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

LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

Finished yesterday The Haunted Bookshop: nice little book on books amd WWI!
For those interested here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Umbria (!!!)

https://www.umbriajazz.it/

About to finish it; liking it even if I'm finding it a bit...foreseeable. And improbable at the same time: the kid too genial, the mother too self-aware...
Still funny in a way

4 Natalie Jenner Bloomsbury Girls 2 pag 370 ***1/2
5 Piero Dorfles Il lavoro del lettore. Perché leggere ti cambia la vita pag 252 ***1/2
6 Nadine Gordimer World of Strangers pag 267 ***1/2
7/185 Piergiorgio Pulixi La libreria dei gatti neri pag 300 ****
Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry pag 400
Alessandro Robecchi Dove sei stanotte pag 350
Piergiorgio Pulixi L'isola delle anime 1 pag 431

Nottingham

Great news Christine!

Started yesterday our Lessons in Chemistry; didn't have much time to read though, and today I'm at work all day long. Hopefully tomorrow afternoon

love

1 Francis Fukuyama Identità: La ricerca della dignità e i nuovi populismi pag 233 ****
2 Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearful Symmetry pag 488 ***
3/184 Pearl S. Buck Letter from Peking pag 252 ***1/2
Nadine Gordimer World of Strangers pag 267
Natalie Jenner Bloomsbury Girls 2 pag 370
Piero Dorfles Il lavoro del lettore. Perché leggere ti cambia la vita pag 252

Found it!
Hope to start reading it this coming week end - if I survive the first week of work of 2023!

My plan for the remain of the month!

Natalie Jenner Bloomsbury Girls Read ***1/2
Piero Dorfles Il lavoro del lettore. Perché leggere ti cambia la vita Read ***1/2

Piergiorgio Pulixi L'isola delle anime Reading now
Nadine Gordimer World of Strangers Reading now
Piergiorgio Pulixi La libreria dei gatti neri Reading now

Holly Jackson A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Jane Howard Odd Girl Out
Jonathan Gottschall The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
Elisabeth Åsbrink, Abbandono

My first book of last year! Deep, hard, TBR in my opinion. I'll see what you think of it in a while

swimming pool

Back at work - which is even worse than before (if that is possible!!!)
Anyway today is short day and I'm out of here at 2 pm!!!

Congratulations!!! My cousin had a baby girl just tow weeks ago!!!

At the moment I'm reading World of Strangers, struggling a bit, I confess

Esther wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Started reading Her Fearful Symmetry, seems interesting so far - but I'm right at the beginning"

I need to read that one."

In the end I've liked it to a point; not as much as I had anticipated

Updated only now my post (n. 6) with my tot of 2141 pages.
Sorry it took me so long, but I was away and gpt back to my computer only now!!!

185 John O'Hara Appointment in Samarra pag 251 Read ***
186 Claudia Gray The Murder of Mr. Wickham pag 400 Read *1/2
187 Natalie Jenner The Jane Austen Society 1 pag 336 Read ***1/2
188 Irene Vallejo Papyrus. L'infinito in un giunco pag 592 Read ****
189 Patti Smith Just Kids pag 304 Read ****
Francis Fukuyama Identità: La ricerca della dignità e i nuovi populismi pag 233 Reading now
Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearful Symmetry pag 488 Reading now
Nadia Fusini Un anno con Virginia Woolf pag 414 Reading now
Natalie Jenner Bloomsbury Girls 2 pag 370 Reading now

Started reading Her Fearful Symmetry, seems interesting so far - but I'm right at the beginning