July 7, 2009
As Kim and I were sitting in front of one of the many gelato places, eating our cones, she said:
"Some people watch pretty girls walk by; I like to watch the ice cream cones walking by..."
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The experiences of Kim and Rachel on their one year sojourn in Alessandria, Italy. They have come to Italy not knowing the language or anyone....And now, since June, 2009, they have returned home and life goes on...
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- Another Birthday To Remember...
- A Fun Visit
- Some Things Italiano...
- 4 AM THOUGHTS
- 24 Years!
- What a day will bring...
- More Culture (we are in Italy after all)…
- A Guest...NOT!!!
- A "Good" War
- Art, Culture, & dare I say…TV??
- A View of Turin....
- An Over-Due Introduction
- Off to Turin
- A little more about Alessandria...
- A Question?
- The Daughter of the Engineer comes through…
- Today's Quote...
- Never look a gift horse in the mouth...
- Saturday Market
- Picture Demands
- Happy Birthday USA and please forgive this sinner
- Happy Birthday, Dad
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Books We've Read While in Italy
- 30 Days in Italy; True Stories of Escape to the Good Life, edited by James O'Reilly
- Acupuncture 1, 2, 3, by Richard Teh-Fu Tan (R)
- Art of Palpatory Diagnosis in Oriental Medicine, by Skya Gardner-Abbate (R)
- Bad Girl, by Mario Vargas Llosa (K) ***
- Baudalino, by Umberto Eco (K) ***the part about Alessandria was interesting!
- Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamont (R)
- Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell
- Border Songs, by Jim Lynch (K)****
- Broker, by John Grisham (R)
- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande *****
- Death Of An Englishman, by Magdalen Nabb
- Death of an Ordinary Man, by Glen Duncan
- Delirium, by Laura Restrepo (K) ****
- Donna Leon Mysteries: Friends in High Places, Death in a Strange Country, Aqua Alta, Noble Radiance, Death & Judgement, Willful Behavior, Through a Glass, Darkly
- Echo Makers, by Richard Powers ***
- Ender's Game, by O. Scott Card (R)
- Enormous Changes At The Last Minute, by Grace Paley (R)
- Faceless Killers, by Henning Mankell
- Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (R)
- Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz (K) *****
- Good Dogs Do Stray: Memoir of an Immigrant from Hungary, by Emmerich Koller ****
- Hopeful Monsters, by Nicholas Mosley (K) **
- I Hope You Have A Good Life, by Campbell Armstrong (K) ***
- Independence Day, by Richard Ford (K) ***
- Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali *****
- Japanese Acupuncture, by Birch and Ida (R)
- Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons (K)
- Life of Pi , by Yann Martel *****
- Lucky You, by Carl Hiaasen (R)
- Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchatt (K) ***
- Mrs. Zhivago of Queen's Park, by Olivia Lichtenstein (K)
- My Brother's Madness: A Memoir by Paul Pines (K) ***
- Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, by Umberto Eco (K) **
- Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco (R)
- One Mississippi , by Mark Childress ****
- Other Boleyn Girl, by Philippa Gregory (R)
- Portrait of a Killer, by Patricia Cornwell (R)
- Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Moher Raised Ten Kids on 25 Words or Less ****
- Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
- Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen
- Song Yet Sung by James McBride (K) ****
- Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain- and How it Changed the World by Carl Zimmer (K)
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessi (K)***
- Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski****
- Strip Tease, by Carl Hiaasen
- Stupidest Angel, by Christopher Moore (R)
- Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens (R)
- Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena De Blasi (Rachel says Yuck but Kim says ooooh but Venice...)
- Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaleid Hosseini *****
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin*****
- Two Caravans, by Mariana Lewycka ***
- Wailing Wind, by Tony Hillerman (R)
- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (K) ***
- What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt ****
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris****
- Zorro, by Isabel Allende (R)
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