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#34 of 2025!
Started: 10/7/25
so-soOn the whole, the writing, the anecdotes, and the information on, in particular, Italian art make this worth a read. But I‘m afraid I find Cusk, in this book, to be very judgemental and scathing of anyone who isn‘t a middle-class arty type like she is, so I couldn‘t settle into this memoir of a three-month extended holiday in Italy.
so-soBoring. 😴 I almost DNF several times. This is a stroll through Renaissance art in Florence, Venice and the mixture of art and culture in Istanbul. All disguised as a rather slow chase of Robert Langdon by unknown pursuers. Brown even takes time to mention two ugly sculptures in the Boboli Gardens through which a lengthy portion of the chase ran. I love art and art history but yeah...Plus, a great deal about Dante and his Divine Comedy.
#litsylove
Sunday afternoon coffee & a book. It‘s beautiful on the porch-quite the juxtaposition of summer & autumn. Blue cloudless sky, 81 degrees but no humidity, the leaves on the trees turning.Loving this peaceful time. #beautybreak #75Soft
I never really read horror but am looking forward to this one for my #bookgang readalong #sundayfunday
My bedtime reading companion. Back in Venice with Commissario Guido Brunnetti.
Hi Everyone! I have missed you all and all the news about what you are reading. At the same time it's a lot. Along with everything else. So I had to check out for awhile. But I just passed my 9th #Litsyversary a few weeks back so I just wanted to check in and see how things were going. I hope you all have been well and gotten some good reading done! This is the #chunkster I am currently working on. Well worth the length!
pickA book that has been on my shelf for years and it was a lovely read in which in a series of short tales we are in the world of a small post war Italian village where the eponymous priest does constant battle with the communist mayor. As Don Camillo converses with the god on the crucifix in his church, he is constantly admonished or dissuaded from using physical force on his rival, but invariably, Don Camillo finds his fist or his cunning works.
