dely in 2017: books and challenges

[Ahtims]

dely wrote: "After 3% of The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil I give up.

I started an Italian edition but it was full of missing letters and sometimes also entire words were ..."

MAJOR ENVY
Am not free.. in fact I am shackled more than I ever was. :/

[dely]

52) Il bottone di Stalingrado by Romano Bilenchi ★★☆☆☆

No English edition.

The book talks about a young guy that during his adolescence follows Fascism, but then realizes it isn't what the thought. There are the first years of Fascism, the war, and then the years after the war in Italy.

It's a too short book so both the story and the characters aren't well depicted.

It's an old book I had at home and that I hadn't read yet.

Only Italian: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[dely]

53) L'avventura d'un povero cristiano ★★★★★

English edition: The story of a humble Christian by Ignazio Silone

The book is written like a play but it reads like fiction. It talks about Pope Celestine V, how he became Pope, why he was it only for a couple of months, and what happened next.

The author puts in this book the difference between the Church as a constitution and a humble believer. The Church corrupted and who wanted always more power, the believer following the Gospels.

I don't think it's a book only for believers, because the story of this pope and that of the Church could be interesting for anyone. It is set at the end of the 13th century and the author wrote it after several researches about this pope.

This is another one of those old books I have at home and that I don't remember if I have already read in the past and forgot about it.

[dely]

My year in books: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...

Stats:

read 50 books
pages 17,042
longest book: The Complete Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen with 1,044 pages

best fiction: The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and The story of a humble Christian by Ignazio Silone

best non-fiction: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle