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- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (299)
- By Stephen Chbosky
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- Persuasione (4724)
- By Jane Austen
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Finished on Jun 22, 2009





Finished (re-read) in Feb 2011




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Quel diavolo d'un capitano Wentworth! -
Ok... non credevo che sarei mai arrivata a dire una cosa del genere ma... Ommioddio, questo libro PUO' competere con Orgoglio e Pregiudizio. Pur essendo già a conoscenza delle vicende (ne ho visto almeno due adattamenti), e pur essendo sotto esame, non sono riuscita a posarlo fino alla fine.
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- Revolutionary Road (2840)
- By Richard Yates
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Finished on Jun 16, 2010





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- Auntie Mame (199)
- An Irreverent Escapade
- By Patrick Dennis
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Finished on Apr 11, 2010





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Gotta Love the Repechage -
All you need to know about this book is: it must be read. The best descriptions I could think of are those that frame this edition of the book, by Rudnick and the son of the Author.. and since I read them just now, I'd be only quoting them, and since I just finished such a witty, sparkling prose , I ... (continue)
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- Since I Don't Have You (7)
- By Louise Candlish
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Finished on Mar 1, 2010





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Grief and rebirth -
I wouldn't say it's a book "not to be missed", cause the prose, the style, the story itself are not particularly original or surprising. But it doesn't have to be: it is a tale about real life, and irrational behaviours, contraddictions. It is about a woman and her endless grief, a pain so deep she ... (continue)
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- L'isola sotto il mare (3058)
- By Isabel Allende
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Finished in Jan 2010





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Regalo graditissimo. Non sono una fan di Isabel Allende, avendo letto troppi anni fa la Casa degli Spiriti, e un racconto fantastico poco memorabile.. infatti non ricordo nemmeno il titolo! Però questo libro è ottima narrativa, che intrattiene per davvero, dipingendo personaggi e paesaggi con maestr ... (continue)
- — Feb 27, 2010 | Add your feedback
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- Dopo lunga e penosa malattia (1839)
- By Andrea Vitali
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Finished on Sep 30, 2009





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- Sanditon - Lady Susan - I Watson (562)
- By Jane Austen
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Finished on Sep 3, 2009





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Sanditon - Lady Susan - I Watson
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incompiutezza... -
E' sempre la solita storia con gli incompiuti: ti lasciano l'appetito insoddisfatto. E questi in particolare.. per un'amante della Austen, scoprire le atmosfere ormai familiari, tinte dell'irresistibile ironia che contraddistingue da sempre l'autrice, leggere di queste vicende così accattivanti e qu ... (continue)
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- Mansfield Park (2884)
- By Jane Austen
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Finished on Jun 18, 2009





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- Marley and Me (480)
- Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
- By John Grogan
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Finished on May 3, 2009





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A book that connects deeply with our lives -
I lost two dogs, dogs that surely have defined my life, in the last two months. They were 11 and 15 years old. I'm almost 23. So I grew up with them, they're there everytime I recall the big moments of my life. I used to rub the butt of one of them as a good luck charm, before big or minor challenge ... (continue)
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- Firmino (9409)
- Avventure di un parassita metropolitano
- By Sam Savage
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Finished on Apr 24, 2009





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Mhmhmhm... -
Non credo mi sia piaciuto, e lo deduco da due cose: il mio dubbio al riguardo,e il fatto che abbia impiegato troppo tempo per finirlo. Le descrizioni entusiaste di Baricco & Company riportate mi sembrano esagerate, ma de gustibus...!!
Il personaggio è depresso e autocompiaciuto allo stesso temp ... (continue) - — Apr 24, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Ma l'amore non finisce (178)
- By Sheila O'Flanagan
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Finished on Apr 8, 2009





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- Three Days of Rain (2)
- By Richard Greenberg
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Finished on Apr 3, 2009





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Quick Thinking -
I never read anything by this author before, and I only knew about this play because of the running show in London, starring one of my favourites actors (check it, it's at the Apollo theater). Before reading it, I discovered that THIS was the play that starred Julia Roberts (and the lovely Paul Rudd ... (continue)
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- L'abbazia di Northanger (4072)
- By Jane Austen
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Finished on Apr 2, 2009





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Un romanzo che parla di romanzi -
C'è un piccolo e sottovalutato film molto recente "Il club di Jane Austen (The Jane Austen Book Club)", dove il personaggio interpretato da Hugh Dancy, un giovane appassionato di fantascienza, si decide a leggere tutti i libri di Jane Austen per far colpo sulla donna che l'ha invitato nel gruppo di ... (continue)
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- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (325)
- By Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Finished on Feb 28, 2009





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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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The tale and the screenplay -
If you saw the movie and liked it, and even more if you didn't like it a lot... read the tale. It's very much different from the screenplay, somehow harder, a lot less romantic, and personally, after reading it, I thought much better of the screen adaptation. They're both very clever stories
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
the only review i read before approaching this book said it was a "new catcher in the rye".
not really.
sure, the Salinger masterpiece is evidently an inspiration, but this book is something different, and modern.
it goes by quickly, it's incredibly straight forward and effective but never gross. ... (continue)
the only review i read before approaching this book said it was a "new catcher in the rye".
not really.
sure, the Salinger masterpiece is evidently an inspiration, but this book is something different, and modern.
it goes by quickly, it's incredibly straight forward and effective but never gross. it makes us see the world through the eyes of a troubled teenager who is absolutely disarming in his accurate and true analysis of the world around him. and in the end, we find out that we're all troubled in some way or another, and we find an unrxpected consolation Un discovering that we're not the only one wondering of some oddities if the world we live in.
when you get to the end of the book you KNOW that "each person is unique and special", but the path that led you to really acknowledge that is so weird that there's nothing cheesy or banal in this conclusion. actually it's a bright, deeply meaningful realization.
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