Carrie, ex Lucy's lover, mean psycho killer as well, escapes from the mental hospital where she was staying. Meanwhile peculiar disasters happen.
Kay, Marino, Lucy and Benton work on them ...although connections are pretty hard to be found.
Deep.
lunedì 12 settembre 2011
giovedì 1 settembre 2011
Tales Of Mystery And Imagination, by Edgar Allan Poe (1976, US)
The Pit and the pendulum - A Tale of the Ragged Mountains - The Oblong Box - "Thou art the Man" - A Letter Found in a Bottle - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - The Stolen Letter - The Barrel of Amontillado - The Sphinx
venerdì 12 agosto 2011
If You Could See Me Now, by Cecelia Ahern (2006, USA)
Elizabeth is a successful young woman, living in Baile na gCroìthe, a small village in the West of Ireland. Her mother left as she was 13 and she grew up her sister Saoirse. Now Saoirse is alcoholic, hardly at home, and Elizabeth is growing up her 6 years old nephew, Luke. But sb arrives. Ivan is the invisible friend of Luke. As his colleagues, he can be seen only by whom believes and needs him. And Elizabeth can see him too, although unaware of him to be an imaginary friend (nevertheless real). A strange love story that changes everything.
mercoledì 10 agosto 2011
Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett (2009, UK)
Disk world. Mr Nutt arrives at the Unseen University and begins working there. He knows EVERYTHING. He's very kind. He's got worth. But he's an orc, although he doesn't know. It's all about the wizards playing the old foot the ball, Glenda that's wise and runs the Night Kitchen, Trevor who lits the candles, Juliet, who shines, the big football match. And Nutt gaining worth. Deep and hilarious.
lunedì 1 agosto 2011
The Water Is Wide, by Pat Conroy (1972, USA)
Pat is a teacher grown up in South Carolina, sent teaching on Yamacraw Island: the high school here is ruled by Mrs Brown, who believes in discipline and violent methods. Guys are black people, poorly educated, knowing very few of the world. Pat, bringing new ways of teaching, starts a war against racism and bureaucracy. Deep.
mercoledì 27 luglio 2011
Il Santo e la Spada, by Cecilia Penati (2011, Italy)
Giovanna is a beautiful girl from Milan, moving to Vilminore in order to work in the library. But, throughout the diaries of the just passed by general practitioner, she starts investigating on a crime of 50 years before, eventually with Andrea, a fascinating young guy living there. Engaging, turn-pager, deep... Soooo good!
martedì 12 luglio 2011
Tutta un'altra musica - Juliet, Naked, by Nick Hornby (2009, UK)
Annie is sort of 38 years old, been Duncan's partner for 15 years. But it's just rut, no love between them. And they both are Tucker Crowe's fans: Duncan is probably his biggest fan in the world. Once they split up, Tucker emails Annie to write back at her review on his album. And sth changes. Nice
mercoledì 6 luglio 2011
Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer (2008, New York)
Edward and Bella do finally get married and something unexpected happens: a new being, unknown until now, grows inside Bella. Renesmee is beautiful, half human, half vampire. In order to survive, Bella has got to become a vampire, a grand vampire. Jacob has got his imprinting. A bright happy large family.
But Volturis decide to get there and fight this big clan.
Cullens and werewolves make up a plan.
But Volturis decide to get there and fight this big clan.
Cullens and werewolves make up a plan.
martedì 28 giugno 2011
Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer (2007, New York)
Now Bella and Edward are definetely together, but Bella's heart is divided between him ans Jakob. This is the main theme. As a backdrop, Victoria, the vampire hunting Bella, is to set up an army.
mercoledì 22 giugno 2011
New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer (2006, New York)
After a short idyllic period, Edward goes away and leaves Bella. She nearly dies, loosing away her life. Just keeping moving and breathing without really being there. Until Jakob gets a close friend... But things get complicated.
Despite everything, Bella's feelings are so strongly vivid that the reader feels them even too deep inside, almost in a physical way.
