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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The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling …
Nick Jaina's novel is filled with wonder, sadness, reflection, and a thousand on point observations. It was a joy to read.
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of …
This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America.
"The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into …
The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American …
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
A seasoned birder and naturalist, Lyanda Lynn Haupt is well versed in the difficult and …
I am a sucker for books about 18th and 19th century composers... less so about ornithology. So it was a pleasure to put myself in a position to learn a few things about birds. Particularly the starling. I'd like to think that there are also bird obsessives who enjoyed learning a few things about Mozart. Maybe we should all hang out.
The book is very well written, by the way. The author did a wonderful job of putting all of it together. There isn't a lot that's known about Mozart's pet bird, just a few scant mentions. However, Haupt did an excellent job of investigating and deducing what living with a starling would have been like for the Mozart family.
Today, the word is nearly ubiquitous: seeming to have come out of nowhere to dominate the discussion, from permaculture to …
