“We were fine, even if we had little. And maybe that’s not bad...” We chose this book to open the second season of the “Stazione BooktoMi” festival because it is the one that more than any other new release in the last period makes the desire to return to the normal life we knew until March 2020 at its best: being together, hugging and sing at a concert until you have no more voice. Focused...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: empatia, amore, amicizia Tecnica delle illustrazioni: acquarello, inchiostro e matite Età consigliata: 3-10 anni Non conta quante sono le pagine, ma la storia che il libro racconta. Non conta ricordarsi tutte le parole, ma cantare con tutto il cuore. Non conta avere sempre più amici, ma voler bene a quelli che ci sono. Non conta possedere...
“FRIDAY DI-VERSO” “The nights are long and restless for the lonely, for the defenseless.“ What if the hundred years of solitude hadn’t passed in remote Macondo but a little further north, among the fjords of a dazzling and fabulous Denmark? Wars, lovers, apparitions, landscapes so poignant as to be unreal and yet there they are, in front of our eyes, bright. Hearts devoured by passions that are cold as ice and burn like ice; characters...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Mi prendo una libertà e faccio un azzardo: racconto del sentire nato da tre romanzi letti uno in fila all’altro, per fato, ma forse non per caso. Tre romanzi di autori che, non me ne abbiano, non conoscevo e che hanno narrato dello stesso tema: la Lei per antonomasia, la mamma, e con lei dell’infanzia e del crescere e...
“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “No one has ever come out to say – Christ, I’m sick as hell – Nobody, do you understand?” The book opens with a long preface by Fernanda Pivano who with expert wisdom explains why and how Bukowski became a giant of literature: if this is what you want to learn more about, read her, which is better. Is she not nice to you? We too, although, far from any sympathy or antipathy, her merit as cultural ferryman...
“Leggere, leggere un libro. Per me è questa l’esplorazione dell’universo.” (Marguerite Duras)
“Could lies bring happiness?” Dichotomous review, one aspect we liked very much, another much less. An interesting contrast on which we stopped to think perhaps more than necessary, so much so that it took us two days to read the book, over a week to write these words. On the one hand the story told, on the other the author’s stylistic code. But let’s go in order. The story told is that of Olga, a...
