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Read so far in 2009:
Through a Glass Darkly, Donna Leon
Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson
The Coffee Trader, David Liss
Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on a family farm, David Mas Masumoto
Fear and Trembling, Amelie Nothomb
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Whiskey Rebels, David Liss
French Milk, Lucy Knisley
The Outcast, Sadie Jones
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle (A story of an African childhood), Robyn Scott
Kaffir Boy, an autobiography, Mark Mathabane
Carnet de Voyage, Craig Thompson
Good-Bye Chunky Rice, Craig Thompson
The Sister, Poppy Adam
Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Seeking Province:Old Myths,New Paths, Nicholas Woodsworth (France)
The Scent of Sake, Joyce Lebra (Japan)
The Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Elizabeth McCracken
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, (China)
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, Miles Harvey
The Mistress of the Art of Death, Ariana Franklin (England)
Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, Susan Jane Gilman (China)
Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Spain)
Abandon the Old in Tokyo, Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Japan)
The Push Man and other stories, Yoshihiro Tatsum i(Japan)
Tonoharu, Lars Martinson (Japan)
The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews (Canada) - Orange Prize
The Sweet Life in Paris, David Lebovitz (France)
The Arrival, Shaun Tan
Sidetracked, Henning Mankell (Sweden)
Shanghai Girls, Lisa See (China/USA)
Firewall, Henning Mankell (Sweden)
A Nail through the Heart, Timothy Hallinan (Thailand)
A Serpent's Tale, Ariana Franklin (England)
In the Kitchen, Monica Ali (England)
Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie (Japan, India, Pakistan, US) - Orange Prize
The Blue Notebook, James A. Levine (India)
Little Bee, Chris Cleave (England and Nigeria)
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson (Sweden)
Off the Tourist Trail, Bill Bryson (travel)
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana)
I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do) Mark Greenside (France)
Black Seconds, Karin Fossum (Norway)
Italian Shoes, Henning Mankell (Sweden)
When the Devil Holds the Candle, Karin Fossum (Norway)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Steig Larsson, (Sweden) read for the 2nd time this year
Don't Look Back, Karin Fossum (Norway)
Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (England)
Scottsboro, Ellen Feldman (US) - Orange Prize
Home, Marilynne Robinson - Orange Prize
The Wilderness, Samantha Harvey - Orange Prize
A Sea of Troubles, Donna Leon (Italy)
Mannahatta - Eric W. Sanderson - NYC 1609
American Wife - Curtis Sittenfeld - Orange Prize
Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill - Africa, American Colonies, Nova Scotia
Jar City - Arnaldur Indridason - Iceland
Arctic Chill - Arnaldur Indridason - Iceland
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin - Booker Prize
A Reliable Wife - Robert Goolrick
Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife - Marie Winn
The Convict's Sword - IJ Parker - Japan
The Migration of Moro - Roland Bianchi - Italy
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NTI Upstream wanted to let you know that your author signed Advanced Readers Copy of Coppola: A Pediatric Surgeon in Iraq (for your participation in the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program) has been shipped and should arrive shortly.
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posted by NTIUpstream at 12:32 pm (EST) on Nov 2, 2009
posted by blackdogbooks at 12:06 pm (EST) on Oct 17, 2009
If you want I check your letter first draft, just to see if it makes sense , feel free to let me know, but if I were you I’d leave it with broken grammar, I don’t know why, just a feeling, may be because I will find it more truthful
Here is the link of a little true story, that I found enjoyable , about the best way to visit Genoa
http://www.goworldtravel.com/ex/aspx/art...
The title of a novel set in Liguria is:
Extra Virgin: A young woman Discovers The Riviera, Where Every Month is Enchanted by Annie Hawes (probably “Extra Virgin” is a kind of pun, because we call our best oil extra-virgin oil)
May be next spring we run into each other without knowing we chatted a little on the web,
For the moment all my best for your quest .
So long.
grelobe
posted by grelobe at 6:22 am (EST) on Oct 16, 2009
My wife tought one thing, when you are in Italy you could do some phone calls, saying something like this: sorry to bother you, but I am from USA , my name is Montessoro and I'm doing a genealogy reaserch. By any chance is it
of your knowledge some of your forbears sailed to America about...(?)
( one hundred or fifty or one hundred and fifty) years ago?
