Alex rated Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: 3 stars
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Portuguese: Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos) is a fantasy novel by Brazilian writer …
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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.
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Alex rated The Grapes of Wrath: 4 stars
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won …
Alex rated How to travel with a salmon & other essays: 5 stars
How to travel with a salmon & other essays by Umberto Eco
How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - …
Alex rated Left behind: 1 star
Left behind by Tim F. LaHaye (Left behind series)
Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but …
Alex rated Nickel and Dimed: 4 stars
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.
Alex rated Les Misérables ...: Marius: 5 stars
Les Misérables ...: Marius by Victor Hugo
Les Misérables (, French: [le mizeʁabl(ə)]) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is …
Alex rated The Cat in the Hat: 4 stars
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat is a 1957 children's book written and illustrated by the American author Theodor Geisel, using …
Alex rated Fathers and Sons: 3 stars
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Fathers and Sons (Russian: «Отцы и дети»; Otcy i deti, IPA: [ɐˈtsɨ i ˈdʲetʲi]; archaic spelling Отцы и дѣти), also …
Alex rated The Republic: 4 stars
The Republic by Plato
The Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, translit. Politeia; Latin: De Republica) is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning …
Alex rated Another Roadside Attraction: 3 stars
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
What if the Second Coming didn't quite come off as advertised? What if "the corpse" on display in that funky …
Alex rated Around the world in eighty days: 4 stars
Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne (Penguin classics)
Phileas Fogg, a very punctual man had broken into an argument while conversing about the recent bank robbery. To keep …
Alex rated THE SELFISH GENE: 3 stars
THE SELFISH GENE by Richard Dawkins
The Selfish Gene is a 1976 book on evolution by the ethologist Richard Dawkins, in which the author builds upon …
Alex rated Capital in the Twenty-First Century: 4 stars
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer, Ilse Utz, and 1 other
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, …
