Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, humorous - and a consummate musician. When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fianc - a member of the underground - go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
dabbe
post image

#NewYearNewBooks
#MusicalCover
@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I have never read this, but I sure do remember Hugh Grant reading it at the end of the film NOTTING HILL. 😃

BarbaraBB I loved this but I read it a long long time ago 2mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Brilliant 😊 2mo
LeeRHarry This is one so my all time faves. 😊 2mo
See All 8 Comments
dabbe @BarbaraBB 🖤💜🖤 2mo
dabbe @LeeRHarry On the TBR! 🖤💜🖤 2mo
Eggs Sounds memorable 🎶👌🏼 🎼 2mo
dabbe @Eggs 💜🤍💜 2mo
58 likes4 stack adds8 comments
blurb
xicanti
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Rocco demanded belly rubs in exchange for his reading buddy services. I was happy to pay.

CAPTAIN CORELLI‘S MANDOLIN is another of those books I read in the early 2000s and haven‘t revisited since. I used to cite it as one of my favourites, but while I can still see how the layered narrative entranced 2003 Me, it hasn‘t gripped 2023 Me nearly as hard. Oh well. It‘s a long book and I‘m only 50 pages in, so I might still fall back in love.

dabbe Hello there, Rockin' Rocco! 🖤🐾🖤 7mo
xicanti @dabbe he‘s the sweetest boy. 7mo
dabbe @xicanti The book matches the length of his head perfectly! 🤩🤩🤩 7mo
xicanti @dabbe he was built for this reading buddy schtick (ARGH to senseless autocorrects I don‘t notice until hours later). (edited) 7mo
dabbe @xicanti 🤩🤣😍 7mo
33 likes1 stack add5 comments
blurb
TheSpineView
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Movie: Vanity Fair

Klou Perfect 8mo
47 likes2 comments
review
Rissreads
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image
Pickpick

This is beautiful Asos on the Greek island of Kefalonia my home for 5 days. I‘m so glad I waited to read this book in the setting it was written it made it all the more magical! I fell in love with the book characters and the place. Although I must admit I almost gave up on the book as I disliked the first quarter but I‘m glad I persevered as it was so worth it! 💙🤍

Cazxxx Beautiful 😻 2y
erzascarletbookgasm Wow! 😍 2y
Chelsea.Poole Gorgeous! 2y
See All 11 Comments
CarolynM So beautiful 😍 Enjoy! 2y
Rissreads I am @CarolynM How are you going? X 2y
Rissreads @Cazxxx @erzascarletbookgasm @Chelsea.Poole Yes it‘s just wonderful! 💙🤍 2y
Jeg So beautiful. Bet you are super relaxed. 1y
Rissreads @Jeg Yes super relaxed and feeling magnificent! X 1y
Reggie Wow this is lovely! 1y
Rissreads It was very special @Reggie and at the moment I‘m in Taormina Sicily! ♥️ 1y
CarolynM I‘m good. I‘ve been in Adelaide visiting my parents. Not as exciting as overseas adventures😆 Hope you‘re having a wonderful time 😘 1y
46 likes11 comments
blurb
RaeLovesToRead
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

#roll100 picks for June. Although I'm very behind 🙈
What have I been doing with myself all day? I haven't finished any books yet this month! 😬

Of these, I have the highest hopes for Captain Corelli's Mandolin. It was recommended to me by the same person that suggested I read the Liveships 💕 (She has proven to be trustworthy! 😄) I also LOVE the cover for The Institute.