Despite everything, Bella's feelings are so strongly vivid that the reader feels them even too deep inside, almost in a physical way.
martedì 21 giugno 2011
Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer (2005, New York)
Bella is a 16 years old nice girl who decided to move and live with her father in the small town of Forks, state of Washington. Her father, Charlie, is the chief of the local police, a good man. Despite her expectations, she likes staying there. And she falls in love. With a special guy. Edward is a vampire. Things get bad as a less human vampire chooses Bella to be hunted. Amazingly involving: impossible staying apart from Bella's feelings.
mercoledì 15 giugno 2011
Il libro del domani - The Book Of Tomorrow, by Cecelia Ahern (2009, Dublin)
Tamara is 16 ...so it seems. And his rich father makes suicide, covered by debts. Tamara and her mother's lives dramathically change ...they move outside Dublin, to Killarney, where they live with some parents, Rosaleen and Arthur. But, apart from the radical change of everyday life, there's a mystery Tamara wants to find out...
venerdì 10 giugno 2011
Senza passato - Citizen Vince, by Jess Walter (2004, USA)
Vince lives in Spokane. Now. He started his life again here, after New York. New name, new everything. New person? Not sure. Somebody comes and look for him ...and he decides to do something brave, to clear his life. Intriguing.
giovedì 2 giugno 2011
La ragazza di carta - La Fille De Papier, by Guillaume Musso (2011, France)
Tom is a writer. A succesful writer. But when Aurore leaves him, he nearly gets to death. His two best friends (Milo, his agent, and Carole, a policewoman) do everything they can to make him reacting. The only one who can move him someway is Billie: she looks to be one of Tom's characters fallen into reality. A strange adventure begins: from USA, through Mexico and Europe ...a hunt to a book, to Aurore too... lots of events that change everyone's life. Nice.
sabato 28 maggio 2011
La moglie dell'attore - Morgan's Passing, by Anne Tyler (1980, USA)
Morgan is a middle age peculiar father and husband: he likes being many people. One day he's a doctor. The other one a teacher. And so on. He likes changing perspective. Till he meets Emily and Leon, a young couple making muppets shows...
Peculiar.
Peculiar.
lunedì 16 maggio 2011
La bussola di Noé - Noah's Compass, by Anne Tyler (2009, USA)
Liam is a 60ish teacher, widow and divorced, with three daughters that seem to despise him, with the exception of Kitty, the youngest one, teenager: she comes and live with him. Liam just lost his job, he moved to another flat (staying in Baltimora) and he's thinking of retiring. The first night in the new house, somebody entered his flat and hits him: Liam can't recall anything about that night and he can't stand this. This is the starting point for a series of facts and changes.
sabato 7 maggio 2011
La figlia perfetta - Digging to America, by Anne Tyler (2007, USA)
Sami and Ziba Yazdan are a young couple living in Baltimora, from Iran. Brad and Bitsy Donaldson are a young american couple too. Both the families adopt a little chorean child, Susan and Jon-Ho, landing in Baltimora on the same day. Yazdans and Donaldsons get along very well together and their stories get linked. But the real guest star is Sami's mother, Maryam: calm, complex, proud, rational and clever. This is more than everything her inner story. So slow rythm... the plot isn't really twisting and turning. Interesting.
venerdì 29 aprile 2011
Ragazza in un giardino - The Clock Winder, by Anne Tyler (1972, USA)
The Emersons are many, although they don't live anymore with their Mum in Baltimora. She's widow, now. She's still a Lady. A sad strange lady. And the whole family is peculiar. Elizabeth arrives by mere chance, out of the blue, and becomes the new handyman. And much more than this. Fascinating, although melancholic.
martedì 26 aprile 2011
Per puro caso, Ladder Of Years, by Anne Tyler (1995, USA)
Delia is a 40ish years old mother and wife, whose relatives, husband, sons and daughter don't mind at all, don't appreciate in any way. One day, without planning anything, she simply keeps walking on the beach and, as she's on the chance of a lift, she takes it: she starts and builds up her life again in another place.
What comes up the most is the pregnance of good communication. Peculiar and so involving.
What comes up the most is the pregnance of good communication. Peculiar and so involving.
sabato 23 aprile 2011
P.S I Love You, by Cecelia Ahern (2004, Dublin)
Set in Dublin. Holly is a too young widow: her twin soul passed by in short time because of a cancer, but she discovers he found a way to stay for a while with her: Gerry left her ten messages, one a month, to give her month missions. That's how she can someway keep living, kind of building up her life again, helped by dear and crazy friends, other than a cheerful family. Page-turner. The reader can't help but feeling Holly's emotions.
lunedì 18 aprile 2011
Il grande sogno, by Matteo Pennacchi (1999, Italy)
Matteo is a young italian guy willing to travel around the world without money nor baggages, thanks only to people's generosity. He's about to enter a world record...if he can succeed in 100 days. A highly enriching travel, full of people and places. Surprising.
sabato 16 aprile 2011
Morty l'apprendista - Mort, by Terry Pratchett (1987, UK)
Disk world. Morty is a young, confused guy with no specific ability. Despite his father loves him, he has to send him learning a job: Death chooses Morty to teach him being the new Death: the true Death wants some spare time to learn himself enjoying "life". But Morty doesn't accept to let a beautiful princess dying and reality gets strange.
