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Fancy Language Can Be much Fun. It is quite uplifting from time to time to peruse a book that is not a novel. In fact, it is a book about la...

"Vivaldi's Virgins" is a daring historical novel set in the 18th century in Vivaldi's Venice. It is the story of Anna Mari...

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to m...

Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities" is a poetry-in-prose book, a series of descriptions, told by the Venetian traveller Marco P...

The Bauta is to be considered the traditional Venitian mask, the one mostly used to cover your features, made in a way that it is still pos...

There is no better combination than to read your favorite author while reading for a challenge involving Venice! Does it matter that it is m...

It's carnival time in Venice and since we are not there showing off our expensive costumes, we'd better lean a few things about the ...

“If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is... Venice is better.” (Fran Lebowitz)

The amazing reading challenge that I am hosting together with DolceBellezza is finally here and my, the number of books to be enjoyed is so ...

There's a enticing story behind every blue suitcase ...

This is a very sad book, but not entirely. Life: still possible after betrayed love. Here's a very insightful interview with Julie Metz...

Most French authors write with a humour and charm that is so typical of them and David Foenkinos is no exception. "Nos Separations...

My third book by Jeffrey Eugenides and definitely my favorite, and one of the best reads of 2011! Life is about loving and learning. The New...

My first encounter with Joyce Carol Oates ' work has been rather disturbing, since this novella is not something one would truly enjoy r...

Everybody has heard of Charles Dickens, one of the greatest writers in English literature and I dare say, everybody has read one or more of ...

I have been planning to read "The History of Love" for more than a year, but it "strangely" happened that I decided to d...

I could not have resisted this challenge, simply because the majority of writers I use to read are European, and there are so many books by ...

My newest discovery :) Meme started by Bellezza.

Birgit from The Book Garden has written a book and she has kindly sent me a copy. What a great surprise! I found the story quite uplifting ...

I have decided to join one more challenge, the one hosted by Birgit from The Book Garden , since huge tomes seem to be a problem for me, alw...