48 likes1 stack add
review
kplovesbooks
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image
Bailedbailed

First, let me say that I LOVED the movie (which is why that's the picture! 😍) However...the book. 🙄 I bailed at 25%. It's just...BORING. OMG. I think if it had stayed on the characters I knew from the movie (which of course it wouldn't, I know that, the book being the correct version! I'm just saying!), it would have been fine, but of the 25%, half of that was of characters I couldn't place and those were the parts that were dragging SO MUCH. 😴

Nikki_E I read this for a college class and I loved the book and HATED the movie. (Though it‘s because I hate Nic Cage). 2y
kplovesbooks @Nikki_E Haha! Yep, that would do it, then. Plus I'm of the belief that whatever you do first...read the book, watch the movie ..that is then the "correct" version in your head and then the other is obviously different. ? 2y
27 likes2 comments
blurb
leah152
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Bit of afternoon reading 😊📖

2 likes1 stack add
blurb
Ruthiella
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

I hate Monday‘s. 😣. I got very little reading in on Saturday but made up for lost time on Sunday. I have about 100 pages left in each pictured book to go. 😀

#SuperSeptember

Andrew65 The work week seriously impinges on reading. 4y
Cathythoughts Loved tagged book ❤️💔 4y
Ruthiella @Andrew65 Some days more than others! 😀 4y
Ruthiella @Cathythoughts I like it but it won‘t be a “love” ... unless it stays with me. 😀 4y
32 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
Ruthiella
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

I‘m tossing my hat into the ring and taking part in the Set Your Own Goals Readathon organized by Litsy laureate @Andrew65 ! 😀 #SuperSeptember.

My goal between this Saturday and Sunday, September 20, is to complete the tagged book. Any thing I manage beyond that is gravy!

Feel free to join in and make your own goals! 😁

Andrew65 Thanks for reposting and great to have you with us. 😊👍 4y
22 likes1 comment
review
ChubbyChipmunk
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image
Pickpick

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
This read helped me realize why I adore historic fiction so much.

The details of war are repulsive and terrible to read about, which is why they MUST be documented and widely spread - to prevent us from reliving our past mistakes.

Bernières‘ ability to weave hate and love proves that the world is not black and white, and war does not make good and bad men, only good and bad deeds.

2 likes1 stack add
blurb
jenniferw88
post image

Kefalonia was not #laislabonita in 1953, when this book is set because of an earthquake. #MOvember @Cinfhen

#keeplitsyactive #disaster @ljuliel

Cinfhen I‘m intrigued by the blurb and drawn in by the cover art and book title 4y
BarbaraBB I loved this book when I read it in the 90s!! 4y
ljuliel Good one ! We have yet to see an earthquake book, so now we have one. 4y
jenniferw88 @ljuliel 😊 glad I could help! 4y
74 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
jenniferw88
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

A selection of photos from my holiday... wifi signal was poor in the villa so posting this on the journey home.

@squirrelbrain it's slowly changing to a more touristy island - the airport is expanding & now has 2 landing strips!

Saw lots of 🐢, 🐱 & 🐂!

aa_guer2021 Looks like a beautiful trip!! 😍🐱🐢 5y
Jerdencon Beautiful pics!
My dad was born there....we went back a few years ago for a wedding. Was very different from when I went in the 80's as a teenager.
2 landing strips at the airport...wow!! They didn't even have a baggage carousel when I went back then! LOL.
5y
squirrelbrain @Jerdencon - I went in the early 90s and it was like that then too! 😁 Looks like you had a lovely time Jennifer! 5y
89 likes1 stack add3 comments
blurb
jenniferw88
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

#bfcr3 update

Books: 6/12
Walks: 2 1/2 /3
Fruit: 0/3

Blood sugars: 23/23
Injections: 26/28

The turtle wants to say a special hi to @wanderinglynn & @Chrissyreadit !