Morty, Ysabel (Death's adopted daughter), Albert (powerful Death's servant) try and re-set pieces. Hilarious, great, awesome.
Morty, Ysabel (Death's adopted daughter), Albert (powerful Death's servant) try and re-set pieces. Hilarious, great, awesome.
lunedì 4 aprile 2011
Puro genio - Simple Genius, by David Baldacci (2007, USA)
Michelle's strong, physically strong. Brave as well. But sth happened, as she was a child, that's now devastating herself. Her partner Sean is nothing less than her: they're a beautiful, smart, good team and they're detective. This case is about deaths linked to CIA, FBI and Maths research. But there's also the case on which Horatio, Sean's friend and Michelle's psychiatrist, is working: Michelle.
Page turner.
Page turner.
mercoledì 30 marzo 2011
Gli artigli del diavolo - The White Rose Murders, by Paul Doherty (1991, UK)
Henry the VIII court: Margherita, who married the count of Angus after king Jack's death, hides a crucial secret. Benjamin and Shallot (who's our narrator) are asked to investigate. Deaths in strange circumstances, codes, mysteries... but finally all is understood. Intriguing.
mercoledì 23 marzo 2011
Un cappello pieno di stelle - A Hat Full Of Sky, by Terry Pratchett (2004, UK)
Tiffany is 11, but she's stronger than people expect, she fighted and won over fairies queen. Now she's learning about witch stuff with a lovely old witch, Miss Level. Tiffany is about to face a devil that will get her body and mind... but she's not alone: the powerful Miss Weatherwax is with her. And surely the small, angry, rude but faithful Nac Mac Feegles are.
Soooo hilarious and fun, but deep as well.
Soooo hilarious and fun, but deep as well.
giovedì 17 marzo 2011
Grazie dei ricordi - Thanks for the Memories, by Cecelia Ahern (2008, Dublin)
Joyce is a young woman, grown up in Dublin: her marriage is about to finish and she just lost the baby whe was pregnant of. She was saved by a blood trasfusion. Justin is american, moved to England and working in the Trinity College as well. He gave blood, although unwilling. A peculiar link grows between them, even if they yet don't know each other.
Dublin, London, Irish people, grand characters (Henry, Joyce's dad, is absolutely wonderful, a perfect irish old man), brilliant style. Definetely awesome.
Dublin, London, Irish people, grand characters (Henry, Joyce's dad, is absolutely wonderful, a perfect irish old man), brilliant style. Definetely awesome.
sabato 12 marzo 2011
La quarta mano - The Fourth Hand, by John Irving (2001, USA)
USA, end of 90s. Patrick's a handsome, playboy journalist whose left hand has been eaten by a lion in India. Doris is a determined, honest woman in love with his husband. Dr Zajac is a complicated doc who's working on hands surgery. The author takes the reader deep inside all the characters' lives, so that they can easily think as each characters does.
Peculiar and page-turner.
Peculiar and page-turner.
venerdì 4 marzo 2011
Baudolino, by Umberto Eco (2000, Milan)
XII century. Baudolino was born nearby Milan, adopted then by chance by the emperor. He travelled wherever, creating stories and looking for legendary reigns and goblets. He saw mythological creatures and places, then he could tell all his chronicles to a wise man in Costantinopoli.
The main message among these diverse tales is that you can never trust anything, cause most things can be said as lies.
lunedì 7 febbraio 2011
Hyperversum, Il Cavaliere del Tempo, by Cecilia Randall (2009, Florence)
Daniel finds a way to go and come back from Middle Ages, but a guy follows him without Daniel knowing it. So Ty is stuck there. Daniel and Ian have to save him but there are enemies in that place and time ... and their lives (other than their secret) are in huge danger.
venerdì 7 gennaio 2011
Hyperversum, Il Falco e il Leone, by Cecilia Randall (2007, Florence, Italy)
Ian and Daniel can finally do to go back to Flandre, 1215, but things don't go exactly as they planned: Ian is catched by one of his old enemies' friend, and so is Daniel.
