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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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- The Journey Continues...to Vienna!
- Great Neighbors
- Life is not fair.
- Life is what happens while you're busy making othe...
- Shopping for Tomatoes
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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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1 comment:
first of all...............girls!!! oh my, that was funny. your little mistake made for a very fun (yes, very long) but very funny read and to think of it. Oh my gosh!!!!! well, fun comes in sizes and shapes. Just keep going for it. I remember those large yellow train schedules. We finally figured them out which is not to say they are accurate.
second.... I feel such a longing anf sentimental feeling in my heart. A year ago tomorrow we hauled our two ravel suitcases out to the town car and floated off to the airport for the beginning of our 5 week adventure to spainfranceitaly. and seeing the scenes from "Vercelli" I really felt my body go back to the doorways and facades and colors and little bistros and the shoes in the windows and the everything italian.The winding roads/paths in the hill towns.... I actually wish we could leave again tomorrow for something italian but simpler than what we did last year.
In three weeks we will be boarding NW flight to Minneapolis aiming our noses to Iowa, a new baby, open green fields, family, (toni's) a bit of cigarette smoke, bigger cars, donuts not cod liver oil and protein shakes. then michigan. so each to their own vacation package.
anyway,
it is a gorgeous seattle tuesday in sept.... toni off riding jus to ride looking particularly good in her outfit..... and I will follow the small red deaf dog out ot the curb where she will "take her own walk" which she likes to do as I follow with a baggie on my hand.... and the woman across the street will emerge with her tiny 6 year il son looking ravaged as her husband is not speaking to her and seeing another woman (just as a friend) and she is freaked out that their marriage is over which it probably is and we have all been giving counsel on the sidewalk (and my couch for two hours sunday) how to stay calm......then.........into the day who knows what it will bring. Maybe something like your train trip. Lets hope!!!!
AS
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