Nerdy_Bookworm What a cutie!!! I love turtles! 😍😍😍😍😍 5y
wanderinglynn I love turtles! ❤️🐢 And great progress this week! 🙌🏻 5y
KathyWheeler I love your picture. 5y
Chrissyreadit You inspire me so much!!! ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
95 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
CafeMom
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Read a world book written in the 20th century (1994). Finally made a straight line. Also watched the movie which I enjoyed despite the changes from the book.

review
CafeMom
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image
Pickpick

It took me quite a while to get into this book especially since Captain Corelli does not enter the picture for quite some time but once I did I was hooked. I very much enjoyed the relationship of Corelli and Pelagia and how it reflected time and place. War brings people to together and tears them apart which was evident on this small Greek island. #1001books

Henrik_Madsen I have it lined up for later this year. Good to hear there is something to look forward to😀 5y
8 likes2 stack adds1 comment
blurb
Leniverse
post image

I'm... just gonna leave this right here. No comment. 🇬🇧

blurb
Ladygodiva7
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Sleeping Beauty 😽 #catsoflitsy

quote
Leniverse
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres

“The reader should be reminded that it was crusaders and not the Muslims who originally sacked Constantinople, which should have caused perpetual scepticism about the value of noble causes. Apparently it has not, as the human race is incapable of learning anything from history.”

quote
Leniverse
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres

"The self-anointed superior races, drunk on Darwin and nationalist hyperbole, besotted with eugenics and beguiled by myth, were winding up machines of genocide that soon would be unleashed upon a world already weary to the heart of such infinite foolery and contemptible vainglory."

RamsFan1963 Sadly, that is something that could be in today's newspaper about our current government 5y
35 likes1 comment
blurb
Ladygodiva7
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

June BOTM. Had to make sure I got the book with 450 pages and not only 100 pages. #Reading1001 #1001Books

CafeMom I am picking up my copy today at the library. 5y
Ladygodiva7 It‘s dragging for me, I‘m only 120 pages in! Bah. 5y
Ladygodiva7 Last quarter of the book was so good!!! Ending was good but frustrating, once I got there. 5y
5 likes3 comments
blurb
BookishTrish
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

#EarlGrey reading

LA_Mead Love that cat 😻 5y
Crazeedi Looks like kitty is reading intently!!😻 5y
vumblereads Beautiful cat! 5y
See All 9 Comments
Mariposa_Bookworm Kitty!!!!! So cute!!!😻 5y
BookishTrish @Crazeedi He‘s concentrating because he‘s just learning to read. 😂 5y
Chrissyreadit I love your cat!!!😍😻😻😍 5y
Kshakal I love the kitty!!! 5y
VeganCleopatra His little mane/pseudo beard is adorable. 5y
78 likes9 comments
blurb
BookishTrish
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

#EarlGrey is not the #KAL his reluctant sister #May is, but he has started curling up behind me when I read sometimes

rubyslippersreads 😻😻😻 5y
Clwojick Earl Grey! 😻😻😻😻 5y
75 likes2 comments
blurb
BookishTrish
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

A quiet moment to read

blurb
BookishTrish
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

The pure joy when your book matches your bag

Texreader Perfectly 5y
Tanisha_A Purple! 👌🏽 5y
LeeRHarry Love this one 😊 5y
100 likes1 stack add3 comments
review
HotCocoaReads
post image
Pickpick

I brought Corelli‘s Mandolin along with me to Greece because I love reading books “on sight”—they make me feel like the setting is coming alive. And I pressed wildflowers from the island of Mykonos into it as I took it along with me everywhere. The story is beautiful, funny and heartbreaking—and while the ending was romantic, it was a little frustrating too. Still, i cried through the last third of it which means it got me!

LeahBergen Perfect destination read. 👏🏻👏🏻 5y
HotCocoaReads @LeahBergen Yes!!! I‘m so glad I read while in Greece—everything felt so alive! 5y
20 likes2 comments
blurb
BookishTrish
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

After nearly two months on hold, it‘s finally here! Do you have a book that EVERYBODY has read but you? This is one of mine along with:

See All 16 Comments
IamIamIam Me too!!! I love WWII novels but every time I think about this, I get distracted by something else! 5y
Gezemice I have not read this one so that makes us two. But I think my biggest one is 5y
KarouBlue I almost bought this book the other day! Curious to hear what you think? 5y
Jcunning I loved Captain‘s Corelli‘s Mandolin. The first scene was so much fun! 5y
Avanders Lol all 4 of those... me too 🙋🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ 5y
BookishTrish @merelybookish good one! I wish I could read that one again for the first time. 5y
BookishTrish @Gezemice That counts for sure. I wonder how it‘s aged over the years. It might not hold up... 5y
Gezemice @BookishTrish It does not really matter - it launched a movement so it counts even if our views have evolved. 5y
BookishTrish @Gezemice Totally fair. I cried TIL I felt sick when I first read it. I‘m just wondering how my own response may differ on a reread. 5y
batsy Mine are also the tagged book, The Kite Runner, A Little Life, and anything by John Boyne. 5y
BookishTrish @batsy I completely forgot- I‘ve never read 5y
86 likes16 comments
blurb
Rambo_Reads
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

New year, new book!

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Hope you're enjoying Litsy so far 📖💙 5y
8 likes1 comment
blurb
Xeroaa13
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

At the seaside after a long break from social media #backtolitsy #holiday #1000beforeyoudie

Andrew65 Looks good! 6y
Xeroaa13 It does :) both the sea and the read are amazing :) 6y
30 likes1 stack add2 comments
blurb
Amandajoy
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

I have my cup of tea & I‘m ready to finish the last 20 pages!

BarbaraJean Love that mug! 6y
UwannaPublishme Perfect mug! 😍 6y
50 likes2 comments
blurb
Amandajoy
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

1. Coffee, always part of my day ☕️😉
2. Today! It‘s my birthday! I may go buy myself a book! 🎉📚
3. Dairy, yes 🍨🧀
4. 🎶😍
5. Yes, my pinky toe because I kicked someone. And then I‘ve had three toes broken intentionally during surgery. 🏥

MicheleinPhilly Happy Birthday! 6y
TrishB Happy birthday 🎉🎉 6y
The_Literary_Jedi Happy Birthday!!!🎉🎉🎉 6y
See All 12 Comments
Cinfhen Oh Happy Birthday!!! 6y
Tanisha_A Happy birthday! 6y
LiteraryinLawrence Happy birthday!! 6y
britt_brooke Happy birthday!! 6y
BookNAround Happy Birthday! 6y
UwannaPublishme Happy birthday! 🎂🎈🎁🎉 6y
Nute Happy Birthday! I always buy myself a book for my birthday. I say ‘do it.‘ Enjoy your day! 6y
Amandajoy Thank you @Nute ! 6y
33 likes12 comments
blurb
Amandajoy
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Enjoying a relaxing Sunday on the porch with my coffee & this book. I think my year has finally slowed down a bit so I can do more reading & Litsying! Ahh 😊!

54 likes1 stack add
review
Abailliekaras
post image
Pickpick

A book to immerse yourself in. I read this in Kefalonia with goats roaming nearby & Homer‘s sea below - it feels unchanged since the 50s. So I really enjoyed the sense of place & historical details. The characters are vivid, range from comic to tragic, but even if caricatures, they ring true. A little sentimental & dragged in parts, but I liked the tone & gentle humour. A moving, drily funny & entertaining story & different perspective of WW2.

ClairesReads Loved this book and read it first on a European beach too 😍 6y
44 likes3 stack adds1 comment
blurb
Abailliekaras
post image

I‘m in Kefalonia so belatedly reading this! I‘m really enjoying it but it‘s slow. Am I the last person to read it? 😉📖🏖

Redwritinghood No - I haven‘t gotten to this either. 6y
Abailliekaras @Redwritinghood that makes me feel better! I didn‘t like The Dust That Falls From Dreams, but enjoying this. 6y
BarbaraBB The perfect place to read it! 6y
Abailliekaras @BarbaraBB it is! I‘m very lucky. 😊 6y
35 likes1 stack add4 comments
blurb
Amandajoy
post image

What should I read next? Light-hearted love story, gut wrenching war story, or catch up on my BOTM books with a family drama?

