Sometimes I give the impression that I worry about my age. And sometimes I do. I reckon I’m about four years off well-meaning relatives and domestically-blissed friends wondering out loud what I’m going to DO about ‘finding a MAN so I can have CHILDREN’ before it’s ‘TOO LATE’. I think it’s more the anticipation of this annoyance that [...]
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S is for Sicily
Posted in Andrea Camilleri, Books, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, murder mystery, tagged books and men, following a series, reading fantasies, the balloon-shaped swell of reading joy on 31 December, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Books 22 and 23: The Patience of the Spider and The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri
Posted in Andrea Camilleri, Books, Books and Television, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, murder mystery on 9 October, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What is it about some novels that make you want to travel to the places they depict? It’s not just well-told descriptions of place, although that helps. It’s something deeper, a heartfelt emotional connection with the characters and stories of a particular setting; with characters who are likewise intricately entwined with their surrounds. I was [...]
Book 7: Rounding the Mark, Andrea Camilleri
Posted in Andrea Camilleri, Books, Books and Television, crime, Inspector Salvo Montalbano, Reading on 8 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If ever I wanted a character from a book to be real and whisk me away to their world, then Inspector Salvo Montalbano is the one for me. I want to swoon into his arms and have him carry me to Sicily and we will live in his villa by the ocean and eat broccoli pasta and [...]
