Nemiche del cuore - The Other Side Of The Story, by Marian Keyes (2004, Ireland)

Here's the story of Gemma, living in Dublin, whose father (temporarily) leaves her mother for a younger woman and whose ex boyfriend Anton has now a love story with Lily, one of Gemmma's (ex) closest friends. Here's the story of Lily, who just fell for Anton despite her loyalty to Gemma and who can write good books (apparentely] only in bad circumstances. And here's the story of Jojo, the amazing sexy big brilliant Publishing agent who, despite everything, can't help being successful. Brilliant aand so ironic. [confidence, 2004] http://rubidu-2004.blogspot.it/

Baci da Malibu - Angels, by Marian Keyes (2002, Ireland)

Maggie's married to Garv: they go back a long way and used to be happy. But something changed and we'll find out step by step what. They split up and Maggie moves from Dublin to Los Angeles, to her best friend Emily: there, she experiences an out of mind time ...but in the end everything finds its place. Brilliant style and deep. [bacio, 2004] http://rubidu-2004.blogspot.it/

Il ciclo delle stagioni - Dark Hollow, by John Connolly (2000, UK)

Bird gets, despite himself, involved in the investigation of a kind of psycho killer that seems to have been around for tens of years: Bird's grandfather had already been working on this case. This killer usually kills women and leave them hanging from trees branches. Luckily there are Angel&Louis with Bird...and all of this helps him closer to Rachel. Unpredictable and deep. [a..thoughful, 2012] http://rubidu-2011.blogspot.it/

Every Dead Thing, by John Connolly, 1999 UK

Bird, Charlie Parker was once a Fed, but since the Travelling Man brutalized to death his wife and his daughter, he's looking for revenge. Many other people end up dying and in the end the man he was looking for turns up to be... Crude novel. [o.b., 2004] http://rubidu-2004-2.blogspot.it/

La rupe dei Troll - Troll Fell, by Katherine Langrish (2004, UK)

Peer's a boy whose father died and whose bad, giant, cruel uncles come out of the blue and pick him up to their mill. He gets to be a slave to them, surviving only thank to his dog, Loki, Hilde, a girl of the neighborhood, and to some of the peculiar creatures living there. Sad, but full of hope. [so.., 2009] http://rubidu-2009-3.blogspot.it/

Calliphora - Blow Fly, by Patricia Cornwell (2003, Usa)

Kay Scarpetta is no more working at Richmond police district: after Benton's death she's close to desperation. But Lucy and Marino know Benton's alive, a protected witness. Besides, Jean Baptiste Chandonne, the loup garoud, is not futureless, although in jail. In Lousiana, Chandonne family's rich in mysteries, far from been solved in this novel, which has to be continued... [metissage..b, 2009] http://rubidu-2009.blogspot.it/

Le vostre zone erronee - Your Erroneous Zones, by Wayne W. Dyer (1976, USA)

A guide to soul independence likely to drive to happiness. Seriously. [ok, 2005] http://rubidu-2005.blogspot.it/

L'ultimo scalo del tramp steamer - La ultima escala del tramp steamer, by Alvaro Mutis (1988, Bogota)

Our story teller works on ships and travels from Helsinki, to Jamaica, to Africa... and from time to time he sees in the harbours Alcion, an old fascinating tramp steamer. Finally, he also happens to work with Jon, the last captain of Alcion, whose story is linked to his love story with Warda, its owner. And that finished with the end of Alcion. Deep and slow. [cross point..wax, 2009] http://rubidu-2009-4.blogspot.it/

Mr. Zuppa Campbell il pettirosso e la bambina - A Redbird Christmas, by Fannie Flagg (2004, USA)

Oswald lives in Chicago, but his gp suggests him to go to a warm place, or his lungs won't get to Christmas. This is how he arrives to Lost River, an Alabama village with less than 100 people, but with a magic atmosphere that'll change Oswald's life. Nice. [pensiero, 2007] http://rubidu-2007.blogspot.it/

In piedi sull'arcobaleno - Standing In The Rainbow, by Fannie Flagg (2002, USA)

