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

LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

I nominate Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

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Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Have a nice tripp Greg!!! Lots of picts!!!"

Thanks Laura! I did take a ton of photos, but I haven't had time to post anything yet. I'll post some in a day or two. It was a great tim..."

We're here waiting Greg! Whenever you've got time to spare!

Thanks Rosh

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Updated my post (n. 9) with my total: tot 681

I plan to listen to some audiobooks I've "in stall":
Holly Jackson As Good As Dead
Elizabeth Peters Crocodile on the Sandbank
Nita Prose The Maid
Robert Hellenga Love, Death & Rare Books

I will definitely read those following, since I've got presentation and/or Group Reads in my library:
Sara Durantini Annie Ernaux. Ritratto di una vita
Tove Ditlevsen Youth
Tove Ditlevsen Gift

A part from those I hope to have time this month - but I have too many things to do, so I don't really know how much free time to read I'll have a part from those titles above - to read at least some of these:
Louise Penny The Madness of Crowds
Winston Graham Ross Poldark
Joyce Maynard Labor Day
Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice

Greg wrote: "The "What Have you Read?" folder had gotten so big that some people were having trouble opening it. Here is a fresh thread for new posts.

Here is a great place to let us know what books you've re..."

Well done Greg!
I've just finished The Benefactress . I like the way Elizabeth von Arnim writes and her stories. Also this one was a good book, but the ending was a bit abrubt, too swift. She could have explained better!!!

I'm in!

Shirley Ann Grau The Keepers of the House 34
Elizabeth von Arnim The Benefactress 238
Alessandro Robecchi Follia maggiore 175
Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery 102
Alessandro Robecchi I tempi nuovi 6 132

tot 681

21 Laura Marx Fitzgerald The Gallery pag 352 ***
22 Piergiorgio Pulixi La settima luna 3 pag 400 ***1/2
23 Holly Jackson A Good Girl's Guide to Murder pag 433 ***
24 Irene Nemirowsky Il vino della solitudine pag 245 ***1/2
25 Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt La parte dell'altro pag 470 ***1/2
26 Alessandro Robecchi Torto marcio 4 pag 415 ***1/2
27 Holly Jackson Good Girl, Bad Blood pag 417 ***1/2
28/185 Leonardo Varasano nazione pop 9788849874235 pag 156 ****
Shirley Ann Grau The Keepers of the House pag 320
Elizabeth von Arnim The Benefactress pag 418
Alessandro Robecchi Follia maggiore pag 390
Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery pag 283

Catching up; I'll be here again in a day or two - hopefully!!!

Read in the years of UNiversity, not really wanting to re-read it. I'll se what you think of it. A strange novel indeed!

Nidhi wrote: "The story telling reminds me very much of Marquez's One Hundred years of Solitude."

True! I've barelly started it, but I do agree

Have a nice tripp Greg!!! Lots of picts!!!

Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "What did you think of The Aeneid Greg? I've not loved it at all - and in Italy we had to read it through during our hig school first year. I much preferred The Iliad or, to some exte..."

We, thank's God, read it in Italian translation. Still, I find it more "constructed" than the meandering The Iliad

I'mactually "listening" to Good Girl, Bad Blood, the second title of the series A good Girl's Guide to Murder. Not bad, for a YA Mystery

Alannah wrote: "I haven't managed to start this book just yet. Currently working on an essay right now which is due tomorrow night. Once I get it submitted I hope to get stuck in for a break before I get started o..."

I'm a bit late as well; I hope to be able of starting it by the beginnning of next week!

Greg wrote: "My pleasure Jenny! I like to comment as I read along too so I know what you mean. And for sure I'm having some distractions from worldly duties too. :)

I wouldn't call myself well versed in mythol..."

What did you think of The Aeneid Greg? I've not loved it at all - and in Italy we had to read it through during our hig school first year. I much preferred The Iliad or, to some extent, The Odyssey

Jenny wrote: "Laura, I didn't know this even existed! (Really liking the books) What is it called?"

Three Pines.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15351648/

Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Also in Italy has been really cold these last few days - -2/-3 C (I know, it can be much worse, but for me it's absolutely terrible!!!

Laura, does some of Italy have a typically yea..."

North of Italy the weather is more or less like in London: cold in Winter - it snows quite a lot, especially in the Alps, nice and warm - it can be really hot sometimes - in Summer.
More or less the same where I live - Central Italy: Florence, Siena, Bologna, Rome.
The south of Italy can be warmer: from Napoli down, it rarely gets under 5/8 °C (a part from Puglia - Bari, Lecce - that facing the Balkans can be very cold sometime; it snowed there a week ago for instance). Sicily, Sardinia are definitely warmer. Still not as nice as California (I remember being there by the end of October beginning of November and I went around without socks. That's hardly possible here). But the weather is changing; in Sicily was really hot something like a month ago: there were people at the seaside sunbathing (and someone also having a swim)