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

Rome and the Mediterranean- Livy (27-9 BC) This book contains books 31-45 from Livy’s collection of histories. They cover the years 201 BC to 167 BC. 

Far from the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy  (1874) I know, you want to say “maddening” rather than “madding”, but that’s not the title. Madding means frenzied. The

In honor of our trip to Rome at the end of the coming November, I’m reading up on Roman history. So I’ve added some history

Each month this year I’m trying to read at least one political/historical work, and one novel in Italian. Unfortunately, the political works, I’m spending a