Besides, Daniel looses connection with Hyperversum.
So they're involved in the rebellion against King John, in England.
Action book, page turner.
Besides, Daniel looses connection with Hyperversum.
So they're involved in the rebellion against King John, in England.
Action book, page turner.
lunedì 27 dicembre 2010
Hyper versum, by Cecilia Randall (2006, Florence)
Daniel's an american university student. He loves playing Hyperversum, a videogame that can virtually move players to every historical and geographical location they choose. But one day, while he, his brother Martin, his girlfriend Jodie, his best friend Ian and a couple of friends are playing, sth that can't be explained happened and all of them are really moved into France of 1214, with no chance to get back.
Very particular, detailed, changing points of view and page-turner.
giovedì 16 dicembre 2010
Perché l'amore qualche volta ha paura - Que serais-je sans toi?, by Guillaume Musso (2009, France)
Martin, 20-ish, experiences a summer in the USA. He meets Gabrielle and it's devastatingly love. But then Martin heads back to France and, as he dates her in New York, she doesn't show up. This marks Martin's life ..until, 13 years later, a complex plot makes them meeting again in San Francisco ...and a magic step's crucial too.
Although pretty involving, the plot sometimes turns out too forced and not particularly enlightening.
Although pretty involving, the plot sometimes turns out too forced and not particularly enlightening.
sabato 11 dicembre 2010
Ti vengo a cercare - Je reviens to chercher, by Guillaume Musso (2008, France)
Ethan grew up poor and never thinking to be able to choose His Way. Then, suddenly, he changed his life, literaly disappearing. In a few years he gets successful, rich and famous, although he's got no love, no friends, no family: he could be a father, but he neither know his daughter's living, and he left the only Love of his life, the beautiful Céline.
Then, on a 31st October, Céline shows up and so does Jessie, his unknown daughter. But nothing changes ..and at midnight he's killed. The very next morning, he wakes up on another 31st October ...and the plot gets complicated.
Really page turner and enlightening.
Then, on a 31st October, Céline shows up and so does Jessie, his unknown daughter. But nothing changes ..and at midnight he's killed. The very next morning, he wakes up on another 31st October ...and the plot gets complicated.
Really page turner and enlightening.
mercoledì 8 dicembre 2010
Il dono - The Gift, by Cecelia Ahern (2008, Dublin)
Great nowaday locations: Dublin and Howth.
Lou is a young successful business man, meeting by chance Gabe, a mysterious homeless about to change a piece of his life in a completely unexpected way, giving Lou an unusual awakening.
Fascinating, highly page turner, definetely well written.
Lou is a young successful business man, meeting by chance Gabe, a mysterious homeless about to change a piece of his life in a completely unexpected way, giving Lou an unusual awakening.
Fascinating, highly page turner, definetely well written.
lunedì 6 dicembre 2010
Terrore e mistero, by Edgar Allan Poe - Joseph Sheridan LeFanu - Robert Louis Stevenson - Arthur Conan Doyle (1982, Italy)
A collection of classical, intriguing, whodunit stories; mysterious and page turner.
mercoledì 1 dicembre 2010
Gli Ultimi Guardiani - Poslednij Dozor (Last Watch), by Sergey Luk'janenko (2005, Moscow)
Anton is now a Big Wizard and he's involved in mysterious cases linked to some magical objects once created by Merlin. Different stories (set in Edinburgh and Samarcanda, other than in Moscow) linked to a peculiar and unknown group of Others, the Last Watch, and having sth to do with the sixth and seventh level of the Dusk (the ones where dead Others are) ...Anton, finds out important truths about that!
Page-turner and fascinating gothic novel.
Page-turner and fascinating gothic novel.
giovedì 25 novembre 2010
I guardiani del crepuscolo - Sumere Nij Dozor (Dusk Watch), by Sergej Luk'janenko (2005, Moscow)
As usual, the plot is composed by different frames, finally finding the proper composition. The main character is Anton, now familiar, getting stronger, although still confused.
Everything is about the meaning of Light and Dark: they're confused, often mixed... and the danger makes them working together. Inquisition included. Zavulon and Geser, Anton with Edgar and Kostja. And, even though the enemy turns out not being that bad, the menace is big.
Acute and brilliant.
