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dely's books and challenges in 2019
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Em*bedded-in-books* wrote: "How do you do, dely?Am glad to see that you are continuing with your book journey. I have given up. Whatever spare time I get, I utilise to read nowadays.
After a long,, long, long, time I am on Good reads on desktop,, and hence can go through a few messages
I feel as if I am coming back after exile."
Nice to see you again around!
I understand what you mean: when we have less time, we have to decide how to make the best with the time we have. Though I try to keep this discussion updated, I write always less in other discussions. I stopped following a lot of discussions in several groups, keeping everything to the essential.
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Laudato si': Enciclica sulla cura della casa comune 5*English edition: Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home by Pope Francis
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I tre dialoghi e il racconto dell'Anticristo by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov 3*No English edition.
Italian review: /review/show...
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Le cinque persone che incontri in cielo 2*English edition: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Italian review: /review/show...
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La firma di Maria by Livio Fanzaga 4*No English edition. An interesting book that talks about the most important Marian apparitions in Europe over the past 200 years. The author also makes connections between the various apparitions and the messages of the Vergin Mary. If you connect these places of the apparitions, you have an M that covers Europe. The country with the most appearances is France. Curious note: if you connect only the French places with the apparition, you will have an M also over France.
Italian review: /review/show...
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Stelle nere by Ryszard Kapuściński 2*No English edition. Reportages written in the 60s about Ghana and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Italian review: /review/show...
Africa Challenge: Ghana and Congo (5/54)
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Nessun amico se non le montagne. Prigioniero nell'isola di Manus 5* but even more if I couldEnglish edition: No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
One of the best books read this year and not only. One of those books I would recommend to anyone. If you don't know anything about the life of this Kurdish refugee, then you have to read the book or look for him on internet. His odyssey as a refugee in Australia is absolutely surreal, inhuman, cruel and absurd. Not only his experience, but also that of other refugees. Shame on Australia and any other country that treats human beings in this inhuman way!
Only Italian review: /review/show...
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Inni alla notte. Canti spirituali English edition: Hymns to the Night/Spiritual Songs by Novalis
I don't rate this book because I already knew that it would have been difficult I would like it. I don't like poetry and I bought this book above all for my son. I tried to read it to see if I can get into poetry, but it didn't work for me.
Only Italian: /review/show...
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Apocalisse. Una cristologia per simboli. by Innocenzo Timossi 2*No English edition. It's a comment to the Book of Revelation.
Italian review: /review/show...
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Shalimar il clown 4,5English edition: Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
Only Italian review: /review/show...
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Precious Ramotswe, detective 3*English edition: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
I thoroughly enjoyed it though misteries are not my cup of tea. In addition to the very easy to solve misteries, I liked above all the informations about Botswana.
Africa Challenge: Botswana (6/54)
And with this book I also complete a challenge on another group.
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Ik vind je lief, Mama 5English edition: I Love You, Mommy by Jillian Harker
English review: /review/show...
I forgot to add a book I've read in June.37)
L'ultimo dei Bezuchov by Marco Freccero 3*No English edition.
Italian review: /review/show...
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Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta by Prabhavananda 4*With this book I complete my IR challenge, to read 5 book set in India or written by an Indian author: /user_challe...
Completed my challenge reading Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta by Prabhavananda.
My books for the IR challenge:
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh 4*
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie 3*
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie 2*
Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie 4,5*
Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta by Prabhavananda 4*
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Will be looking out where to lurk your reads for 2020 :)
Gorab wrote: "Most persistent and consistent reading updates on your thread.Will be looking out where to lurk your reads for 2020 :)"
But it was hard to add the updates, I really forced myself to do it! As you can see, this year I didn't add comments for each update, but only the link to my review (if I wrote one), and this year I've written nearly only reviews in Italian and less reviews in English or Italian/English.
And I still have to read one book to complete my yearly challenge!
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L'oxello Peian e altre favole di Liguria by Giovanni Meriana 3*Last book of the year and I must admit that I read this short book of local fables only to complete my challenge. It had nice fables with really cute illustrations.
My year in books 2019:/user/year_i...
40 books
9,051 pages
Here my best books for this year:
Fiction: Don't Tell Me You're Afraid by Giuseppe Catozzella
Non-fiction: No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani
Other books I liked:
Shalimar the Clown
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
I passeggeri della terra by Nicola Zolin
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Girish wrote: "Congratulations Dely on a great reading year! And congratulations for maintaining a regular reading log."Thank you! Keeping regular updates hasn't been easy due to lack of time, but I'm glad I did it. Not sure about 2020 though.
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Books mentioned in this topic
Shalimar the Clown (other topics)I passeggeri della terra (other topics)
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison (other topics)
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (other topics)
Don't Tell Me You're Afraid (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Nicola Zolin (other topics)Behrouz Boochani (other topics)
Giuseppe Catozzella (other topics)
Giovanni Meriana (other topics)
Salvatore Liggeri (other topics)
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English edition: [book:Snow Flower and the Secret Fan..."
Had read this one a long ago.
How do you do, dely?
Am glad to see that you are continuing with your book journey. I have given up. Whatever spare time I get, I utilise to read nowadays.
After a long,, long, long, time I am on Good reads on desktop,, and hence can go through a few messages
I feel as if I am coming back after exile.
GR app has made me stay away from the webpage.
Can only update books and do some perfunctory conversation via the app.