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

LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

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Leslie wrote: "LauraT wrote: "I'm half way through A World of Curiosities and I'm literally loving it!!!"

Yay! And how about Crocodile on the Sandbank? I saw in my update feed that ..."

Finished yesterday. Liked it quite - funny Peabody! I'm going on with the series, but in a while: it's on Storytel - audiobook - and now I want to go on with the Poldark saga!!! I've started listening to Demelza this morning! And it's almost 15 hours listening!

40 Satoshi Yagisawa I miei giorni alla libreria Morisaki pag 149 ***
41 Cristina Cassar Scalia Il Re del gelato pag 144 ***1/2
42 Louise Penny The Madness of Crowds pag 608 ****
43 Alessandro Robecchi Flora pag 286 ***1/2
44 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Piccoli crimini coniugali pag 144 ***1/2
45 William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor pag 368 ****
46 Maria Laura Antonini Ius sanguinis pag 196 ***1/2
47 Alessandro Robecchi Una piccola questione di cuore pag 384 ***1/2
48 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Monsieur Ibrahim e i fiori del Corano pag 111 ****1/2
49 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Il visitatore pag 129 ****1/2
50 Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice pag 422 ***
51 Josephine Winslow Johnson Now in November pag 300 ***
52 Winston Graham Ross Poldark pag 471 ****
53 František Langer Leggende praghesi pag 144 ***
54 Nita Prose The Maid pag 304 ***1/2
55 Octavia E. Butler Kindred pag 302 ****
56 Federico Maria Rivalta Un ristretto in tazza grande pag 270 **1/2
57 Friedrich Dürrenmatt Il giudice e il suo boia pag 121 ***1/2
58 Louise Penny A World of Curiosities pag 400 ****1/2
59 Allegra Groppelli Che il mondo ti somigli pag 317 ***1/2
60/185 Elizabeth Peters Crocodile on the Sandbank pag 337 ***
Marco Bucci, Riccardo Atzeni Saetta Rossa pag 224
Valeria Corciolani Acqua passata pag 332
Winston Graham Demelza pag 538

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Leslie wrote: "I think changeable weather is a feature of springtime!"

I know!
Still I'd love some "stable" sunshine

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Leslie wrote: "Steve wrote: "This book brings out my instincts to protect the vulnerable in a way that is very pronounced. It spurs my criticism of the corrupting influences in “society.” Our society is very diff..."

LOL!!! We are absolutelly of the same mind!!!

Greg wrote: "Only one spot in May to fill! Can anyone take it?

Thanks for the signups everyone!

1st May: Greg
8th May: Cleo
15th May:
22nd May: Alannah
29th May: Tumbleweed Words"

I may take it: the 15 then!

I'm half way through A World of Curiosities and I'm literally loving it!!!

Leslie wrote: "The weather here in New England has finally become spring-like and, of course, by Murphy's law, I have caught a cold :(

So the warmer temperatures are seeing me sniffle and cough... grumble, grumb..."

Here is really "changy": sunny one minute, cloudy the other. But rather chilly, with a cold wind - our "tramontana" - blowing fiercely!

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https://youtu.be/PTsSk0r_Tq8 (when I was young young young!!!)

Updated my post (n. 29) with my Tot Page for the whole Extended Read-a-thon 3457

Me too!

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Leslie wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Leslie wrote: "I am reading the French classic Madame Bovary. I have tried reading this before but never finished. I am over halfway through so fingers crossed that I can..."

Yes, I do agree in this as well!

Leslie wrote: "I haven't seen the TV adaptation so I would be curious to hear as well.

When I read this book before, I think that the fact that it had been described as science fiction influenced my reaction to ..."

spoko wrote: "LauraT wrote: “I’ve also started seeing the tv series newly out (at least newly in Italy) and I have to say that I like the comparison.”

I’m surprised to hear that, and I’ll be interested to hear ..."

Seen only the first two episodes.
Liking it so and so, definitlyn less than the book. Wanting to create at least 8 episodes, the plot has been to much complicated: the mother having done the same "time travel"... I want to see how it goes on...
Laughted at Kevin listening to music on his cell phone though!!!

Leslie wrote: "I haven't seen the TV adaptation so I would be curious to hear as well.

When I read this book before, I think that the fact that it had been described as science fiction influenced my reaction to ...
Like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court or Outlander, the time travel remains mysterious and basically a means of allowing the author to highlight differences between times and cultures. Thus I would categorize the book as social commentary and/or historical fiction, perhaps fantasy. I am hoping that this time rereading it with that idea in mind I will enjoy it more."

I totally agree: it is NOT at all, in my humble opinion!, a sci-fi novel: time travelling is a mere contrivance for the development of the plot: slavery seen from inside.
Dena, as black, has read/studyied slavery "in theory": to "live" it on her very skin is really different.
See here
I had seen people beaten on television and in the movies. I had seen the too-red blood substitute streaked across their backs and heard their well-rehearsed screams. But I hadn’t lain nearby and smelled their sweat or heard them pleading and praying, shamed before their families and themselves. I was probably less prepared for the reality than the child crying
or here
I moaned and tried not to think about it. The pain of my body was enough for me to contend with. But now there was a question in my mind that had to be answered.
Would I really try again? Could I?
I moved, twisted myself somehow, from my stomach onto my side. I tried to get away from my thoughts, but they still came.
See how easily slaves are made? they said.

I've finished our Group Read Kindred - now I go to the proper discussion.
Found it extremely interesting!

I'm almost half way through and I'm liking it quite; interesting, distressing, unnerving...
I've also started seeing the tv series newly out (at least newly in Italy) and I have to say that I like the comparison...