Lovesbooks87 Loved The Book of Essie! 6y
Reviewsbylola I need to read Essie and I highly recommend the Sittenfeld. It is so well done and very funny! 6y
bibli0phagist Just finished Book of Essie last night and it was so good!! 6y
See All 6 Comments
Amandajoy Decided to go with Eligible first because I wanted something light & fun; then I‘ll read The Book of Essie next. Thanks for the help! @Reviewsbylola @Lovesbooks87 @bibli0phagist 6y
Lovesbooks87 @Amandajoy your welcome! Can't wait to see what you think of Eligible. I have wanted to read it for a while! 6y
Amandajoy @Lovesbooks87 So far I‘m flying through it (which is saying something since I haven‘t been doing that with books recently). It‘s a light, lovely homage to Jane Austen, hopefully I‘m not disappointed at the end! 6y
38 likes6 comments
blurb
Centique
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

#heatofjuly #seeyouagain

Pelagia is left behind on Cephalonia during WW2 when her fiancée Mandras goes to fight at the front. She believes she‘ll never see him again.
This book was huge in the 90s. (I seem to be doing 90s throwbacks this week!) It‘s a chunkster and a bit of an epic. Who else remembers reading this? It was an emotional roller coaster for me ???? Loved it and should reread.

Cathythoughts Oh I loved this book. Must read it again ❤️ 6y
JennyM Confession time...I‘ve only seen the movie 🤭 6y
LeeRHarry Loved it !!! It made me cry 😢 6y
See All 18 Comments
erzascarletbookgasm Err, on my TBR 😬 6y
Cinfhen Sounds so familiar but I‘ve never read it, Jo 😔 another book I‘m gonna have to add!!! My TBR will outlive my future generations 😬 6y
MicheleinPhilly I read and loved this after seeing Hugh Grant‘s character reading it at the end of Notting Hill. 6y
Chrissyreadit I loved it- but it was in the 90‘s 😁 6y
BarbaraBB I loved it too in the 90s! 6y
laurieluna I loved this book. Only read it a couple of years ago. ❤ 6y
Centique @Cathythoughts @Chrissyreadit @BarbaraBB it was a beauty wasn‘t it? @LeeRHarry yes, all the tears for me too! 6y
Centique @MicheleinPhilly ooh I never noticed that! That‘s a great way to be pointed to a book 😍 6y
Centique @Cinfhen @erzascarletbookgasm I think you‘d both like it. But yes - my TBR is about 50 years long too. I better up my reading speed! 6y
Centique @JennyM I have it on good authority that the movie wasn‘t as good as the book 😁 I hope you try it! 6y
Centique @miralunasbooknook oh good! It‘s nice to know that it hasn‘t dated 😊 6y
Blaire It was the first book my book club read about 8 years ago now. In the end I loved it though had to give it close to 100 pages to get into it. Sadly, most of my book club dnf. 6y
Centique @Blaire good on you for not giving up! It‘s hard though to know whether to keep going through a slow start. 6y
Jeg I remember reading it and I know I enjoyed it. Think it was a book club book. As for what it was about that memory is long gone! 🙃. I‘m still convinced I could have a shelf of books that I could read through again and again. 😊 6y
Centique @Jeg I know what you mean! I was reading a book last year and wondering if I already read it. It just felt familiar 😂 6y
76 likes3 stack adds18 comments
blurb
vivastory
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

I'm really enjoying this one so far. I'm only a little over 100 pages in, so too early for a definitive verdict.

