Latest Blog Posts for Dolce Bellezza

• I Was Made for Another World
  on Dec 5, 2016 in Uncategorized
  I took these pictures on a walk last night, and while they are dark (it was past dusk after all), they put me in mind of Narnia. Snow has a way of making me think of that magical place, especially when it covers the evergreens. And Narnia makes me th...
• December Is…
  on Nov 28, 2016 in Minae Mizumura Japanese Literature Japanese Literature Challenge 10
  I saw a post entitled “How to Survive Christmas”, and I thought it was the saddest title I’ve seen in a long time. Survive Christmas? What happened to celebrate Christmas? But, it is no wonder that if we are not careful we are reduc...
• I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb
  on Nov 20, 2016 in Wally Lamb
  Sixty-something Felix Funicello, cousin of the famous Annette Funicello, screens movies for the Monday night movie club which meets at the old Garde Theater in New London. He enjoys this group more than the college kids he teaches, before whom he can...
• It’s A Cruel World
  on Nov 15, 2016 in Uncategorized compassion
  The line at the post office wasn’t long at first. The two clerks were each busy with someone taking what seemed like an inordinately long time. “Incompetence,” I thought to myself. “It’s in every government office I̵...
• Thinking About These Days Following The Election
  on Nov 11, 2016 in Uncategorized Post election thoughts
  Out on the playground are children of every kind: the timid ones, the athletic ones, the popular ones, and the bullies. Most of the time they are able to play together nicely. But sometimes there is anger and hitting and name calling and tears. Hurt...
• The Trespasser by Tana French
  on Nov 11, 2016 in Uncategorized mystery thriller
  It starts slowly, and continues that way, almost painfully so. But then, as only Tana French knows how to do, you are suddenly caught up into dialogue and characterization that is so compelling you must continue to the end. Is beautiful, Barbie-like...
• New Book from Haruki Murakami: Absolutely on Music
  on Nov 1, 2016 in Uncategorized
  About the book: “A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and his close friend, the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Haruki Murakami’s pa...
• My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (Man Booker long list)
  on Aug 4, 2016 in Elizabeth Strout American Literature Man Booker Prize 2016
  This must be the way most of us maneuver through the world, half knowing, half not, visited by memories that can’t possibly be true. But when I see others walking with confidence down the sidewalk, as though they are free completely from terror...
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty (Man Booker Long List)
  on Aug 3, 2016 in Paul Beatty Uncategorized Man Booker Prize 2016
  This may be hard to believe, coming from a black man, but I’ve never stolen anything. This is the very first sentence of the novel, a sentence which immediately sets the tone for the 288 pages which follow. There is nothing subtle to be found i...
• Magical Jungle by Johanna Basford: An Inky Expedition & Coloring Book
  on Jul 31, 2016 in Uncategorized
  On August 9, 2016, Johanna Basford’s latest adult coloring book, Magical Jungle, will be for sale. For those of us who already own Secret Garden, Enchanted Forest, and Lost Ocean, it will be a welcome addition to our collections. But, if it i...

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