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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 Great Expectations: 4 stars
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an …
Alex rated Foucault's Pendulum: 5 stars
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
En el año 2002, el estudio central de la Cadena SER se transformó en la nave del misterio. Con la …
Alex rated Bird by Bird: 4 stars
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes from a family story when …
Alex rated The Princess Bride: 4 stars
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Princess Bride is a timeless tale that pits country against country, good against evil, love against hate. This incredible …
Alex rated Labyrinths: 4 stars
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges (A New Directions paperbook -- NDP186)
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is …
Alex rated Naked Lunch: 2 stars
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch (sometimes The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American writer William S. Burroughs. The book is structured …
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 Moon palace: 4 stars
Moon palace by Paul Auster (Contemporary American fiction)
Alex rated The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: 3 stars
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein about a …
Alex rated The Remains of the Day: 5 stars
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take …
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 …
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 …
