Some more difficult reading this month. There is the continuation of the journey through Dante’s Inferno, and the rest of Marx’s Capital.  L’inferno- Dante  (1321) Continuing

Some more difficult reading this month. There is the continuation of the journey through Dante’s Inferno, and then the start of Marx’s major opus- Capital…

This has been a VERY tough month for reading. The three books that took the majority of the time during the month: Canzoniere, Fascist Doctrine, and

Neve, cane, piede- Claudio Morandini  (2016) Story of an old mountain man/hermit, Adelmo Farandola, who hates being around others. He lives alone high up in an alpine valley,

I try to read one Italian novel, and one history/political theory book per month. I started early on the Italian novel thinking I’d be finished

Starting off 2024 doing some heavy lifting: first I read one of the more difficult Italian novels in Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, then tackled the nearly one-million-word novel,

New year, more books to read. I had nearly finished up my list of novels, but I ran across more that I wanted to read,

I’ve finished up the year having read 71 books. 10 in this month alone. Io non ho paura- Niccolò Ammaniti  (2011) One of my favorite Italian stories

 Le otto montagne- Paolo Cognetti  (2016)“Comiciai a capire un fatto, e cioè che tutte le cose, per un pesce di fiume, vengono da monte: insetti,

 Quando tornerò- Marco Balzano  (2021) Story of Daniela, a Romanian mother, who leaves her family to work in Italy.  Her family is an unemployed husband and two