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

LauraT’s comments from the All About Books group.

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Leslie wrote: "F: The Foundling by Georgette Heyer

I have been on a Heyer rereading binge recently, obviously :-)"

LOL

That's what we're doing these days: my son's birthday and my cousin's.
It's definitly not the same thing, but it is something though,,,

Leslie wrote: "I reread this book last month; I'm glad to see some other people enjoying it!

Kirsten - the Prime Video adaptation is pretty good. But I too love how Thackeray "breaks the 4th wall (so to speak)" ..."

Probably one of the best victorian novel ever!!! And Becky is he GREATEST heroine!

Really interesting Tamara. I had never heard of it; I'll look for it

I've started yesterday Shadowman; I have a lot to do at work but I hope to be able of finishing in 2/3 hours and to go on with it

Such a terrible time we're going through. I would have ever believd had I been described a similar situation one or two years ago.
Still I think you're doing the right choice. Let's hope the future will bring us a better time to share with those with love - and those we'd like to know better!
I'm really thinking that, as soon as this will be over, and as much as my financial situation will allow me, I'll be traveling around to meet those I still don't know in persone, and to see again those whom I could not see for a long while

Leslie wrote: "Katherine wrote: "Mandolorian"

I know that my brother has been enjoying this. Maybe I should check out Disney Plus so I can watch this..."

My daughter liked it a lot

I'm quite enjoying The English Game, a Netflix Series

E: Emma McChesney and Co.

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Is it possible?
Hard to tell; not this one!!!!

Trio: Storia di due amiche, un uomo e la peste a Messina by Dacia Maraini

In Italian we say "Altezza, mezza bellezza" - Hight half beauty!!!

He was really GREAT! And you even didn't mind he wasn't tall!!!!

Leslie wrote: "I think that my positive reaction was influenced by the fact that I had seen & loved the film version of The Old Man and the Sea with Spencer Tracy before I read the book, lol!"

That I loved a lot!!! But probably because I loved Spencer Tracy!!!

Petra wrote: "The Old Man and The Sea is the one we had to read in high school. It totally turned me off of Hemingway (or it could have been the teacher; she made a few books/authors unpalatable). I did listen t..."

Same for me: being written in a realativly simple English, it is usually suggested as starting book not in translation... probably too early

172 Bruno Gambarotta La confraternita dell'asino pag 112 Read ****
173 Tiffany McDaniel The Summer That Melted Everything pag 320 Read ****
174 Nicola Lagioia La città dei vivi pag 400 Read ****
175 Michael Ende La storia infinita pag 446 Read ****
176 Renata Viganò L'Agnese va a morire pag 274 Read ****
177 Rebecca Kauffman The Gunners pag 272 Read ****
178 Edna Farber The Homely Heroine pag 30 Read ***
179 Valentina Petri Il segreto di Piallato pag 40 Read ***
180 Dacia Maraini Trio: Storia di due amiche, un uomo e la peste a Messina pag 112 Reading
180 E. Phillips Oppenheim Nobody's Man pag 272 Reading
181/184 Elisabeth Jane Howard Falling pag 422 Reading

Leslie wrote: "I quite liked The Old Man and the Sea which I read 7 or 8 years ago."

Not really liked; but I was almost a kid...

Petra wrote: "I enjoyed Islands in the Stream. It was the first Hemingway book that I enjoyed reading.
Another one I enjoyed (but it was very bizarre) was The Garden of Eden."

Not read neither of them; the first one I even didn't know at all!!!