“Sometimes just being with someone helps you grow.” Although we really like the author’s style, with its dilated times, inside and outside the thoughts of the protagonist, able to indirectly tell the essence of Japanese culture and lifestyle, this time we have found the initial part of the story too long. A penance not deserved by the reader, like a long airport runway, which the plane is forced to travel to the last centimeter of...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Come resistere a un romanzo il cui titolo recita “Quattro galline” ? Io non sono riuscito: questa nuova scrittrice americana, Jackie Polzin, alla sua prima opera di parole, è stata davvero capace di catturare la mia attenzione. Lei, la copertina nera con una avvenente gallina di razza Dominicana, un geroglifico nero in campo bianco-crema, cresta e piccolo bargiglio rosso,...
“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “There was nothing I could say about that world except that I had known it, that it had been mine, that it still was.” Cosidering that there is a lot to talk about, here is a brief summary of the plot: forced by her father to separate from his beloved Jade, David Axelrod sets the family home on fire, with nebulous and somewhat delusional purposes. Here it begins: for four years, two of...
Corso di Porta Romana, for many centuries the center of city elegance, was the place of choice for the construction, in 1803, of a new large theater. The area was that of the former convent of San Lazzaro, purchased by Giuseppe Carcano, who had already opened a private theater in his palace in 1797, a space that soon became insufficient to accommodate the large audience that attended it. To build it, the architect Luigi Canonica...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Adoro le parole scritte che si stemperano nel bel mezzo degli ingredienti nella descrizione dei cibi che prendon vita. Vocali e consonanti insieme alla farina, allo zucchero e al sale. Al fianco dell’olio. Perfino con la maionese. Lo trovo un connubio talmente magico da diventare uno sposalizio bello e buono. E questo accade sia per il fascino che la mescolanza...
“True beauty is always a little creepy.” Classic among the classics of training books, first printed in the early nineties, destined to remain over time, thanks to the topics covered: love, sexuality, friendship, responsibility, social recognition. In other words, what other writers, in other times, would have defined the shadow line. The story is set in a small college in Vermont, where six students of different backgrounds (even if some of them do everything to...
“The new rich rarely feel full.” Original theatrical text, out of the usual literary production of Ignazio Silone, but without giving way to a lower quality of the work. Winner of the Campiello Prize in 1968, the book collects the best of the author’s intimate poetic house, digging with his bare hands into one of the themes most dear to him: the relationship between man and the Church. To do this he makes use of...
Written by the bookclub of BooktoMi and Laboratorio Formentini This review is available only in the original language _____________________________________________________________________________ di Rosaria Alba Fontana: Nel racconto autobiografico “Per Esmé: con amore e squallore”, l’autore rivela a Esmè di essere uno scrittore di racconti. La ragazza gli chiede di scrivere una novella esclusivamente per lei e poi aggiunge che le interessano le storie che parlano di squallore. È questa la chiave di lettura dei racconti di Salinger. Descrizioni feroci di...
“Pain, when it comes, is not at all what we expect it to be.” Self-criticism: it may be that we did not understand the book, it may be that we were not able to immerse ourselves completely in the spirit that the writer wanted to convey to us, but we were disappointed by the text. We decided to open this writing in this way out of respect for the story told and for the writer’s...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Apro a caso, pagina 174: “…una cosa che ha imparato è che innamorarsi disperatamente, perdutamente è in realtà un processo molto selettivo…” L’avevo acquistato appena comparso nel radar degli occhi, circa un anno addietro; un poco per quella sua copertina molto Iris Apfel, occhiali grandi tondi e arancioni, capello corto, maglione a collo alto; un poco per quel titolo...
