tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77755140565309376252024-03-12T19:13:27.782-07:00DISEGNANDO.. LAST READ BOOKSrubina.duci@gmail.comrubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-25101738892041637422013-07-18T23:25:00.002-07:002013-07-18T23:25:59.626-07:00La bambina silenziosa - Den Stille Pige, by Peter Hoeg (2006, Copenaghen)It's like a puzzle gradually to be composed. Kasper's a 40-ish clown with an extraordinary ability to hearing every sound, sounds of emotions, of people, of places, of everything. He tries and save KlaraMaria, a special child apparently kidnapped. Strange things happen, meanwhile, and things are far from being as they look. Interesting.
[vague, 2006] http://rubidu-2006.blogspot.it/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-54900171938942129222013-05-30T04:20:00.001-07:002013-05-30T04:21:18.766-07:00Il mio piede sinistro - My Left Foot, by Christy Brown (1954, Ireland)Christy Brown was born in Dublin on the 5th of June 1932. In a short time, his Mum found out there was something wrong about him and doctors confirmed his heavy cerebral palsy: the only body part he could control was his left foot. But his Mum and Dad support and the love of his many brothers and sisters helped him to grow stronger and brighter. Moving and surprising.
[firehand, 2009] http://rubidu-2009-5.blogspot.it/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-79460804099308987512013-05-18T00:32:00.002-07:002013-05-18T00:32:20.721-07:00Sushi per principianti - Sushi For Beginners, by Marian Keyes (2000, Ireland)Set in Dublin. Ashling works for a brand new magazine. She's young and lives alone, she's altruistic, outgoing, always ready to helping everyone who needs ...this is also due to her peculiar family history. Not so her apparently perfect friend Clodagh, bored by her perfect marriage, her perfect house, her perfect husband. Ashling works for Lisa, a beautiful manager from London, quite bossy and posh. And then Ted, the nice neighbor, Boo, the young homeless, Marcus, the selfish actor, Jack, the handsome and brilliant boss and so on.
Engaging.
[eyes, 1997] http://rubidu-1997.blogspot.it/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-6475143388244856602013-04-28T11:46:00.001-07:002013-04-28T11:46:48.509-07:00N-W, by Zadie Smith (2012, UK)London, Caldwell houses, North-West. Leah&Michel, Keisha&Frank, Felix as well live here. We can see this side of the city through their eyes, of each of them. a portrait of a part of London.
[z.s., 2009] http://rubidu-2009-2.blogspot.it/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-39007006233129028862013-02-27T03:04:00.003-08:002013-02-27T03:04:25.607-08:00L'anno del giardiniere - Zahradnikuw, by Karel Capek (1925, Prague)Month by month, how the garden keeper lives his year. Partially ironic.
[copia del ritratto di l.c., 2005] http://rubidu-2005.blogspot.it/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-5955116551920635642013-02-05T23:07:00.003-08:002013-02-05T23:08:42.013-08:00Rachel's Holiday, by Marian Keyes (1997, Ireland)Rachel's addicted to coke but she can't admit it, not even to herself: her overdose obliges her flatmate and close friend Brigit to hospitalize her and call her family in Ireland. Luke, her lovely boyfriend, in desperation, break up with her. She's forced back to Dublin, from New York, and in a center in the Wiklow County. She keeps her distorted view over everything until eventually, gradually, things get their place in the frame. It takes long enough...
Very deep.
[metissage..a, 2009] http://rubidu-2009.blogspot.it/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-61775455828964872932012-12-28T23:48:00.002-08:002012-12-28T23:55:20.209-08:00Nemiche 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-44234978738833765972012-12-06T23:00:00.002-08:002012-12-06T23:00:45.470-08:00Baci 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-88778976272494490522012-11-23T23:47:00.002-08:002012-11-23T23:47:28.923-08:00Il 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-34692181793673885362012-10-28T08:06:00.001-07:002012-10-28T12:29:53.802-07:00Every Dead Thing, by John Connolly, 1999 UKBird, 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-70165541121868214062012-09-26T00:18:00.002-07:002012-09-26T00:18:46.600-07:00La 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-44049294253491677512012-09-21T01:59:00.002-07:002012-09-21T01:59:48.531-07:00Calliphora - 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-39545126895853619582012-09-14T22:52:00.000-07:002012-09-14T22:52:13.180-07:00Le 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-66421837311138256012012-09-10T00:41:00.002-07:002012-09-10T00:41:57.368-07:00L'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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-75366620080915832572012-09-04T06:36:00.002-07:002012-09-04T06:36:38.953-07:00Mr. 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-31131892101633454152012-08-30T00:22:00.002-07:002012-08-30T00:22:17.389-07:00In 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-59904388139519673542012-08-19T02:12:00.002-07:002012-08-19T02:12:13.704-07:00L'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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-39075590019276057932012-08-12T00:43:00.002-07:002012-08-12T00:43:23.498-07:00Miss 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-38561181807851988272012-08-03T01:21:00.003-07:002012-08-03T01:21:45.019-07:00La 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-73160382014636616732012-07-28T00:35:00.002-07:002012-07-28T00:35:26.171-07:00Molte 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-90059100692839616992012-07-08T00:58:00.003-07:002012-07-08T01:23:06.607-07:00Pane, 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-4395148841094798012012-06-28T09:57:00.000-07:002012-06-28T09:57:45.690-07:00Intervista 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/rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-55484281780645557842012-06-14T01:32:00.003-07:002012-06-14T09:57:19.495-07:00Stregoneria - 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.rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-71747245953818897212012-06-14T00:32:00.002-07:002012-06-14T00:32:21.637-07:00Anybody 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.rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775514056530937625.post-30049576304570442542012-05-24T00:41:00.000-07:002012-06-14T00:32:33.902-07:00Il 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.rubinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13114913020624944368noreply@blogger.com0