BarbaraBB I really liked this one! 6y
ValerieAndBooks Wasn‘t this a movie years ago? With Nicolas Cage? Didn‘t realize it was based on a novel! 6y
vivastory @ValerieAndBooks Yes, it was. I have vague memories of seeing the movie. 6y
readordierachel @ValerieAndBooks The only thing I remember about the movie is Nic Cage's hysterical Italian accent 😂. I imagine the book is infinitely better. 6y
ValerieAndBooks @ReadOrDieRachel books are usually better than movies, anyway 😂! I don‘t remember much about the movie either @vivastory 6y
58 likes1 stack add5 comments
quote
readtheworld
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

“Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day [...] That is just being ‘in love,‘ which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”

Happy #ValentinesDay! Hope it‘s filled with chocolate and a good love story.

aeeklund I used this quote in my wedding ceremony. I love it so much! 6y
Tamra Truth! THIS is Love. ❤️ 6y
readtheworld @aeeklund Aw! It‘s an amazing quote. 6y
71 likes3 stack adds3 comments
quote
BookedBySunrise
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is.

43 likes1 stack add
quote
bookworm.krizia
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

review
bookworm.krizia
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image
Pickpick

❤️❤️❤️❤️

blurb
kg.03
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Now reading

blurb
monalyisha
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

I just officiated my first wedding. I thought I was gonna vom. 🤢 I didn't & am now rewarding myself with copious amounts of wine. Pretty sure that was the most nerve-wracking thing I have ever, ever done. 😅

MrBook Congratulations 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!!! 7y
UwannaPublishme You did it! Way to go! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍾🍾🍾 7y
kspenmoll That's wonderful! 👏👏 7y
mrozzz Well done!! 7y
readordierachel Awesome! 🥂 7y
42 likes1 stack add5 comments
blurb
cewilf
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Picked this up for fifty cents without knowing much about it. It has a lot of mixed reviews, but definitely sounds interesting! I'm into my summer reading pace, but books of over 300 pages have been a bit difficult lately. Gotta get my stamina back up! 🙃

398.2 Love the bookmark. 7y
58 likes4 stack adds1 comment
quote
Linds
Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

blurb
julesG
post image

#MusicalTitle - as in making music not the Andrew Lloyd Webber kind.

This is a wonderful cover - pic from internet - didn't want to show the one with the film cover.
#MayBookFlowers
@RealLifeReading

55 likes2 stack adds
quote
LauraAndTaraAndBooks
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

😂😂😂 What a chapter title!! THOROUGHLY enjoying this book ❤️❤️❤️

JazzFeathers Love it :) 7y
26 likes1 comment
blurb
LauraAndTaraAndBooks
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

What is this freakish weather?! Freakish for England anyway! I'm squinting from the glare reflecting off the pages!!! I must say though, it's making me much less jealous while reading about the glorious quality of the sunshine in Cephallonia ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

KarenUK Love this book 💕 7y
LauraAndTaraAndBooks @KarenUK it's the first time I've read it and I'm enjoying it SO MUCH! But two people I know who are serious readers have both told me they hated it and I'm just like 😵😵😵 They have gone down in my literary esteem!! 😆😆 7y
tpixie Beautiful sky!! 7y
Demelza Just finished this book and actually experiencing a sort of mourning for the characters. (Heard about that happening but never had it before). 7y
LauraAndTaraAndBooks @Demelza oh, that is such a regular occurrence in my life. After reading A Little Life, I spent about a month deliberately choosing books that I wouldn't get overly attached to because I couldn't cope with any more loss!! 7y
38 likes1 stack add5 comments
blurb
LauraAndTaraAndBooks
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

"...I don't need to believe the same things as you to see that you have a purpose..." ?

blurb
LauraAndTaraAndBooks
Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres
post image

Must you, Tara? Really!? 😼🙀😿 #catsoflitsy

OrangeMooseReads She's taking "devour a book" a little too literally. ? 7y
LauraAndTaraAndBooks @OrangeMooseReads 😂😂😂 Well, at least she has good taste, she only tends to eat the books that I'm enjoying the most! 7y
Zelma 😂 that looks pretty darn familiar in my household! 7y
RealBooks4ever Yes, she must. 😻 7y
25 likes5 comments