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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 Holidays on Ice: 4 stars
Alex rated The jungle: 4 stars
The jungle by Upton Sinclair
The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they …
Alex rated Let's explore diabetes with owls: 3 stars
Let's explore diabetes with owls by David Sedaris, David Sedaris
From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing …
Alex rated Jitterbug Perfume: 4 stars
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic.Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until …
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (A New Directions Paperbook)
A fascinating existentialist novel, written in the form of a journal, about a historian who moves to a small port …
Alex rated Three Musketeers: 5 stars
Alex rated The waste land: 5 stars
The waste land by T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of …
Alex rated Shotgun lovesongs: 4 stars
Shotgun lovesongs by Nickolas Butler
"Hank, Leland, Kip and Ronny were all born and raised in the same Wisconsin town--Little Wing--and are now coming into …
Alex rated The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: 5 stars
Slowness by Milan Kundera
Slowness (French: La Lenteur) is a novel by Czech writer Milan Kundera published in 1995 in France, where the author …
Alex rated Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe: 3 stars
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe by Harold Bloom (Modern critical interpretations)
A collection of seven critical essays on "Robinson Crusoe" arranged in chronological order of their original publication.
Alex rated Outliers: The Story of Success: 3 stars
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success is the non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company …
Alex rated The Right Stuff: 3 stars
Alex rated A Clockwork Orange: 3 stars
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess’s most famous novel and its impact on literary, musical and visual culture has been …