As far as the Asian art museum is concerned, I don’t know anything about it; I guess you’re refering to a Japanese museum, but I haven’t ever seen it. I remember my former English teacher (Canadian), once told me she went to visit it and was rather disappointed, she told me it was filled with really cheap stuff, not worth seeing it. (and as far as I was concerned , I haven’t ever known there was a Japanese museum in Genoa, and I still don’t kniw where is it.)
Worth seeing in Genoa, it is its Historical centre, that, is the biggest in Europe.
In May there’s not any particular national holiday (only Labour day; May 1st) but remember you’re in Italy , since the country is not in a great shape, like the rest of the western countries, a strike can be called at any time without warning, from every categories of worker:)
I think you need a couple of days to visit Genoa and one for both Bologna, and Parma and Faenza
I saw that you asked for some literature set in Genoa in the thread “Where are you in the world”, I know a few of them, but they are only in Italian.
In the past Mark Twain and Charles Dickensen visited the city you can read what they said about Genoa in project gutenburg
Here the link , in case you didn’t known it already.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Mark Twain mentions Genoa in The “Innocent Abroad” part 2 chapter XVI
Charles Dickens wrote “Pictures from Italy” He dwelled for a while in Genoa, and you can find his words about Genoa in Chapter III
Of course the city is rather different from their days
Once my English teacher told me about a book, can’t remember whether it was fiction or no-fiction, written by an English .. (man? Woman?) set in Liguria.
The day after tomorrow I meet her and I let you know
All my best.
posted by grelobe at 8:12 am (EST) on Oct 12, 2009
I tried to type your last name on the white pages online (pagine bianche) these are the results
Novi Ligure 33 Montessoro out of 28.500 inhabitants
Gavi 3 Montessoro out of 4.500 inhabitants
Isola del Cantone (Montessoro) 0 out of 1.500 inhabitants
I tried also a few other little town , each of them under 3000 even 1000 inhabitants
Cabella Ligure 1
Tassarolo 0
San Cristoforo 0
Parodi Ligure 0
Voltaggio 0
Borghetto Borbera 0
Cassano Spinola 0
Vignole Borbera 0
Bosio 0
Cassano Spinola 0
Basaluzzo 0
Tornese 0
At least there are not on the white pages
Usually in May we already wear shirt with short sleeves
During week-ends I rarely am on the web, so if something dawn on you out of the blue , or if you want to ask something, and I don’t answer unti monday or tuesday, don’t think I’m impolite :)
posted by grelobe at 8:06 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2009
Probably most of the things I’m going to tell you, are already of your knolowedge. Anyway.
If you already know the town your kins lived, you can go to the graveyard with a pen and a pad, and write down the surname your looking for and the dates birth and death, etched on the gravestone.
Then you can consult the marital status kept by the municipality, that starts since 1866 through our times. If you want an extract of it , you’ve got to fill a form in two copies where you have to say why you need that document (genealogy research is fine) afterward you have to take it to the tribunal court of the county , and after a few days it will be returned to you and now you can return to the town hall in order to get it (but in my opinion in a little town as Gavi Ligure) you dont’have to go through all this ordeal, I think they hand it out to you almost immediately)
If you don’t know neither the birthdate nor other dates, you can ask for an appointment with the chief in charge of this kind of office, and generally he help you to track down the dates you need. Then fill the form and eccetera.
Another important sources are the parish churches, where you can consult
The book of the souls
The book of the births
The book of weddings
Since 1590 on
Once you have tracked down one or more names and dates, you could pay a visit to the notaries officies, who were working in those years to see if your kinship had ever done some will or bougt or sold houses or other deeds.
Out of curiosity: Gavi Ligure and Novi Ligure , once upon a time, where both under Genoa County , but in 1857 there was a rearrangement of various county, and they and other towns were passed under Piedmont region
Besides my mother was born in a town between Novi Ligure and Gavi Ligure, when she married my grandparents moved to Gavi Ligure, and I still have an aunt living there (age 82/83) and two cousins and... you never know maybe they might to know a little piece of your family story.
posted by grelobe at 7:51 am (EST) on Oct 8, 2009
Yes there are more than one source you can make use of, but at the moment I am at work and I can't be very accurate. But I've got a book at home about genealogy research. I will go trough it this evening and tomorrow or the day after I'll be able to give you the tips you need
hoping to be of any help in the future
all my best
posted by grelobe at 3:41 am (EST) on Oct 6, 2009
posted by AHS-Wolfy at 9:34 am (EST) on Aug 30, 2009
The Virago catalog. You already own a lot of them in different editions.
http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/books.a...
