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[mojosmom]

What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm You're probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people's grammatical mistakes make you insane.
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I could not, however, answer the question about which set of books I had read all of, since I hadn't read all of any set!


Next up: Where am I in my current book, when and why?

Where: Venice
When: 1908
Why: "a broken engagement and an abortive academic career"
(Ezra Pound has just arrived in Venice; the book is Ian Littlewood's A Literary Companion to Venice).

I'm also in Washington, D.C., it is September, 1995, and I'm there because I'm an Italian humor writer on assignment. (The book is Beppe Severgnini's Un Italiano in America).

Yet a third. I'm in Venice again, but two hundred years earlier, in 17__. I'm a castrato whose voice isn't all that hot, so I'm making my living in other ways. I've just fallen in with Giacomo Casanova. (The book is Jim Williams' Scherzo).

(If you think you see a theme here, you are absolutely right.)

Comments

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

Please let us know how you like 'Un Italiano in America.' I'm very curious about Severgnini since fsr said she thought of him when picturing Commissario Brunetti.

[mojosmom.livejournal.com]

Here's what he looks like: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Severgnini.JPG/240px-Severgnini.JPG

I enjoyed the book a lot when I read it in English a few years ago. I'm reading the Italian with pencil in hand, underlining all the words I have to look up later! But I'm finding that I'm understanding more than I thought.

[alrescate.livejournal.com]

I suppose he does look a bit like how I envision Brunetti...but not quite. Now that I've seen a picture of him I might adjust my mental image of him as I read 'Through a Glass, Darkly.'

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I was able to answer the last for the set books. My mom was a huge King fan and I read a few of his books in elementary school.

[cathepsut.livejournal.com]

"I could not, however, answer the question about which set of books I had read all of, since I hadn't read all of any set!"
Yep, same here.

And how did we end up being book snobs? I read paranormal romance, for goodness sake! How can I possibly be a snob?

Castrato - have you read the book by Anne Rice about that? Can't think of the title now...

[mojosmom.livejournal.com]

Castrato - have you read the book by Anne Rice about that? Can't think of the title now...

Yes, Cry to Heaven, I enjoyed it very much. Funny, that and Feast of All Saints are two of my favorite books of hers, and neither is part of one of her series.