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Maria Grazia's favorite quotes

"The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."— Italo Calvino

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Maria Grazia's bookshelf: read

Jane Austen's First Love

by Syrie James

Syrie James confirms her skills as brilliant story-teller and creator of lively pictures of Regency life. Well-researched historical novel as well as delightful summer read, her new Jane Austen’s First Love is based on an imaginative ...

tagged: austen-inspired, historical-fiction, romance e read-in2014

Giorni di spasimato amore

by Romana Petri

Romana Petri is an exceptionally good writer and a translator from Portuguese. Her "Giorni di spasimato amore" is perfect in its moving semplicity. In wartime, Antonio meets a beautiful girl, Lucia. They bump - or better crash - into e...

tagged: italian-books, romance e read-in2014

Non so niente di te

by Paola Mastrocola

"Non so niente di te" (I know nothing of you) is the story of Fil, Filippo. His parents are sure he is studying at Stanford University, US, instead he is in Oxford, UK, where, they hear, he was supposed to present his new project on ec...

tagged: italian-books e read-in2014

Jane Austen and Names

by Maggie Lane

"They say his name is Henry. A proof of how unequally the gifts of Fortune are bestowed — I have seen many a John & Thomas much more agreeable. " (from J. Austen, Letters) What's in a name? According to William Shakespeare - or better ...

tagged: austen-inspired, non-fiction e read-in2014

The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

tagged: read-in2014, classics, theatre, american-literature e american-theatre

Urbino, Nebraska

by Alessio Torino

tagged: read-in2014 e italian-books

City of Heavenly Fire

by Cassandra Clare

tagged: fantasy, read-in2014, romance, supernatural e ya

Apnea

by Lorenzo Amurri

tagged: italian-books, autobiography, non-fiction e read-in2014

Prima che tu mi tradisca

by Antonella Lattanzi

tagged: italian-books e read-in2014

Come un respiro interrotto

by Fabio Stassi

"Come un respiro interrotto" is such a complex narration which makes it quite impossible to tell you thoroughly what it is about. It is a choral narration, with numerous voices and many points of view. It is the story a woman, Soledad, S...

tagged: italian-books e read-in2014

Allegiant

by Veronica Roth

After reading Divergent and watching the movie, I was too curious to know what happened next, so I provided my iPad with the ebooks of the two sequels which completed the Divergent trilogy and was more than willing to take up the journe...

tagged: dystopian, read-in2014, ya e science-fiction

Insurgent

by Veronica Roth

tagged: dystopian, read-in2014 e ya

The Slave

by Pauline Montagna

A real page turner. I was first drawn to it by the original love story the author proposes as the main feature in the plot. A young woman from a rich Italian family doomed to obey her father first, then her husband, the man his father c...

tagged: historical-fiction, read-in2014 e romance

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings". Probably John Green had this line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in his mind while trying to give his beatiful love story a proper title. But more...

tagged: modern-romance, read-in2014, ya e romance

Urban Grimshaw And The Shed Crew

by Bernard Hare

Leeds in the 1990s is the setting for this story. Chop is an ex social worker who dropped his job and retreated in a world of drinking and drugs, living at the margins of society. It is in those unfortunate situation that he meets Urban ...

tagged: read-in2014, autobiography e social-themes

Divergent

by Veronica Roth

Just finished reading Divergent by Veronica Roth and now I'm ready to see the movie coming out on April 3 (here in Italy). What is it with these YA novels? I know I’m definitely not the intended demographic but… 1. They are fun 2. They a...

tagged: ya, dystopian, read-in2014 e romance

Gli sdraiati

by Michele Serra

It is a small Italian book titled "Gli sdraiati", in English something like, the lying down, or "those flat on their backs". Anyway, the mentioned book is about a father and his relationship with his teenage son. Yes, teenagers. They ...

tagged: read-in2014, italian-books e non-fiction

Shadow of Night

by Deborah Harkness

tagged: fantasy, historical-fiction, romance, supernatural e read-in-2013

Jawbreaker - Unlock the (U)niverse

by Jolene Stockman

Teenagers aren’t the easiest people you can find yourself dealing with. It’s the word of an expert, meaning someone with long-lasting experience not someone with an answer to any question. As a teacher to teenagers, I’m still and co...

tagged: non-fiction, read-in-2013 e ya

Happy Birthday, Mr Darcy

by Victoria Connelly

Happy Birthday, Mr. Darcy is the fifth installment in the Austen Addicts series by Victoria Connelly. I've read and loved them all, could I miss this new one? A delightful novella set in the magnificent Purley Hall, where two of the l...

tagged: austen-inspired, modern-romance e read-in-2013

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