The Persephone catalog.
Happy hunting!
posted by romain at 9:30 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2009
Thanks for your message. I presume you find my library interesting because I have a small smattering of Japanese and Chinese books. I'm afraid they're mostly generic titles but I did do a year of Chinese and Japanese History at University level so I have a little knowledge of the countries. What is your interest in the Far East?
Barbara
posted by romain at 6:48 pm (EST) on Aug 19, 2009
Nice to see you are also interested in Japan. We lived there 1986-89 so that is the reason for my books on Japan. I used to read Japanese grammars in bed, before going to sleep...
Good luck with retirement. Finally a time to enjoy your otium! It's great. I think "work" is a bit overrated...
Gambatte kudasai!
Hans
posted by hnn at 3:41 pm (EST) on Jul 20, 2009
posted by discordia at 11:28 am (EST) on Jul 1, 2009
Thanks for adding my library to your list; I'm very impressed by yours, as well! I'm interested in learning about your favorite Japanese authors and books, and anything else you've especially enjoyed.
Best wishes,
Darryl (kidzdoc)
posted by kidzdoc at 7:33 am (EST) on May 17, 2009
This week's is a little harder - to challenge your little grey cells!
- TT
posted by TheTortoise at 7:05 am (EST) on Mar 15, 2009
You are the winner of this week's book quiz - congratulations.
Contact vintage-books to obtain your prize.
- TT
posted by TheTortoise at 6:48 am (EST) on Mar 14, 2009
I'll poke around in it a bit when time allows. (And I share your desire to be retired. Or to find a patron. Neither will happen soon, alas.)
posted by dcozy at 3:54 am (EST) on Mar 12, 2009
and don’t forget to join in my Book Quiz.
- TT
posted by TheTortoise at 12:14 pm (EST) on Mar 10, 2009
www.warrenfrederick.com
and my wife's (who is also a potter)
www.catherinewhite.com
take care
Warren
posted by warrenf at 2:47 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2009
Thanks for adding me to your interesting libraries!
posted by janeajones at 2:44 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2009
The Japanese books came via an online bookstore that no longer exists. The following book is in English and is only $20 available from Paragon Books in Chicago. You might be able to get the Japanese ones via Amazon.jp
www.paragonbook.com
Living National Treasures of Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
9.75 x 9.5", 286 pp., 245 color illustrations, glossary, paper, Boston, 1983. (o.p.; some wear to corners, crease marks mid point of top cover edge)
Catalog of the grand exhibition featuring masterpieces of ceramics, textiles, lacquer, dolls, swords and sword fittings from Japanese museum collections.
Price $20.00
Item # 29231
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
posted by warrenf at 2:27 pm (EST) on Mar 7, 2009
Frigid and blustery on Cape Cod right now. It would be perfect weather to run off to the onsen for a weekend and lie around in the hot springs...
posted by Larxol at 7:54 pm (EST) on Jan 17, 2009
posted by Larxol at 9:08 am (EST) on Jan 15, 2009
posted by nobooksnolife at 3:41 am (EST) on Jan 10, 2009
I see you are a "Japanophile", did you know that the Reading Globally group is doing Japan for their theme read this month? I'll send you an invite to the group so you can find us easily. There are two threads in the groups related to this month's theme. 1. The discussion and recommendation of books for the theme, also readers tend to talk about what they intend to read for it. 2. the discussion itself. Since we all read different books, we post our thoughts on what we have read here. There are also some questions at the beginning that give us some common things to talk about. I know there is also an Asian literature group but I don't know how active it is.
I am also a quilter (and probably would be a Bonsai killer), just bought a new Elna yesterday! There is a quilting group on here somewhere, but since I also knit, embroider...etc, I prefer the needlearts group.
Reading Globally group invite coming! Again, welcome and I hope you enjoy LT as much as I have.
Best, Lois
posted by avaland at 10:40 am (EST) on Jan 9, 2009
posted by bibliobibuli at 5:09 am (EST) on Jan 2, 2009