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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 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: 3 stars
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Read John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in Large Print. All Random House Large Print editions …
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the …
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Black women writers series)
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from …
Alex rated Look to windward: 4 stars
Look to windward by Iain M. Banks
It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war.
It led to the destruction of two suns …
Alex rated Cat's Cradle: 5 stars
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it …
Alex rated The Catcher in the Rye: 5 stars
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New …
Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics …
Alex rated The Complete Maus: 5 stars
Carrie by Stephen King
A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high …
Alex rated The shipping news: 4 stars
The shipping news by Annie Proulx
When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just deserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the …
Alex rated The Divine Comedy: 4 stars
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia Italian pronunciation: [diˈviːna komˈmɛːdja]) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. …
Alex rated Cryptonomicon: 4 stars
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, set in two different time periods. One group of characters …