Everything is about the meaning of Light and Dark: they're confused, often mixed... and the danger makes them working together. Inquisition included. Zavulon and Geser, Anton with Edgar and Kostja. And, even though the enemy turns out not being that bad, the menace is big.
Acute and brilliant.
mercoledì 17 novembre 2010
I guardiani del giorno - Dnevnoj dozer (Day Watch), by Sergei Luk'janenko (1998, Moscow)
The point of view now is different: the main character is Edgar, a dark wizard bound to Praga, where the Inquisition is going to bring an action between Igor, a Light wizard, and the Day Watch. This trial reveals to be the crux of the previous dark stories. Although a mystery remains about the global plot, Anton, Sveta, Alisa, Igor and some other characters' roles begins to get clear.
Intriguing.
giovedì 4 novembre 2010
I guarduani della notte - Nocnoj Dozor (Night Watch), by Sergej Luk'janenko (2004, Moscow)
Anton has got magical powers and is being trained as wizard by the Night Watch, the light corporation of modern knights secretely fighting in Moscow to protect people from the Dark, the Day Watch.
Despite at the beginning the plot doesn't look that turning and twisting, it's really page turner and the final is unexpected.
Fascinating.
Despite at the beginning the plot doesn't look that turning and twisting, it's really page turner and the final is unexpected.
Fascinating.
martedì 26 ottobre 2010
Racconti - Tales, by Edgar Allan Poe (1845, USA)
Considering we're in XIX century, these short novels are amazingly gothic and mysterious. Really good.
giovedì 14 ottobre 2010
Racconti d'amore di follia e di morte - Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte + El salvaje, by Horacio Quiroga (1920, Buenos Aires)
Despite only novels, they can catch the reader and make them inside Argentina life, both wild and urban.
sabato 9 ottobre 2010
Insolito e crudele - Cruel And Unusual, by Patricia Cornwell (1993, USA)
Mark died in a bomb attack in London and Kay's still struggling to get a certain emotional stability. A series of crimes seem to be interlinked and strangely connected to Ronnie Joe Waddell, who's been killed by electrified chair in jail. And somebody's trying to let Kay appear linked to those crimes.
Marino, Wesley and Lucy play an important role in clearifying the situation...that cover a previous scandal of a powerful politician.
Turn pager as usual.
mercoledì 29 settembre 2010
Quel che rimane - All That Remains, by Patricia Cornwell (1992, USA)
Mark and Kay just split up, she's going on working in Richmond and a new case comes up: the daughter of an important politician is killed. And so her boyfriend. They're found months later. A killer's been killing couples for some years and bodies are found only months later: Kay can find really few over their skeletons. This time sth is different: Pat Harvey (the politician) does all she can to avenge her daughter. Maybe CIA and FBI are involved too, although their role isn't clear. Besides, a journalist, Abby, Kay's friend, plays an unclear role too.
Page turner.
Page turner.
giovedì 23 settembre 2010
Oggetti di reato - Body Of Evidence, by Patricia Cornwell (1991, USA)
Beryl Madison is a young beautiful writer. Sb begins and persecute her, until she's finally nastily killed ..and, after her, other people she used to know die as well.
Kay and Marino look for the solution of the mystery between Richmond and Key West, Kay even bumps into an old lover of hers, who isn't anymore who he looks like. Then Kay gets persecuted as well.
Nice.
Kay and Marino look for the solution of the mystery between Richmond and Key West, Kay even bumps into an old lover of hers, who isn't anymore who he looks like. Then Kay gets persecuted as well.
Nice.
venerdì 17 settembre 2010
Il venditore di storie - Sirkusdirektorens datter, by Jostein Gaarder (2001, Norway)
Petter is born in Oslo at half XIX century and, since very very young shows an extremely lush creativity. While growing, this peculiar ability of his turns into a clever way to have a beautiful life: first at school and then as an adult. Until sth comes up..
The idea of the novel is definetely brilliant, although sometimes the rythm gets a little too slow.
The idea of the novel is definetely brilliant, although sometimes the rythm gets a little too slow.
lunedì 13 settembre 2010
I ragazzi di Anansi - Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman (2005, UK)
Charles has a normal life, although not very successful: he lives in London, working in a company and he's going to marry his girlfriend Rosie. Then sth happens: he's got to go in Florida for his father's funeral. Since that moment, many events happen to turn upside down his life... his father turns out to be a god, Charlie's brother comes around and everything get different and troubled.
