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Feb 13, 2023 09:09AM

110440 wolf
;)!
Feb 13, 2023 01:44AM

110440 sea
Feb 13, 2023 01:43AM

110440 Greg wrote: "Jenny wrote: "Hello again! After a really long absence from here and a severe reading slump I am slowly getting my nose stuck in books again. (Quite literally, as my long reading-hiatus hasn't obli..."

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!!!)
Feb 13, 2023 01:42AM

110440 Jenny wrote: "Hello again! After a really long absence from here and a severe reading slump I am slowly getting my nose stuck in books again. (Quite literally, as my long reading-hiatus hasn't obliterated my tic..."

So glad to see you back Jenny!!!!
Feb 09, 2023 11:03PM

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Feb 08, 2023 11:26PM

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110440 Alannah wrote: "I nominate Another Country by James Baldwin"

I second this one
Feb 07, 2023 12:51AM

110440 Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Greg wrote: "Yes, so glad you enjoyed it Laura. I hope your daughter's health is improved as well. How are your children doing?"

Marta is, for the moment, well. No one can assure us..."


Thanks again
Feb 06, 2023 11:41PM

110440 Greg wrote: "Yes, so glad you enjoyed it Laura. I hope your daughter's health is improved as well. How are your children doing?"

Marta is, for the moment, well. No one can assure us that the splenectomy she underwent now three years ago will be effective for ever. But it's pointless to live with fear. We'll see if and when it will change.
Max has started studying again, and we hope for the best! Thanks for asking
Feb 06, 2023 11:39PM

110440 plain
110440 Dale wrote: "
The Girl on the 88 Bus by Freya Sampson
5 stars."


So good? I'm intrigued!
Feb 06, 2023 07:06AM

110440 Christine wrote: "I’m going to be busy this spring and this summer"

Which plan? I only want to warm up under the sun
Feb 06, 2023 07:05AM

110440 Thanks Christine, really good time, also in Milan with my daughter
Feb 06, 2023 01:03AM

110440 8 Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry pag 400 ***
9 Alessandro Robecchi Dove sei stanotte pag 350 ***
10 Christopher Morley Parnassus on Wheels 1 pag 160 ***
11 Arno Saar/Alessandro Perissinotto Il treno per Tallinn pag 166 ***
12 Christopher Morley The Haunted Bookshop2 pag 253 ***
13 Elizabeth Jane Howard Odd Girl Out pag 341 ****
14 Piergiorgio Pulixi L'isola delle anime 1 pag 431 ***1/2
15 Alessandro Robecchi Di rabbia e di vento pag 416 ***1/2
16 Arno Saar/Alessandro Perissinotto La neve sotto la neve pag 252 ***
17 Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human pag 248 ****
18 Piergiorgio Pulixi Un colpo al cuore 2 pag 506 ***1/2
19 Farian Sabahi Noi donne di Teheran pag 90 ***
20/185 Mahsa Mohebali In Case of Emergency pag 168 ***

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt La parte dell'altro pag 470
Piergiorgio Pulixi La settima luna 3 pag 400
Holly Jackson A Good Girl's Guide to Murder 2 pag 433
Feb 06, 2023 01:02AM

110440 Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "And we're starting to see the end of Winter - at least on our emisphere!!!"

More beach time coming! :)"


YEEE!
Feb 06, 2023 01:02AM

110440 Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "I'm about to start for Genova - tomorrow early morning - to see an exhibition on Rubens"

Enjoy Laura! :)"


Back again. But I really had a great time, and also the weather has been really good and warm, especially considering this time of year!
Feb 06, 2023 01:00AM

110440 January Piergiorgio Pulixi La libreria dei gatti neri and Elizabeth Jane Howard Odd Girl Out ****
Februay Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human and Leonardo Varasano nazione pop ****
March Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt Monsieur Ibrahim e i fiori del Corano ****1/2 Sara Durantini Annie Ernaux. Ritratto di una vita ****
April Louise Penny A World of Curiosities ****1/2
May Winston Graham Demelza and Elizabeth Gaskell Ruth ****
June Elizabeth Strout Lucy by the Sea ****1/2
July Winston Graham Warleggan ****
August Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies ****
September R.F. Kuang Babel: An Arcane History ****
October Italo Calvino La giornata d'uno scrutatore ***1/2
November Colum McCann Apeirogon *****
December Adania Shibli Un dettaglio minore and José Saramago La vedova **** "(a part from William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, *****, but Billy is out of all competitions!!!)"


Best of the year Colum McCann Apeirogon *****
Feb 06, 2023 12:54AM

110440 Well done Alannah!
Feb 06, 2023 12:53AM

110440 Studio
Feb 01, 2023 08:52AM

110440 I'm about to start for Genova - tomorrow early morning - to see an exhibition on Rubens