Dorothy holds a radio program, while her son Bobby and her beautiful daughter Anna Lee grow happy in a so nice place as it is Elmwood Springs. There are so many peculiar characters that's hard to find the true red line, which has to be Elmwood Springs itself, linking the shy Betty Raye from the gospel group, the ambitious Hamm Sparks, poor Tot, Norma and Macky, aunt Elner, Doc and many others. Peaceful and serene. [childhood, 2009] http://rubidu-2009-3.blogspot.it/

L'arte di sognare - L'art de reveur: guide pratique pour devenir un reveur actif, by Nicole Gratton (2004, France)

An operational guide to understand, analyze and even use our dreams to help our day life. Useful. [c..beyond, 2009] http://rubidu-2009-3.blogspot.it/

Miss Alabama e la casa dei sogni - I Still Dream About You, by Fannie Flagg (2010, USA)

Maggie is a not yet old lady living in Birmingham, Alabama, working as a realtor, single, very beautiful (she once was close to be miss America) and extremely kind. Her extraordinary boss, Hazel, was a really good presence, an enthusiastic dwarf who had the ability to get wherever and whatever in life. Brenda and Ethel, her colleagues, can't suspect Maggie is planning to leave this world. But something happened... So cloudless and joyful. [d, 2004] http://rubidu-2004-3.blogspot.it/

La spada della verità vol. I - Wizard's First Rule, by Terry Goodkind (1994, USA)

Richard lives in the West Land and he's fine with his life, although suffering for his mother and father's death. But Kahlan arrives from the Central Land, despite the magic Border: Darken Rahl is getting to control the all world and only the Searcher can stop him. Richard, Zedd (his friend, turning out to be the biggest wizard), Kahlan and Chase (the Border Guard), pass through many adventures, challenges, pains to halt Darken Rahl... [determinazione, 2008] http://rubidu-2008.blogspot.it/

Molte vite, un solo amore - Only Love Is Real, by Brian Weiss (1996, USA)

Brian Weiss is a therapist hit by the fact that his patients seem to regress to previous lives in different times and places: that's reincarnation. And souls bring with themselves some memories of those lives, so that some fears, pains or so in this life go back to other lives. Picking these memories out can help to untangle knots. Questions and fascinating points come out from this book. [c, 2004] http://rubidu-2004-3.blogspot.it/

Pane, cose e cappuccino dal fornaio di Elmwood Springs - Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! (by Fannie Flagg, 1998 USA)

70s. Dena is a beautiful and talentful TV star, unable to fall in love and with some troubles in her life (why did her mother suddenly disappear when she was a teen?). But some peculiar far relatives from a small place called Elmwood Springs, Missouri, and some other good people in New York and Alabama will save her, despite herself: aunt Elner, Norma and Macky, Gerry O'Malley, Elizabeth Diggers, Sooky... So nice, deep and peace giving. [ct, 2008] http://rubidu-2008-3.blogspot.it/

Intervista col vampiro - Interview with the Vampire, by Ann O'Brien Rice (1976 USA)

Night. Louis, the Vampire, tells his story to the boy recording. It's about sorrow, love, desperation. It's about Lestat, who created him in Louisiana, then Claudia, che child-vampire, the crime against Lestat and the searching through the old continent. And finally the theatre of vampires in Paris, where Santiago was the end of it all. And after that Louis is really damned, despite Armand. Dark and distressing. [Fashion zombie me, 2009] http://rubidu-2009-4.blogspot.it/

Stregoneria - Sourcery, by Terry Pratchett (1988, UK)

Rincewind is, despite himself, taken in the middle of a new adventure, an End-Of-The-World adventure: sorcery is back in the world and this means an epic magic war, Ice Giants' return, the end of everything. He's with Conina, the beautiful fatal warrior daughter of Cohen, and peculiar characters picked up on the run. The Sorcerer, Coin, is only a boy, but he's guided by his cruel father, living in his stick. Fun.

Anybody Out There, by Marian Keyes (2006, Ireland)

Anna Walsh is a beautiful 30-ish woman recovering from a bad car crash. When she goes back to New York (from her crazy parental house in Dublin) she can't handle Aidan's missing. Then a day she recalls: he's dead. It takes a long way to start living again, but she's surrounded by (peculiar) people loving her. Deep and engaging.

