What Should I Read Next?

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I agree with "The Help"

[Marg]

Maureen wrote: "I just finished The Winter Sea and really enjoyed it. It is set in Scotland and switches back and forth from current times to the early 1700's."

I seriously recommend The Winter Sea to everyone. One of my friends told me recently that they had never had a book recommended to them so enthusiastically before!

[Marg]

Lindsay wrote: "Thanks Jackie and Heather! Bother are on my TBR list. After I finish trucking through Kafka I'll read both!"

I would recommend Elizabeth Chadwick. She is strong on history, but also has really lovely romances in her book as well.

[Amy]

Help! I'm looking for a book set in Italy between 1900 and 1950. This book will help me complete one of the tasks in the current challenge. However, I'm struggling to find a few. Of course, this time period does contain both world wars and I'm definitely interested in those time periods, especially ww2. I am also interested in historical mysteries and romance and the subjects of art and architecture. Any suggestions would be very apprciated!

[Jackie]

The English Patient is the only one I can think off the top of my head. I read it in high school and I can't say I really liked it, but I know Heather did.

[LemonLinda]

One that is on my TBR list for that time period is A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell. It is set during the end of WWII and is a novel based on the true story of Italians helping their fellow Jewish Italians to escape from the hands of the Nazis. I have not yet read it but own it and hope to get to it soon.

[Maude]

Amy, I read A Thread of Grace and love her writing and characterizations. This would be a good book for you but I have to say there is a great deal of sorrow so you may want to find something else.

[Chrissie]

Amy, That Summer in Sicily: A Love Story would fit your requirements and it is really wonderful - romance, history, and Sicily! Here is mt spoiler free review for TSIS: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... I gave this book 5 stars.

I too have read A Thread of Grace, but the former book has such a unique story to tell! And a surprise ending. Here is my spoiler free review of TTOG: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... . I gave this book 4 stars.

Another tremendous book is A Soldier of the Great War which takes place during WW1 and my review; http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... I gave this 6 stars too.

[Elizabeth La Lettrice]

Amy, read Miracle at St. Anna - what a great story! And after - and only after - see the movie! It was so nicely done; it's truly one of my favorites. I'll have to think of some other suggestions as I got my Master's in Italian Studies so this should (in theory) come very easily to me.... :)


I guess there's also the classic - A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway!

I'll get back to you if I think of some more.

[Chrissie]

Love and War in the Apennines. This is another good one.

[Shelley]

Southpaw, depending on your tolerance for Victorian literature (I love it), try the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope. One of the most interesting marriages in literature: Lady Glencora.

Shelley
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