SNOW FEATHERS

One of my favorite idioms in English is "burn your bridges" , meaning to do something with the result that you will not be able to...

It has been my first encounter with Siri Hustvedt ( the surname has Norwegian origins) and I am sure I will be reading some of her other boo...

2012 is definitely the year of challenges ... reading challenges! I have decided to join EIGHT and now I am wondering whether I will be ab...

Juu-nin to-iro is a Japanese proverb meaning that everyone has their own tastes. For the next months, my tastes will coincide with Bellezz...

      Do you believe in haunting ghosts?    This is quite a creepy book to read, and I stopped reading it a few times, probably beca...

“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.” This may seem incredible - and it actually is - but ...

The 23rd of April is not just Shakespeare's day or birth (and death), it is also this year's World Book Night . There are huge ca...

Disturbing memories can ruin one's ordinariness. This is my 5th or 6th Barnes, and definitely not my last, since there are already two w...

- Eu sunt Bing. - Eu sunt Elefana, nu ti-am spus? De peste un an de zile imi comand cartile de pe Elefant.ro , cea mai mare librarie online,...

Every few years I stumble upon a book that turns out to be just... PERFECT! "The Museum of Innocence" is such a book, and I can...

Ce soir-là, je ne redescendis pas sur le trottoir. Je regagnai ma chambre habituelle et me livrai à une introspection minutieuse. La conclus...

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...