Search results

i forgot, just reading "what i love" by Siri Hustvdet

I'm in love with his books, too :p This book is just come out in Portugal, and at the same time in Spain (translated by his wife) and in Italy (I suppose because Rita Desti, the translator, is one of his closest friends). I really hope you'll soon be able to read it, because it's beautiful...

"As intermitencia da morte", the new book by José Saramago. :) :) :)

i've just bought :) :) :) José Saramago, As intermitencias da morte (his last book, he's my favourite writer!!) Pinkola Estés. Women Who run with the wolves Nair, One hundred shades of white

on a desert island? hope it wouldn't be for a long time but i would enjoy one month stay very much :) i would take with me these 5 books... only five?? :( "The bible" for my moral & spiritual survival "Blindness" by José Saramago because it's my favourite book "Les miserables" by...

just bought "l'incontro" (the encounter) by Vincenzo Cerami, an italian writer whom i adore :)

i'm currentky reading "The mermaid chair" by Sue Monk Kid

ok, i didn't want to make a mess :p As Mehasting said, students of english as a second language must learn "phrasal verbs" and their use, and it's not easy to learn them, because when you translate them into your mother language there are many difficulties. it's hard to understand why "run...

don't laugh at me please :D i'm learning english phrasal verbs and i found them really difficult to memorize. but i was thinking that, for example, i remember the translation of "look back" only because i think of Osborne's book ("Look back in anger"). Can you help me to find out any...

Just purchased: Naipaul, A house for Mr Biswas McCall Smith, Morality for beautiful girls Martel, Life of Pi Morante, Menzogna e sortilegio Emmanuel Schmitt, My life with Mozart

thank you, i've just had a quick look on amazon and it seems rather interesting, now i'll check if it's already come out in italy.. there is!! :) Thank you very much, i'm looking forward to see it :)

all sort of good things are well accepted :)

which are set in hospitals, with doctors, patients, nurses and surgeons. I'm just reading "Coma" by Robert Cook and I'm having fun with its settings (perhaps i'm a would be doctor :D ). Have you some books to suggest me? It can be a medical thriller, a sci-fi or romantic novel, or whatever...

i'm just reading two books at once, but i dont' like it. I'm not used to sharing my readings, normally i like to "enter" the word i'm reading about. In this case, one of the books it's in english, and as it's not my mothertongue i findi it rather difficult to get on with it, so i only read...

I've got three of his books at home "The information", "koba the dread" and "other people" but i haven't read them yet :o :o :o Here in Italy his books are published by a good and very important publishing house (Einaudi), at least it's the one I prefer ;) but Amis is not very well known as...

i've just finished reading "In the beginning" by Catherine Dunne, an irishwoman who writes of a woman having to start her life again after her husband leaves her and their three children. it offers a positive message for people having to face up such a situation. Interesting to read.

I'm going on with the reading of "The other side of the story" by M. Keyes, meanwhile I've just begun "Coma" by Robin Cook, a medical thriller

the most interesting and fascinating books i read this summer are "Extremely loud and incredibly close" by Safran Foer and "the sleeping voice" by Dulce Chacòn

i don't know what abridged means (i guess a shorter or simplified one?) but the edition i read (in italian of course!) was the complete one (thousand and more pages) :o but I assure you, thousand marvellous pages. And it's fascinating and there's no page i would eliminate. :)

i'm just reading one book written by this irishwoman, "in the beginning". It's the story of an ordinary woman who finds herself alone to face her life, after her husband left with another woman. She is alone and has to reinvent her life. It was a successful book here in Italy. Many of my...