the..."

Sounds interesting!

I managed to find it: I sincerelly hope to be here to discuss of it! By her I've only read The Namesake, and liked it quite.

savannah

Finished yesterday The Girl in the Woods by Camilla Läckberg. I've found it extreamely interesting, couse to the well constructed Mystery plot, she adds here - on all three temporal levels in the book (i.e. 1600, end of 1900 and nowadays) - the same "file rouge": all disaster come from fear, fear of what we deem different, of what we don't know...

parcel

At the moment I'm on "Mystery mood": started the The cat who series with The Cat Who Could Read Backwards and The Girl in the Woods, last but one of the Fjällbacka series. After that the last one, Il figlio sbagliato