Il falco delle nevi - The Snow Falcon, by Stuart Harrison (1999, UK)

Michael once shot his wife's lover. He was out of mind, then, after a few years in jail, he got back to the village where he grew up, despite people's hostility, to discover his dead father. Cully is a falcon who, once shot by a hunter, gets her chance to live thanks to Michael. Jamie's father died a few years before and he's never spoken anymore since then. Their lives are linked, their chances to live again come together. Deep and fascinating.

Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman (1998, UK)

Reading the Entrails: A Rondel - An Introduction - Chivalry - Nicholas Was... - The Price - Troll Bridge - Don't Ask Jack - The Goldfish Pool And Other Stories - The White Road - Queen Of Knives - Changes - The Daughter Of Owls - Shoggoth's Old Peculiar - Virus - Looking For The Girl - Only The End Of The World Again - Bay Wolf - We Can Them For You Wholesale - One Life, Furnished In Early Moorcock - Cold Colors - The Sweeper Of Dreams - Foreign Parts - Vampire Sistina - Mouse - The Sea Change - When We Went To Sea The End Of The World By Dawnie Morningside, Age 11 1/4 - Desert Wind - Tastings - Babycakes - Murder Mysteries - Snow, Glass, Apples.

This Charming Man, by Marian Keyes (2008, London)

Dublin. Lola is a nice, good stylist who reads on newspapers her boyfriend, the New Ireland politician, Paddy De Courcy, is about to marry another woman. Alicia is the not totally aware Paddy's wife to be. Grace is a beautiful journalist in love with Damien but, in a way, involved in Paddy's story ...and her twin sister's one of Paddy's exes. Marnie, Grace's twin sister, living in London, married, two daughters, Paddy's ex, is so fragile she can barely survive day by day. All the Paddy's women share a secret about him... Turn-pager.

Ristorante al termine dell'universo - The reastaurant At The End Of The Universe, by Douglas Adams (1980, UK)

Arthur, the last Earth inhabitant, Ford Prefect (from Betelgeuse), Zaphod (the former Galaxy President) and Trillian, from UK as Arthur, when they can finally get to their spaceship, The Sweetheart, go to the restaurant at the end of the universe, millions of years ahead, where every evening you can see the grand show of the collapsing universe. Getting away from there, they go into new adventures by chance, Zaphod and Trillian looking for the person who governs the universe, Ford and Arthur to a pretty strangely familiar planet...
Peculiar.

Uomini e no, by Elio Vittorini (1945, Milano)

Conversazione in Sicilia, by Elio Vittorini (1941, Florence)

Il garofano rosso, by Elio Vittorini (1948, Milano)

Stelle cadenti - Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchett (1990, UK)

Victor is a not-wizard by choice: he puts a big effort not to graduate...for the skin of his teeth, at the Unseen University in Ank morpork. But one day, as thousands of people, he is catched by the Holy Wood magic and there he goes. He meets Ginger, the Discworld version of Marilyn Monroe, Gaspode, the secretely speaking dog... and a different kind of magic. Mysteryous. And perhaps dangerous.

Maledette piramidi - Pyramids, by Terry Pratchett (1989, UK)

A disc world novel, set in an Egypt like land: Teppic, although trained as a graduated assassin, is the next Pharao, but there's sth wrong with the pyramids and the time ...the valley of the kingdom switches dimension: a mess of gods and dead Pharaos... Dios the high priest, uncountably years old, hides a mystery and an unusual ending is awaiting. Good.

Odd And The Frost Giants, by Neil Gaiman (2009, UK)

Odd is a guy whose father died... His life is in a small village and his adventure begins during a long winter, with a fox leading him to a bear and an eagle: they turn out to be Loki, Thor and Odin, beaten by the Frost Giants and turned into animals. Odd is to help them back to Asgard. Nice.

