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Sono Americano e il mio Italiano é molto fuori di pratica. Studiavo per un anno al'Universitá di Bologna più di venti cinque anni fa. Italo Calvino é il mio autore Italiano favorito. Oh, wait, seems like a fairly international crowd here.
Over on Mastodon, I'm: @alex_galt@mas.to I'm not sure how to connect this thing to that thing.
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Alex rated Handmaid's Tale: 5 stars
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
It is the world of the near future, and Offred is a Handmaid in the home of the Commander and …
Alex rated Gulliver's Travels: 4 stars
Gulliver's Travels by Malvina G. Vogel, Jonathan Swift, Pablo Marcos, and 1 other
A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and society. Nominated as …
Alex rated Julius Caesar: 4 stars
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar) is a history play and tragedy by …
Alex rated Griffin and Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1): 3 stars
Griffin and Sabine (Griffin & Sabine #1) by Nick Bantock
Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence is an epistolary novel by Nick Bantock, published in 1991 by Chronicle Books in …
Alex rated Portnoy's Complaint: 3 stars
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint is a 1969 American novel by Philip Roth. Its success turned Roth into a major celebrity, sparking a …
Alex rated All the names: 4 stars
José Saramago: All the names (2001, Harcourt)
All the names by José Saramago
Senhor Jose is a clerk at the Central Registry, where records are stored on the birth, marriage and death of …
Alex rated Walden - Ovvero Vita nei boschi: 4 stars
Walden - Ovvero Vita nei boschi by Henry David Thoreau
Walden (; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer …
Alex rated Still Life with Woodpecker: 3 stars
Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
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Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of …
Longitude by Dava Sobel
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to …
Alex rated Speaker for the Dead: 2 stars
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, an indirect sequel to …
Alex rated Green Eggs and Ham: 4 stars
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
DESCRIPTION: Sam-I-am tries to persuade the character in the top hat to try green eggs and ham.goodreads.com: “Do you …
Alex rated Aesop's fables: 4 stars
Aesop's fables by Aesop (Oxford world's classics)
Alex rated A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 3 stars
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Richard Ellmann
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman …