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I have LOVED Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler how does Inv..."
I haven't read any other book by Calvino. Invisible Cities I think is wonderful in terms of structure, since it consists in conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Kan and short texts where Marco Polo describes cities which are imaginary but reminiscent of real cities somehow. You can just open it at random and read an individual city and enjoy it as much as if you read it linearly.

I have LOVED Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler is structured as 10 opening chapters of 10 different novels interupted with interludes of a male and female reader. So, Invisible Cities sounds similar in that it has a unique structure. I'll put it on my TBR list. Thanks




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Treasure Island -Stevenson
Both fast-paced adventure tales. I was slightly let down by the accents in Treasure Island. They were good but after reading Rob Roy by Scott, I had high expectations for coarse, pirate exhalations (much like the rich brogues found in Scott's novel).

Mansfield is brilliant.
I just..."
I wasn't able to get it as a book, but found an audio book of it. It's beautiful to listen to.

This is going onto my favourites shelf, it's just sooo amazing!!
A very long story full of other stories. Within these pages you shall find; enchantments, murders, thieves, magicians, animals and rocks that are really people, mermaids, royalty, magic carpets, magic lamps, magic artifical apples..... and a hole lot more!




It's a special book, isn't it? I loved it when I read it last year.

Mansfield is brilliant. ..."
Mansfield is, indeed, brilliant!

This is going onto my favourites shelf, it's just sooo amazing!!
A very long story full of other stor..."
Thanks for the encouragement here! I've been putting this one off..... well, all my reading life!



I liked it very much too.







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