Interesting, very well written (meaningful unusual style), great.
mercoledì 8 settembre 2010
Il palazzo della mezzanotte - El Palacio De La Medianoche, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (1994, Spain)
Calcutta, 1910s. Ben and Sheere are a couple of twins born by the so called Princess of The Light, who's killed as they come to the world. They're saved by a fire ghost who, they suppose, killed their father and wants to destroy them too. Their grandma divides them to protect them, so that Ben grows up in an orphanage, surrounded by great friends, the Chowbar Society. But when they're 16, the nightmare comes back ...and the plot begins twisting and turning.
Kind of guys novel.
martedì 7 settembre 2010
Il deserto e altri racconti - El desierto, Mas Alla, by Horacio Quiroga (1935, Argentina)
A very diverse collection of Argentina set novels: from the psychological novel to the surreal one. Some sadness as a backdraw of each. Some real life in each.
Despite they're brief, they can very easily let the reader enter them. Interesting.
Despite they're brief, they can very easily let the reader enter them. Interesting.
domenica 29 agosto 2010
I ragazzi di Charleston - South Of Broad, by Pat Conroy (2009, USA)
Charleston, half of XXth century; Leo is the teenage son of her school principal. His brother made suicide and he had got various troubles after that, but he's stronger than we can expect and he saves his own life and his new friends' ones: Sheba and Trevor, Starla and Niles, Ike and Betty, Molly, Fraser and Chad.. As they're adult, their friendship's still strong, but Trevor's in trouble. Various dramas are waiting for all of them, but they get through them, although not uninjured.
Conroy's clever style doesn't disappoint: he can be ironical although talking over dramatic events. Deeply introspective.
Conroy's clever style doesn't disappoint: he can be ironical although talking over dramatic events. Deeply introspective.
sabato 14 agosto 2010
E' nata una star - Not A Star, by Nick Hornby (2006, London)
Two days told by Lynn, 49 years old, Mark's mum. One of her neighbours makes her find out her son is a porn-star. Through shock, irony, discussions to, finally, easily, a new pretty fine normality: there are miles deeper troubles than this one!
Nice.
Nice.
venerdì 13 agosto 2010
Che fine ha fatto Mister Y - The End Of Mr. Y, by Scarlett Thomas (2006, UK)
Ariel is a MSc student writing a thesis on mind experiments and ability to travel by thought.
She accidentally bumps into an ancient book, The End Of Mr. Y, by the author she's studying, Lumas: it's one of a kind and said to be cursed... and it leads Ariel to a vitally dangerous adventure that will completely change not only her life, but even her perspective on world, on time and place link ..and perhaps the all world.
Complex character and kind of philopsophically interesting novel, mind opening.
giovedì 5 agosto 2010
La mano sinistra di Dio - The Left Hand Of God, by Paul Hoffman (2010, UK)
1000ish years have gone since the Redentor's been killed. The Redentors that follow him are, now, preparing the end of the world educating children to fight, terrorising and torturing them. Cale, Kleist and Henri can do to escape and they end up in Menphis, the biggest city in the area. Cale’s huge ability in fighting and killing brings them in the army and, at the end, to protect the most precious object for those people: Arbell, the most beautiful girl ever. But the final battle with the Redentors will be reach in big surprises…
Really intriguing and turn pager, although the plot is not that deep.
Really intriguing and turn pager, although the plot is not that deep.
venerdì 30 luglio 2010
La rabbia e l'orgoglio, by Oriana Fallaci (2001, Milano)
11th September 2001. Oriana Fallaci is in New York and she can't help but writing down all she feels and thinks of what happened, of the responsibles but also of Europe and Italy and many important people she met in the past, of her relatives and parents that had important roles in Italian history.
It's a sermon, sometimes very sensible, sometimes very irrational. Her style is dynamic and colourful and it would be easy to agree with her. Nevertheless she chose really carefully the episodes to tell. It's crucial to remember there's another face of the medal to consider.
giovedì 29 luglio 2010
Buongiorno Los Angeles - Bright Shiny Morning, by James Frey (2008, USA)
Using pieces of many diverse people and pieces of its history, the author tells what Los Angeles is, how it's born, grown up, changed.
Old Man Joe is a good and kind of wise homeless, Dylan and Maddie escaped from violent families and try and survive being happy, Esperanza is a young brilliant girl that ends up having a hope, Amberton is a famous actor secretely gay. Everybody tries and be happy.
It's effective. A true complex picture of LA can be painted.
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