Thursday, December 30, 2010

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People reading: Maria Francesca and the magic of Rome

Maria Francesca è veronese, ma ha deciso di farmi un regalo prezioso: raccontarmi una sua giornata a Roma, fra ponti, ciambelle, emozioni e - soprattutto - libri.
Ho usato la parola regalo , e non è un caso: a leggere le sue parole, sembra proprio di viverla Roma, camminandoci, annusandola, scoprendola. E' per questo che non ho tagliato una virgola del suo racconto, accompagnato naturalmente dalle foto "da lettrice".
E allora, buona lettura!

La lettrice è Maria Francesca
Dove: Roma
Quando: dicembre 2010




In mano : 

Michel le Bris, La bellezza del mondo , Fazi, 2010
A. Tagliaferri, V. Varriale, I ponti di roma , Newton Compton, 2007
e... una fantastica ciambella di piazza Navona!

Cosa dice of his literary choices (and its precious journey Roman):

are in Rome for a day and I'm enjoying the pleasure of wandering the streets: map in hand, so many dreams to pull out of a drawer closed and dozens and dozens of roads. Rome, a monument in the open.

What to do?

are in Rome a day after the Trevi Fountain, millions of tourists, he risked being hit at the intersection of the four fountains, leaving the heart on a beautiful dress, in a note boutique on Via Condotti, to which I could not really access or for the price, either for size, alas, I leave this chaotic world, and I shut myself away in the only store where I feel really at ease.

I decide to do more strength. If you have seen I love shopping, you can understand how sometimes have to call us dummies, delicate fabrics, bright colors, the clothes they could wrap the body in soft and sinuous shapes.

So it happens to me with libraries. I am attracted to. I can not help it. The scent books, the covers , the colors .... But above all what they have to say .

Why
I came in? Why am I here?

are in Rome for a day. What do I want? Again: understanding. Understand where I go, what I'm walking, what I'm looking at. But where to start?

from incurable nostalgic history of the streets and affectionate scholar of local events, then I would say a good book on Rome, there would be just fine. Too generic, I need something more specific. Rome is too large to be read in one book. I look around, change of department and I go back to the news section: as I read the description, I think, here, a novel that could do for me. The beauty of world, by Michel Le Bris: two interesting characters in the twenties of the twentieth century do crazy travel from New York to Kenya, the clubs of Harlem. It seems to me that we have: this pair of travelers is the constant search for beauty in the world, at a time different from mine, ok, but still we are talking about research. I'm fascinated by research, a comparison of different histories and cultures, from the intimate confines of the intimate and personal narrative, and personal relationships between individuals, from the mystery of love ourselves and travel, going out, trip after trip. So I decide to purchase the volume.

So why I joined? Oh yeah, right: Rome is waiting for me. But the book on Rome still no trace.

I leave the library and I decide that I want to read my book on the Tiber: from Verona good, I like to read sitting on the bank of the river, even though we are in December and perhaps not a great idea ....

Tiberina Island is magic, Cenci of the Tiber with its trees takes me a dream dimension. On the Sisto bridge I stop to observe, and think ... I find myself suspended over a river on an architectural solution designed to allow people to cross the water from shore to shore: in addition, with their mastery, architects have been able to bridge the excellent observation points the city, places nostalgic, poetic, romantic, and even a bit 'windy as the contact with water. Quid here's the shock. I will start from here, from bridges.

back on my way back to the hotel but a bit 'confused because it's late and are now in Piazza Navona, and libraries are many, too many to turn all of them. In Piazza Navona then there are the stalls of Christmas. A lot of people is mixed, many perfumes, many colors. But I'm glad.

are in Rome for a day and I've found books, people, roads, streets.

"It's nice to live, try to live and believe they can live better by virtue of what can 'happen without even meaning to. "
read this sentence from the book that I carry with me always and for jotting down phrases that strike me. This seems made for this moment.

For behold suddenly a bookstall , many, color, and above all in local history! And all subject to different, even at an attractive price, and it does not hurt! Here's one on the bridges of Rome. The Bridges of Rome, Alberto Tagliaferri, and Valerio Varriale, I tell the bridges, namely the milestones in the history of city \u200b\u200band its river. I allow myself even a donut hot Piazza Navona!

