Yes, I know I am pretty much a month late for the Q3 round-up party. What can I say? The pandemic has messed up with my internal calendar and my brain still thinks it is July, despite the weather trying its best to bring me to reality. Another factor may be that I was lucky …
Now, just thinking about it, I felt like whipping the air of the pinewood harder and harder, like a child, to evoke the spirits, perhaps to chase them away, and the more energy I put into it, the sharper the whistle became. I burst into laughter, alone, seeing myself like that, a thirty-eight-yar-old woman in …
Continue reading The Days of Abandonment – Elena Ferrante – Quotes
It's been four years since I read the Neapolitan Novels, and I felt like reading some more of Ferrante's dense prose. So as I was doing my monthly online gift shopping at Amazon (one of the things I amuse myself with during lockdown, buying gifts for people) I decided to treat myself too. It is …
Book buying ban is definitely over. I didn't stick to it in April and decided to call it a day, I managed 3 months and that's as long as I could expect. Reading was good in April, I read more serious things than usual, mainly because I was trying to finish the Neapolitan Series and …
The last of Neapolitan Novels and an amazing conclusion to the series. The relationship (I somehow feel more and more hesitant to call it friendship) between Lenu and Lila continues. As in the previous book Lenu before picking the story where she left off reminds us that she's writing it from perspective of years passed. …
Continue reading The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante
After ‘The Story of a New Name’ I needed a break, but I don’t give up easily, so after reading few other books I started on the third installment of the Neapolitan Novels. It was awesome, I devoured the book over a day and a half, I couldn’t stop reading it, I was annoyed when …
Continue reading Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay – Elena Ferrante
How do I say this? Quickly, I guess - I didn't really like this book. It is the second book in Neapolitan series, I read it right after 'My Brilliant Friend' and while I was in Naples. Maybe that was part of the problem, that I was travelling and couldn't devote as much time to …
I read this book few weeks ago and I don’t remember all the plot details clearly, but it is one of those books where plot is secondary to characters development. Still a lot of things happen! It is a first book in a series of four, Neapolitan Novels, as they came to be called. The …
I cannot believe it's almost April! Somehow it still feels like the beginning of the year, maybe because I didn't have many resolutions I could break as time passed. March has been full of travels for me, so I didn't have much as time for reading or blogging as I'd like. I love travelling so no …
Wow! I wish I had more than just three days! And I'm definitely going back. 2 weeks ago I spent an extended weekend in Naples, but there is so many interesting things around that in the city itself I only spent the last day. Before I went to Napoli I managed to read the first …
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