Review:I think if you were thinking of visiting or moving to Italy, then this book is a must to read. This story gives the more personal side of living in Italy ..... the nitty gritty bits of life in Italy. I found the school sections quite boring though and didn't think they should be in there anyway. The main story was the B & B and I think that should have been the main focus. The chapters themselves were short, which kept the interest. All in all a good story. Read more

Review:Chapter book flimsy paper with black and white illustrations which are few and far between. The cover and pages seem very thin. But the stories are captivating and excite the imagination as you would hope. Read more

Review:So. Challenging. To. Read. I was fighting back tears of boredom. I wanted to love this book, since it takes place in Venice, but I couldn't finish the book. Writing style is bland, slowly paced. I would not recommend this book. Read more

Review:Wonderful writing, illustrations, photos. Great reading for anyone loving Susan Branch or anyone getting to know her. She takes her readers on a voyage to England and all that is wonderful about Englsnd. Read more

Review:a unique time and place so beautifully described
she is driven and passionate about the land, the people and the animals...but also incredibly patient
I am so very glad that she told this story
I've never read a description of safari like hers Read more

Review:Winston Churchill is a giant of history. By coincidence he is also my personal favorite foreign author of non fiction. (I am an American.) His writing style is very florid and reads like fiction rather than non fiction. He uses many illusions and has an ironical sense of humor. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature.

This is a autobiography, composed in mid life, in 1930, but only about his life from 1874 to 1904. As such, the story does not include anything about either World W... Read more

Review:Poilu is an excellent match with "All Is Quiet on the Western Front". This book is an evocation of one soldier's daily penance in the mud, disease, wounds, and death that was the Western Front from 2014 through 2018. It is amazing that he survived with his sanity. Read more

Review:'A fascinating look at the follies of mankind regarding conflict and wars. As I read the book I regretted that Ms. Tuchman was not around to observe the ultimate folly of Iraq and Afghanistan. Following the tragedy of 911 when the powers that be decided that the country needed to go to war in Iraq despite the fact that the real culprits of the attack were located in Afghanistan. This seemed to me to be ultimate folly.

At forest I had a hard time figuring out why Ms. Tuchman chose the th... Read more

Review:One of my favorite books of 2017, Geekerella is something truly special. The story of Elle, who works in the Magic Pumpkin food truck, Geekerella is my first ever fangirl book - now I love fangirl books! Ashley Poston totally schooled me in the art of fandom, an art I've been curious about and didn't quite understand - I was born in the '80s!

Now, since I know what fangirling really is, I realize that I've been a fangirl all my life, of SO many different things. Because of my own intense ... Read more

Review:The book is a towering work and this audio version makes it easier to digest. The narrators style is appropriate but perhaps a little too fast as the text demands your attention - which is why I have only given it four stars, .The book itself deserves SIX stars. If you get distracted for a few moments, you can often find you have missed a key moment in the story. I have tried to slow it down on my iPhone, but the slowed version sounds like the narrator has suffered a partial stroke, and the voic... Read more