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

LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

So they're here.
I sincerelly don't know what to hope anylonger!!!
I miss going around, seeing people, swimming...
Let's cherish our books at least

194 Giacomo Papi Happydemia pag 176 Read ***
195 Elisabeth Cleghorne Gaskell My Lady Ludlow pag 240 Read ****
196 Sergio Martini Vascelli di carta pag 200 Read ***
197 Cristopher Bollen A Beautiful Crime pag 400 Read ***
198 Domenico Starnone Confidenza pag 152 Read ****
199 Michelle Cohen Corasanti  Come il vento tra i mandorli pag 348 Read ****
200 A.J. Cronin The Citadel pag 432 Read ****
201/184 Alice Basso La ghostwriter di Babbo Natale: Un racconto di Natale di Vani Sarca pag 40 Read ***

FINISHED!!!!

More than a book a day!!! How could you manage!!!!
Really well done

I'll be reading it a little later I'm afraid, but I'll definitly read it!

David James Poissant La casa sul lago
A.J. Cronin The Citadel
Sean Michaels Us Conductors
Angela Carter Wise Children
Anna Sòlymon Il caffè dei gatti: Non ti servono 7 vite puoi essere felice in questa
Elisabeth von Arnim The Solitary Summer Reading
Ovidio L'arte di amare Reading
Elsa Morante La storia Reading

I still have to think about what will be my next books; probably starting with
Gervase Phinn The Other Side of the Dale

I'm in of course!!!!
And to make this go on as long as possible, I'll choose a writer I like, but with a LOOONG name!!!!

E Elisabeth von Arnim Elizabeth and Her German Garden Read
L Henry Lawson While the Billy Boils Read
I Isabel Allende Donne dell'anima mia Read
S Elsa Morante La storia Read
A Jeanine Cummins American Dirt Read
B Francesca Serra Le brave ragazze non leggono romanzi Read
E Eudora Welty The Optimist's Daughter Read
T Teresa Ciabatti Sembrava bellezza Read
H Matt Haig The Midnight Library Read

C A.J. Cronin The Citadel Read
L Tomasi da Lampedusa Lighea Read
E Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other Read
G Delphine de Vigan, Le gratitudini Read
H Jane Harris Sugar Money Read
O Ovidio L'arte di amare Read
R Roal Dahl My Uncle Oswald Read
N Alice Basso Non ditelo allo scrittore Read

G Gioconda Belli La donna abitata Read
A Elisabeth von Arnim The Solitary Summer Read
S Sean Michaels Us Conductors Read
K Katharine Kilalea Ok, Mr. Field Read
E Eugenio Corti Il cavallo rosso Read
L Davide Longo Il caso Bramard Read
L Nella Larsen Quicksand Read

Here I am!

January - Elsa Morante La storia *****
February - Elisabeth Cleghorne Gaskell Wives and Daughters ****1/2
March - Gioconda Belli La donna abitata ****1/2 and Rupi Kaur Home Body and The Sun and Her Flowers *****
April - Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other ****1/2
May - Giovanni Dozzini Qui dovevo stare **** (I have also read William Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ***** but he's "out of competition"!!)
June - William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury, Miriam Mafai Pane nero: Donne e vita quotidiana nella Seconda guerra mondiale and Giorgio Fontana Morte di un uomo felice Kris1980 All ****
July - Hanya Yanagihara A Little Life *****
August - Fernando Aramburu Patria ****1/2
September - Rupi Kaur Milk and Honey and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists ***** and Americanah ****1/2
October - Eshkol Nevo, Tre piani ****
November - Ugo Baduel L'elmetto inglese and Massimo Zamboni La trionferà both ****
December - Paul Scott The Jewel in the Crown ****1/2

Best of the year - not one; i'ts impossible!
I'd say Elsa Morante La storia, Rupi Kaur Home Body for poetry, one Shakespeare for theatre, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists for essay

Back to work - from home!
All holidays are past, and now we're waiting that also this COVID folly will go away, to star living again!

Leslie wrote: "LauraT wrote: "My favourite by her. But I'm starting not before the end of this month!!! I'll catch up though"

LOL - I just came to this thread to say the exact same thing!"

We're real kindred spirits!!!!

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Happy new year of books to all of us!

At the moment I'm on variuos books:
Elisabeth von Arnim The Solitary Summer Reading
Ovidio L'arte di amare Reading
Elsa Morante La storia Reading

My favourite by her. But I'm starting not before the end of this month!!! I'll catch up though

Started, and now I start writing down the books:

1 David James Poissant La casa sul lago pag 352 Read ****
2 A.J. Cronin The Citadel pag 432 Read ****
3 Sean Michaels Us Conductors pag 464 Read ***
4 Angela Carter Wise Children pag 240 Read ***
5 Anna Sòlymon Il caffè dei gatti: Non ti servono 7 vite puoi essere felice in questa pag 147 Read ****
6 Elisabeth von Arnim The Solitary Summer pag 190 Reading
7 Ovidio L'arte di amare pag 120 Reading
8/184 Elsa Morante La storia pag 672 Reading

Udated my total - post n. 25:
Tot 1398

And also this Christmas has gone!!!!

tight

Here I am, closed in lockdown as all Italia from tomorrow to the Epiphany!!!!
Sorry it took me so long to write my total down, but I've been busy re-organizing my books at home and I've spent little time on line!!!
Anyway, here I am:
La Storia 120
Come il vento tra i mandorli 244
Wise Children 40
La ghostwriter di Babbo Natale: Un racconto di Natale di Vani Sarca 40
The Citadel 410
La casa sul lago 310
Christmas at Thompson Hall: A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale 82
Confidenza 152
Tot 1398

Nice !!!

You may be right Nidhi; still I think it was pretty clear what she intended for a final of the book.
We'll see it together!