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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I picked this up at my aunt’s house and couldn’t put it down. Protecting these bastards is clearly a billion dollar industry and sexual harassment is the secret logic behind far too much. I’m grateful for the glimpse that Farrow provides. The man can write too.
The Strange Library (ふしぎな図書館 fushigi na toshokan) is a novella for children by Japanese author …
A bit self indulgent
Every now and then you come across a literary project by a respected author that I don’t think would have been published had it been put forward by someone else. This felt heavy handed and self indulgent. I read this on Kindle, so possibly the material object version of this piece is more satisfying.
"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of …
It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member …
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds …
Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments …
A Magazine Article Spread Across 220 Pages
I appreciated the book and its author for an intrafamily view of the thankfully former president. But it suffers from the fact that what would have been a solid article in the Atlantic or NY Times Sunday Magazine has been lengthened into a book. I don’t begrudge Mary Trump the paycheck, she deserves it for putting up with her family, but I wanted this book to be more than it was.
I badly wanted this to be more like Diane Ackerman’s “A Natural History of the Senses.” Everyone should read that book. This one had its moments but failed to deliver on its promise.
"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In …
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a …
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling …
"The second, thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, …
