From Francine Schwarz author: Mayes, Frances Bella Tuscany After reading Under the Tuscan Sky I wanted to read another book by Mayes about Italy. However, Bella Tuscany although written in Mayes’ illustrative style reads more like a travel-log. I woudl recommend it for reading by some one who will be visiting the region as it [...]
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Bella Tuscany
Posted in Nonfiction, Reading Club Reviews, Travel, tagged Italy on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What Italy Has Given to the World
Posted in Nonfiction, Reading Club Reviews, tagged Italy on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Elaine Pasquali author: Cipolla, Gaetano What Italy Has Given to the World This pamphlet is all of 32 pages, but is chock full of Italy’s less widely known contributions to art, music, science, food and popular culture. Basically a lecture that Mr. Cipolla presented to students at St. John’s University’s Italian Club, it substantiates [...]
Under the Tuscan Sun
Posted in cooking, Nonfiction, Reading Club Reviews, tagged Italy, tuscany on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Francine Schwarz author: Mayes, Frances Under the Tuscan Sun Although the plot of the book was different from the movie’s, her descriptions of Cortona made me feel as if I was in Tuscany. So real is her writing that I found myself craving espresso during the day and cappuccino in the evening. I have [...]
Fontamara
Posted in Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, tagged Italy, Mussolini, poverty on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Elaine Pasquali author: Silone, Ignazio Fontamara This novel, set in a poverty-stricken village in southern Italy under Mussolini’s regime, is a classic study of the human condition. The village is being legally robbed of a vital resource, water, that puts their already marginal exhistance at further jeapody. This novel is both heart wrenching and [...]
The Good Wife
Posted in Family Sagas, Fiction, Reading Club Reviews, tagged alcoholism, England, Italy, marriage, Politics on July 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Elaine Pasquali author: Buchan, Elizabeth The Good Wife The title of this book caught my eye because of its similarity to the title of the popular TV program, The Good Wife. The similarities continues with the main characters: a career politician and straying husband (Will) and a wife (Fanny) who sacrifices her own passions [...]
COOKING WITH ITALIAN GRANDMOTHERS
Posted in Charlene's picks, cooking, Nonfiction, tagged cooking, Grandmothers, Italian recipes, Italy on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From Charlene Muhr author: Theroux, Jessica COOKING WITH ITALIAN GRANDMOTHERS American chef, Jessica Theroux, takes readers on a journey through Italy, from Tuscany to Sicily. Theroux’s journey was inspired by Slow Food, an organization founded in Italy, in 1989. Slow Food’s mission is “to promote values in traditional food and preparation and to counteract the [...]
It Happened in Italy
Posted in Charlene's picks, Historical Nonfiction, tagged family, internment camp, Italy, jews, Narrative, the Holocaust, World War II on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Charlene Muhr author: Bettina, Elizabeth It Happened in Italy Elizabeth Bettina’s “It Happened in Italy” is an interesting narrative that emphasizes the acts of kindness and humanity amidst a time of great sadness .Bettina discovers that Campagna, her grandparents small village in southern Italy, had an internment camp for Jews during the Holocaust. These [...]
Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
Posted in biography, Children's, Erik's Picks, tagged Biography, Children's, European History, Fibonacci, Fibonacci Sequence, history, Italy, Mathematics, Numbers on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Erik Schmid author: D’Agnese, Joseph Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci The life of the mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci is simplified with fictionalized narrative in this picture biography for the young reader. From his childhood in 1178 Pisa, where he solved the math problems his teachers gave him in seconds, to introducing Hindu-Arabic Numerals to Europe, [...]