Torno a Verona satisfied, happy, Michel Le Bris, and The Bridges of Rome, with many maps and crumpled a bit 'of wishes fulfilled. I think that inevitably books are magically linked by a thin thread : The beauty of the world, The bridges of Rome .... What is the link? Perhaps the journey, discovery, history, the genius loci ...


Thanks Maria Francesca pearls your beautiful words, and your literary Cruising. But now, I got too much like a donut ...!

Friday, December 24, 2010

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The Librarian wishes you Merry Xmas!


... filled with the Xmas-Books! Just as these.

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol . The book of Chistmas. Not a year goes by that I do not want to read it is ... never able to figure out if I like the most Scrooge appeased or the old one!

John Grisham, Christmas with the Kranks . Hilarious! Surely the funniest book on the subject of my library. Highly recommended for those holidays are a bit 'tight ...

Crimes Christmas (Polillo) and Yellow Christmas (Cairo publisher) are two collections of short stories on the theme, topped by a lot 'of thriller. Because even in this time of death will not go on holiday ... indeed!

always told, but of a different kind, in two other collections: The fourth king
magus (Marsilio), setting to one where are the Natali O. Henry, Pier Vittorio Tondelli and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Christmas stories (Einaudi paperback), translated by the great Nico Orengo, where you'll be spoiled for choice Collodi, Alcott, Dostoevsky, D'Annunzio , Calvin, Maupassant, Nabokov ... In short, a feast for all tastes.

Last but not least, the last purchase of a few days ago: The death follows the Magi by Hans Tuzzi. A headline in the middle atmosphere, even if not a book for Christmas. It will surely be another entertaining reading by this author (actually a pseudonym) which I very much loved, whose protagonist is a commissioner in the Milan of the eighties, the first investigation took place right in the world of bibliophiles ... In short, definitely my kind!

I wish you a wonderful, funny, bookish Christmas. E. .. good reading, of course under the tree!

Friday, December 17, 2010

Brazilian Waxing Protocol

People reading: Alice from Oxford!

I am happy to inaugurate this project with photos of Alice, born in Milan but taken from the beautiful Oxford (sooner or later the Librarian must come and see you!), which I am very grateful not only for being the first to venture on the job, but especially for the enthusiasm that has put us.
no more talk and we talk about the pictures!

The reader is Alice, with her friend Venus
Where: Boars Hill, a hill south of Oxford
When : December 2010







In
hand :

David Grossman, Whether you are for me the knife , Mondadori
Paulo Coelho, Manual of the Warrior of Light , Bompiani
Beniamino Placido, Nautilus. Culture as adventure, Laterza

What he says of his literary choices:

"Knowing does not mean remember, but know what book to look 'and'
a maximum of more that 'I love Benjamin Placido. In Nautilus - Culture as
adventure, the critic has accompanied me on a fun journey through the
modernity. This anthology of articles, I did laugh, think, and I was
discover new realities.

Reading the back cover of What you are to me the knife , I immediately place
realized that I had come across one of those books that you are in for the whole
life. The epistolary relationship between Miriam and Yair is simply amazing.

The manual of the Warrior of Light book is a bit 'antiquated, but it's one of those books that I need
during times of deadlock, in those moments when I can not find
the key to unlock a situation. And now that it takes me
is a collection of philosophical thoughts, libruncolo a 150-page, which is enclosed
tanta umanità.


Un romanzo, un'antologia e una raccolta di pensieri: cosa volere di più? Per quanto mi riguarda, incomincerò subito da Grossmann che riposa tranquillo nella mia libreria in attesa di essere letto.
Grazie Alice, e naturalmente... buona lettura!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Another Side Of Maxine Cartoon

Heterosexual Pride from 'America.

We are often attacked by the homophilic and homosexuals with his usual spiel: " poor homosexuals, food inedible, and offended martizzati; always ghettoized and discriminated against. " Balle, huge bales, everybody knows that. And as a show than it really worth the contrary, comes from the USA 's straight outing of the most famous anchor-woman of the country, Oprah Winfrey who, through her tears, she wanted to shout to the world NOT to be a lesbian.

Brave, because now a lot of doors will close in the face ...

