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... I'm tired of the number of women's crotches that have been seen...
Last night I watched 'Gomorrah', based on the book Gomorra: Italy's other Mafia by Roberto Saviano. The toxic waste dumping part reminded me of Donna Leon's Death in a Strange Country... I have An Anonymous Venetian TBR, ... ... Larsson
Allt är upplyst (Everything is illuminated) by Jonathan Safran Foer
Darkly dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Gomorra by Roberto Saviano (non-fiction)
Över näktergalens golv (Across the nightingale floor )by Lian Hearn
Fröken Smillas känsla för snö (Smilla's sense ... Gomorra by Roberto Saviano
Category 5: Non-fiction
If half of the stuff in this book is true, well, then there seems to be no hope for southern Italy, or maybe the whole of the corrupted nation. You don't want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time either, I tell you.
It ... ... Just the day before, I'd had time to waste before a meeting, ergo Barnes & Noble and the purchase of Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (this for an upcoming book club discussion in May. From Amazon.com, I received a first novel from LT Author Geoff Wyss ... ... the Beats untouched, but I remain optimistic.
Read:
1. Epileptic by David B. from Graphic Novels
2. Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano from True Crime
3. Rich Like Them by Ryan D'Agostino from Authors I've Never Read Before
4 32 stories: the complete O ... ... I keep saying I'll read it one of these days...I think I even got 30 pages in one day...someday!
I've finally started Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano - if the first chapter is any indication, I should be through this one in short order, although I may need to sneak in Palestine quickly ... Not yet over the doorstep but I ordered Gomorra and Ekot från Amathea.
I don't know how known the first one is outside of Sweden but it's about the Italian Camorra and the author lives under life threat. The lit Nobel Prize committee has rejected his request for protection, which has made ... ... it's looking like my library will be wanting both Berlin and Dead Until Dark back on the 23rd - and I do need to read Gomorrah in short order for ER...it looks like we picked a good week for a cold snap!
:)
Another substitution - Skim was originally on my list for both YA and page 1 ... ... 7/4
9. Forensic detective by Robert W. Mann finished 7/14
Notes:
- Finished Gomorrah and put up a review. Will work on CK.
- Finished Fake and KrisM in 999 Challenge : Jebronse's 999 Challenge (Jan 3, 2009, 5:03pm) ... Kaputt
Sandro Veronesi - Kalme chaos ** book much better than film **
4 stars
Roberto Saviano - Gomorra
Curzio Malaparte - De huid
Italo Calvino - Een dag op het stembureau
Alessandro Baricco - Dit verhaal
Erri De Luca - Montedidi
Carmine ... ... >
5.2 Fortellingen om Bergen by Willy Dahl DONE
5.3 Dr Munks popleksikon by Ragnar Hovland DONE
5.4 Gomorra by Roberto Saviano (but in Norwegian, not italian) DONE
5.5 Problogger by Darren Rowse DONE
5.6 Slekten - innføring i ættegransking by Fin Mi ... Sweet - Gomorra! The one I checked and told husband, "I bet I get this one if I'm chosen for a book this month." It may have something to do with the 14 books tagged "mafia" in my library...
:) Non-fiction:
1. Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
2. Gomorra by Roberto Saviano
3. In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 by Mary Beth Norton
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