Guida Galattica per gli Autostoppisti - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (1980, UK)

Ford Perfect lives in a small town in the UK... but he's here waiting, from several years ago, a lift to somewhere else in the galaxy. Lucky enough, he finds it a few seconds before Earth is destroyed for logistic reasons. He saves his neighbour, Arthur, who didn't have a clue, before, Ford to be from another planet (Betelgeuse). Their adventure begins this way and, lift after lift, Arthur learns truths about universe, Earth, mice... So hilarious and deep.

Last Chance Saloon, by Marian Keyes (1999, Dublin)

Katherine, Tara and Fintan go back a long way: the three of them are from Knockavoy, Western Ireland. They live in London now. Tara is trapped in a so-called sad love story with Thomas, a highly mean man. Katherine lives by her own avoiding any chance to meet love. Fintan and his boyfriend are truly in love, but he turns out to be heavily ill. This changes all their lives.
Really involving.

A me le guardie! - GUARDS! GUARDS!, by Terry Pratchett (1989, UK)

Lord Vetinari has got a truly ambitious assistant. Vimes is already the captain, but the guards role is secondary. And he begins as an alcolist. Lady Sybil is a noble, immense, expert about dragons and, when a dragon, called by magic, starts ruling Ank Morpork, Vimes, Nobby, Colon, Carota the giant hero dwarf, Lady Sybil, the Orango Librarian and the small peculiar dragon named Errol have to do sth...

La luce fantastica - The Light Fantastic, by Terry Pratchett (1986, UK)

Here we are again: Rincewind is about to fall off from the Discworld with Twoflowers. But someway they end up to be in a forest where trees talk to them (although Rincewind decides that, since they can't talk at all, he's not going to talk with them). A new adventure, despite Rincewind: Cohen the warrior (now in his 80s), druids on rock clouds, the Unseen University, Bethan, the Magic Shop, the red star coming closer, the Magic Book and many other things. Simply great.

Sorellanza Stregonesca - Wyrd Sisters, by Terry Pratchett (1988, UK)

Verence, king of Lancre, is killed by the duke and his wife. But he doesn't properly disappear: he becomes a ghost.
Granny Weatherwax, Magrat and Ogg, although they really would like to comply with the rule forbidding witches from getting involved, save the young prince, who'll grow up as an actor.
But fate is powerful, and so are witches. Although the court fool...
Hilarious and genial, as all the Discworld books are.

Mr Fridge, l'Irlanda in autostop con un frigo - Round Ireland with a fridge, by Tony Hawks (1998, London)

Tony is a comedian and he begins the adventure by chance, tempted by a bet with a friend. But he really travels all around the green island with a fridge by hitch-hiking. He sees great places, meets so nice people, he has great fun. Also, he becomes kind of a star od an irish TV show and of an irish radio show.
Soooo hilarious and brave. The fridge philosophy.

Le lacrime della giraffa - Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith (2000, Africa)

Precious Ramotswe is a woman: she's a detective living in Botswana. She's from there. Botswana is close to South Africa. The most beautiful thing of the novel is its style: even the way it is written reminds someway to the african temper. There are ways things need to be done. There are values. There's a mysteryous culture. And the Ladies'Detective Agency n.1 works there. Really peculiar.

Lo Hobbit - The Annotated Hobbit, by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1937, UK)

Cose da salvare in caso di incendio - Vaclav & Lena, by Haley Tanner (2011, USA)

Vaclav's family got to Brooklyn as he was a little child. Lena arrived there someway at the same age. Both from Russia. They met by chance when they were children and their friendship grew and grew. But Lena's family situation is pretty complicated and, when early teen, she was brought away. But their fate is linked.
Romantic, sad, a novel of hope as well... very deep although written in an apparently plain way. Love it.

Feet Of Clay, by Terry Pratchett (1996, UK)

A Discworld novel. Samuel Vimes is investigating over some murders and the (mysteryously) continuous poisoning of Vetinari. No clue till the end. Other lives develop in the middle: Angua the werewolf and her troubled story with Carrot (both in the Watch), Chery Littlebottom that decides to out her female nature although beared dwarf, Nobby who might be noble, golems' right to be free... Deep and hilarious in the same time.