In the link, 's article Cristiano Gatti:

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Christmas is drawing near, the start of the tour-books librarian! The Librarian and the

Una giornata di pioggia, freddo, vento mi ha portata dritta dritta alla Feltrinelli di Padova. Una delle librerie da me in assoluto più frequentate, soprattutto negli anni dell'università patavina. Fuori, le luci di questo Natale ormai sempre più vicino. Dentro... migliaia di libri in attesa di essere gifted.
tail wagging the shelves like a dog hunting for new ones - delicious - prey, I made a broad idea of \u200b\u200bwhat will be my Christmas shopping (just a short post on the subject).
Meanwhile, here's a taste of the day!






with photographers, some already in my library: French Suite (Nemirovsky) , The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Jordan), Ruiz Zafon, Terzani Together ... to others, however, will end up like torpedoes in letter to Santa Claus.
And so, after all this overflowing bouquet of paper, those who have felt the cold, wind and rain?
Again, the books were better than scarf, raincoat and umbrella ... but better to take them, I recommend it;)

Thursday, December 9, 2010

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hibernation

do not know if you noticed, but with the arrival of the first cold, miraculously cease complaints of "aggression" to homosexuals that, with redundant communications, were so much space in the press during the summer months.
The cold has tamed the alleged "homophobia" as alleged, but never defined, recognized or identified with precision objective but only subjective deductions, one-sided and biased?
O at Christmas even the alleged "homophobic" become better people? And if you ever
the first cold had caused homosexuals to flaunt less, with clothes and behavior, their tendency , so as to reduce to zero those that are highly provocative to those who disgust from their events?
I focus on this latest release, confirming what we have long supported.
Nessun limite alla libertà individuale purchè non porti a condizionare le persone con attività di propaganda e purchè non comporti costi per il pubblico (cioè per tutti noi) con, ad esempio, il riconoscimento di una improbabile “reversibilità” per il convivente dello stesso sesso ( nulla quaestio, invece, se uno volesse sottoscrivere a favore del proprio convivente del medesimo sesso una polizza assicurativa privata, totalmente a sue spese, però ! ).
Ma, soprattutto , purchè ognuno manifesti le sue pulsioni in privato , senza manifestazioni o atteggiamenti pubblici che stimolano chain reactions starting with some legitimate joke aloud.

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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Fish Sticks Song Lyric

Polifilo: a love quincentennial ... The sound of a personal librarian look ecciù

Waiting for your photos from readers, I continue with my own! After successful demonstration of the power of reading on the train, I go back to read comfortably ... on the couch. My absolute favorite place, of course, in second place behind the bed.
With me is my book par excellence: the Polifilo. I could only start from that. Inside is all that there must be: compelling plot, mystery, philosophy, art, erotic, passion, and so on and so forth. Definitely not easy to read (though thanks to the magnanimous Adelphi is accompanied by a translation into modern practice), but otherwise what fun would there?
Unfortunately, I do not have those "few" of the money needed to buy 'editio princeps dated 1499 and exit from the press at that illustrious Aldus Manutius of Venice, but until I win the lottery I'll settle Of this (which is however, much more manageable!)
But I must confess a small weakness: when I venture between the dark and dusty rooms on the upper floors of the library where I work, never fails to sneak into what is called "holy of holies" - custore sacred books of the rarest - and let visit to the ancient original at least for a few minutes. It 's so that this happens so my nose was created: smell. And now, whatever has happened to me during the day, I feel a bit' more relieved and light. Question of fact liber taumaturgicus (I will pass the license maccheronica Latin!) Or by the miraculous powers, able to cure the soul and spirit ...
... a little 'less than the physical, especially after a good sniff from someone like myself, has the misfortune to be allergic to dust mites: the concert begins ecciù . But although we are still five hundredth of product, they are forgiving. And definitely worth it.




In hand Francesco Colonna (?) Hypnerotomachia Polophili , reprint Adelphi, 2003.

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people reading!

Dear readers, today this post is dedicated to you.
you who love to read, touch the paper, sinking into a book.
Since no day goes by without someone in one way or another step on the world culture, and everything is in it, out, around. As the advertising pro-reading, are a sad one. And because it's a shame that there are still many - too many - not to see how wonderfully beautiful (and wonderfully thousand other things) read ... Let's hear
! In fact, see. Send me your photos from readers . They can be photos of yourself or any other person, may be the face or even no, freedom is important is that there is a book . And a brief justification of why it was chosen that particular book.

Then what are you waiting for? I invite you personal librarian!
If you want to be part of this work a bit 'bibliofolle, send your photos to personal.librarian @ yahoo.it