“Capable people, honest people can only end up like this. Either in jail, or abroad, or forced to retire to private life.” A little gem to keep among the dear objects of the Italian language. A novel without too many pretensions, if not to tell a simple story, with characters built on the quicksand of human meanness, a sincere mirror of society. Two stories written in different periods that offer a clear point of view...
“FRIDAY RE-VERSO” “August Zollinger understood that another stage in his life was over.” According to Vogler, author of “The Hero’s Journey”, in practice there is only one story, declined to infinity. And you, in fact, could take the stages of this archetypal story and superimpose them quite accurately on the pages of Pablo d’Ors, gaining some satisfaction. Or disappointment. You see. In short, what you would get from it would be a confirmation rather than...
“Everyone lives and loves where he is, how he can and when it happens to him.” A little gem to keep among the precious objects of the Italian language. A novel without too many pretensions, if not to tell a simple story, with characters built on the quicksand of human meanness, a sincere mirror of society. Elegant in its pen and tones, even when it tells ugly stories, the book is a manifesto of the...
“In rock history, Woodstock was the Big Bang.” Second edition, revised and updated of an already iconic work, in which the history of rock music is celebrated. It is not important to be passionate about this genre or not to read the book, on the contrary, it could be the key to falling in love with it and opening one’s own musical / cultural horizons. It is enough to have a keen curiosity for the...
“You will dance in front of kings and queens. You will have a life that most people don’t even imagine.” Who is Misty Copeland? What story is hidden behind the eponymous name of the title, little known to the general public, but which attracted the interest of Cristina Sarto, so much so as to dedicate a book to her? Misty is the American dream told by the distant eyes of a European journalist, and it...
“Stories of people who have done something memorable not in spite of, but through a difficulty, an illness, an accident… ” Agile, pleasant and nice book. Both in format and in content it is easily readable in an afternoon without excessive rush. Enjoyable. We really like Bellati’s idea of collecting in a text the stories of some great names in history capable of leaving their mark despite, indeed perhaps thanks to presumed physical or mental disabilities....
“We live never knowing when something will last…” Reading is good. Having the chance to meet and chat with some authors does a lot of good. We were lucky to have had the opportunity to read and converse with Gemma Calabresi Milite. Getting in touch with the hand and heart that wrote the light words on which the story of memories rests was an unexpected gift. The book has as its main theme that of...
“FRIDAY DI-VERSO” “God had taken back that precarious peace and filled the void of silence. It was still Judgment Day.” It happens to hear combinations of words that, due to strange circumstances, are well suited to an object totally different from the original one. So it was for these: “scenario and substance”. There was talk of a city but they settled on the pages of Bae Myung-Hoon with very elegant grace and timing. So what...
“Mafia does not exist.” Pages to be framed. Take them one by one and wallpaper the walls of Italian schools, so as to remain fixed in one way or another in the minds of the students, even the most distracted. If you have already read Carlo Levi, here we are faced with something completely different, such as the structure and history of the story, the prose and the story and the power of the words...
“I think people who only have good experiences are not very interesting.” Chosen as the book for the second appointment of the GLOB reading group (Gruppo di Lettura Occasioni d’incontro – BooktoMi – BooktoMi), we recommend it for the same purpose to other readers, because it is capable of lighting fires of unexpected discussions. But let’s start with the plot. James Sveck is an apparently normal life boy of the American upper middle class. Close...
