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Forbidden games

The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ È spietato. È feroce. È di una disarmante tenerezza, senza essere favola, senza essere fiaba. È tanto originale. Soprattutto è di una modernità che pare fantascienza. Perché GIOCHI PROIBITI venne scritto nel 1947, la seconda grande guerra era terminata da poco, la gente si leccava ancora le ferite, aveva gran voglia di vivere, e prendeva coscienza piena dell’orrore. Oggi siamo ancora...

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The history of Rock

“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...

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Histoire du fils

The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Di questo Storia del figlio in un’estate tanto afosa quanto insopportabile ricorderò soprattutto la freschezza delle parole. I giochi di sostantivi, verbi, aggettivi, articoli, pronomi, e tutte armoniosamente insieme, capaci di rappresentare sensazioni plastiche e vive, che si fan poi emozioni. Disegni acquarellati, oppure geometrici, come nel miglior Broadway Boogie Woogie di quel Piet Mondrian che disponeva solamente i...

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Misty Copeland

“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...

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Formidables

“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....

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The crack and the light

“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...

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Tower

“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...

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The wonders

The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ Anche qui: perché? Perché ho cominciato a leggerlo, perché Le meraviglie – queste, in particolare, e non altre, fatte di altre parole, di altre storie, di altre suggestioni, di altro… Questo Le meraviglie, edizioni Einaudi, di Elena Medel, poetessa e scrittrice spagnola che non conoscevo, è un romanzo corale, un romanzo di formazione, un romanzo difficile. La traduzione in italiano è...

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La fortuna

The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ La si ama o la si odia. Non c’è un grigio nei sentimenti che si possono nutrire per Valeria Parrella. Proprio non c’è: è una questione di bianchi o di neri. Lo credo con forza, e per questo son partito con l’amare: io faccio parte di quelli che son stati mosche dentro la pancia di quella sua balena; così...

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The houses with red roofs

“He ended up in a mental hospital because he didn’t know where to go.” Taking his cue from the sale of the grandmother’s house in Ancona, the author retraces the footsteps of memory on the nearby asylum with red roofs (hence the title). To support him in the story, the search for medical records and the return to the houses with red roofs after many years, when the structures are now used for another use....