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

LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

Never heard of it; I'll see if I can manage to find it!

Alannah wrote: "I have attached my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I wonder if my rating would have been higher if this was my first book by Hannah. It felt like I was reading anothe..."

Totally agree!
"The setting and historical context provide an interesting backdrop, but at times, the story can feel a bit formulaic" - exactly my feelings

Well done all of us!

I find it not a "good" book - but an interesting one.
It's not a "new" idea that women - or black for all that matter - are invisible (Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison docet). And LGBTQ+, natives, immigrants...
But it's again, always this way: what bothers is simply ingnored... When will we be free to do what we can and want? Be what we are?

"The world might be changing, but we women are still second-class citizens. And Black women. Well. You do the math."

I find it not a "good" book - but an interesting one.
It's not a "new" idea that women - or black for all that matter - are invisible (Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison docet). And LGBTQ+, natives, immigrants...
But it's again, always this way: what bothers is simply ingnored... When will we be free to do what we can and want? Be what we are?

"The world might be changing, but we women are still second-class citizens. And Black women. Well. You do the math."

Having finishe dthe really interesting The Women for our group read, I've started The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny, one of my favourite contemporary writer

I'm inside old Scotland with Outlander and in Vietnam with The Women!!! All over the world reading books!

I nominate Omer Friedlander The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land

My Tot pag 1083 post 24!

Alessandra wrote: "I loved an Italian book

Le ventisette sveglie di Atena Ferraris

and this is my 5 stars review
https://www.goodreads.c..."

So high? I didn't like it so much; I'm rather a fan of Alice Basso, but this particular book I've found a bit too...constructed, if you see what I mean; Now I'll go and see what you've written!

I think that I'll get over this: really a great book, but not one I'd like to re-read soon! I'll come and give a look at what you think about it, though

I've finished it, and re-liked it a lot (I had already read it, even if I have to admit I didn't remember much)
I've liked the idea of these women with a "normal life" on their own, proud of it, not looking for a husband to acquire meaning. Doing what's right because it's right...

Great!!!
Count me in!

I'm in!!!
Here are my reads:

Alice Munroe Dear Life pag 186
Jung Chang Cigni selvatici: Tre figlie della Cina pag 540
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Address Unknown pag 77
Diana Gabaldon  Outlander 1 pag 139
Alessia Gazzola Miss Bee e il cadavere in biblioteca pag 141

Tot pag 1083

Greg wrote: "I started this yesterday, and it's not anything philosophically deep yet, but it's immensely entertaining!"

Isn't it???

Great Job!

I second The Winter of Our Discontent

9 Agatha Christie Curtain: Poirot's Last Case ***1/2
10 Giovanna Manzini Ritratto in piedi ***
11 Benedetta Colella Indagine su ullisse ***
12 Stacey Abrams Rogue Justice: A Thriller ***
13 Elif Shafak There Are Rivers in the Sky ***1/2
14 Serena Venditto Sette vite come i libri: Indagine per quattro coinquilini e un gatto ***1/2
15 Sara Durantini Pampaluna (Dalia Narrativa Vol. 1) ***
16 Cassian Folsom THE LITURGICAL BOOKS OF THE ROMAN RITE ***

Alice Basso Le ventisette sveglie di Atena Ferraris Reading Now
Barbara Pym Excellent Women Reading Now
Tirzah Price  Sense & Second-Degree Murder Reading Now

Started Excellent Women, just the first chapters; liking it quite, but I've discoveredI had read it already and liked it a lot!!!

Ruth wrote: "I nominate One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest By Ken Kesey"

I second this