Italian Teacher, Translator/Interpreter – Custom Italy Travel Planner – Book reviewer
(Play/drama) Genre: History / My rate: 3 stars *** Despite the words in rivers and the looooooong speeches of the two characters, I found some parts to be CRAZY fun!! Despite from the overturning of traditional values and a sort
Genre: historical fiction / My rate: 3 stars America in the 1920s: the wild fun of jazz, the Prohibition and the speakeasies, and a new kind of woman—the flapper. Vera Abramowitz, 18 years old, is determined to leave her
Genre: historical fiction / My rate: 3 stars It’s the story of five Harvard men, the women they loved and the elegant car that came to symbolize their romantic youth. It is also a summation of the American experience
Seated behind a small table full of booklets on a small chair which disappears beneath his imposing figure, in front of the Fifth Avenue Public Library in New York City, a big, blond boy greets anyone who meets his gaze
Genre: Socio-political/Education/Non-fiction; My rating: 3 stars. Cultivating Humanity appeals to classical Greek texts as a basis for defense and reform of the liberal education. The author takes inspiration by the Greek cynic philosopher Diogenes’aspiration to transcend “local origins and group memberships”
Genre: Novel/ Fiction – My rating: 1 star…if possible, zero! Citing Caryn James of “The New York Times” that summarize with: “ ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’, a best seller in France and several other countries, belongs to a distinct
Genre: Non-fiction/Social Science/Crime – My rate: 5 stars!! This gripping and intelligent book of ‘true crime’ recounts not just the decade-long campaign by the 2 magistrates and friends Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino to break the back of the Sicilian