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Molly is simply wonderful, Poppyshake. So regal.. I don't mind her age, she's perfect. Lily is 10 human-year old but she's the princess here. And, yes, she does obtain everything she wants with those eyes!

Oh.. how I love Yes!! They had a big role in the soundtrack of my childhood. Thanks Karsa.

Yeah, cool..isn't it? We do this kind of things all the time, Italy's second name is Spolier!

What a bookful day, Kidsmum. You're going to read some wonderful stories, believe me!

Last try to post a photo. If it works, you should find a photo of my Lily. If it doesn't work.. I'll give up.

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.. I love this movie, in spite of the silly translated title they gave it overe here, something like "if we break up I'll erase you from my mind" ..

I definitely choose those books that you simply can't stop reading and I'm happy you've enjoyed them too.

Memoirs of a Geisha and Rebecca are on my TBR list, but I can't find Birdsong and Swallows and Amazons.. I'm not sure they were translated in italian, so I'm searching them in english too. Thanks Chaliepud!!

My library will be closed the whole July for summer holiday so this morning I took as many books I could: Stieg Larsson trilogy, Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen, The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey, and a french contemporary book written by Laurence Cossè. I'll be a bit busy for a while..

I've just seen this topic and that's only because of Frankie and Athena. Anyway, her's my list: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gome with the wind - Margareth Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 38 Captain Corelli�s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight�s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante Alighieri 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt - 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I have read some Shakespeare's work and big parts of the Bible.

Frankie, you're soo sweet! I just love the way you talk about dogs... so lovely. Lily is back to her normal life, that is to say she runs here and there. I'm sorry I can't post any pics of her. I'm still trying to understand why I can't.

I ususally wait to see the puppy's personality before I give her/him a name. I named my lady dog Lily because she's really protective, just like Lily Potter. My other old lady is Tabitha after the soap Bewitched.. because of that funny nose thing.

OMG, soo lovely!!!

Last night I started and finished Susan Fletcher's Corrag. I really thank my insomnia because it's such a lovely intense book who deserves to be read in no time.

What?! You're at season 5? Castle is stopped at the middle of season 4 here in this stupid useless country and we don't even know when it will be on again. I'm stll waiting for the end of season 1 of Once Upon a Time, not a great series, I must admit, but I have to see everything with Robert Carlyle or I'd explode. Anyway, just seen the end of Lost. Again. But I always love it, I'm so Lost-addicted.

So let's hope you just had a wrong first impression, Frenkie. I truly hope you won't be disappointed, because it's so annoiyng when it happens.

Here is the list of the artists and writers of the 2013 edition I know you don't even ever heard of the half of them, but you can see how huge the festival is by this list. Francesco Abate, Eraldo Affinati, Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Jim Al-Khalili, Roberto Andreotti, Antonella Anedda, Josephine Angelini, Carlo Annese, Giuseppe Antonelli, Marco Archetti, Antonia Arslan, Corrado Assenza, Liliana Babbi Cappelletti, Eugenio Baroncelli, Luca Beatrice, Marco Belpoliti, Anna Beltrametti, Alfonso Berardinelli, Alessandro Bergonzoni, Stefania Bertola, Riccardo Bertoncelli, Laura Bettini, Enzo Bianchi, Giovanni Bietti, Stephanie Blake, Giuliano Boccali, Shani Boianjiu, Anouk Boisrobert, Ginevra Bompiani, Achille Bonito Oliva, Stefano Bordiglioni, Dario Bressanini, Terry Brooks, Andrea Buffa, Giulio Busi, Annarosa Buttarelli, Atilio Caballero Menéndez, Massimo Cacciari, Miriam Camerini, Peter Cameron, Chiara Carminati, Paola Caridi, Maite Carranza, Emmanuel Carrère, Luciana Castellina, Francesco M. Cataluccio, Carmine Catenacci, Marco Cattaneo, Cristiano Cavina, Davide Ciccarese, Luigi Ciotti, Massimo Cirri, Gianni Clerici, Chiara Codecà, Gabriele Coen, Paolo Cognetti, Luca Colombo, Federico Condello, Matteo Corradini, Francesco Costa, Lella Costa, Pino Costalunga, Guido Crainz, Matali Crasset, Azzurra D'Agostino, Paolo Dall’Oglio, Andrea De Benedetti, Luca De Biase, Maurizio De Giovanni, Diego De Silva, Marco Del Corona, Tijana Djerković, Sékou Ogobara Dolo, Paul Doswell, Corrado Dottori, Margaret Drabble, Mathias Énard, Francesco Erbani, Vittoria Facchini, Maurizio Ferraris, Edgarda Ferri, Giuseppe Festa, Luca Ferrieri, Laura Fidaleo, Enrico Fink, Peter Florence, Alessandro Fo, Giuseppe Fochi, Marcello Fois, Ivano Fossati, Enrico Franceschini, Tiziano Fratus, Carlo Freccero, Andrea Fumagalli, Chicca Gagliardo, Sofia Gallo, Bruno Gambarotta, Santiago Gamboa, Silvana Gandolfi, Marco Garzonio, Fabrizio Gatti, Stas’ Gawronski, Fabio Geda, Marta Gerardi, Paolo Giordano, Gene Gnocchi, Silvino Gonzato, Almudena Grandes, Silvana Greco, Delphine Grinberg, Franca Grisoni, Giorgio Grossi, David Grossman, Wendy Guerra, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Mohsin Hamid, Jamila Hassoune, Chris Haughton, Clinton Heylin, Antonio Imbasciati, Maarten Inghels, Luce Irigaray, Francesco Jodice, Mimmo Jodice, Meirion Jordan, Nadine Kaadan, Sam Kean, Moussa Konaté, László Krasznahorkai, Tuomas Kyrö, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anna Lavatelli, Alessandro Leogrande, Stefano Levi Della Torre, Davide Longo, Francisco López Sacha, Carlo Lucarelli, Dan Lungu, Sergio Luzzatto, Makkox, Elia Malagò, Marco Malvaldi, Marco Mancassola, Stefano Mancuso, Dacia Maraini, Andrea Marinelli, Giacomo Marramao, Michela Marzano, Christian Mascheroni, Beatrice Masini, Alexander Masters, Francesco Mastrandrea, Ángeles Mastretta, Paola Mastrocola, Luisa Mattia, Beatrice Mautino, Peter May, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Melania Mazzucco, Luca Mercalli, Barry Miles, Luciano Minerva, Mauro Minervino, Renato Minore, Robert Misrahi, Damiano Modena, J. R. Moehringer, Luca Molinari, Tomaso Montanari, Marissa Morelli, Antonio Moresco, Elisabetta Mori, Matteo Motolese, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Marie-Aude Murail, Michela Murgia, Piero Negri Scaglione, Andrés Neuman, Giovanni Nicolini, Nadia Nicoletti, Marino Niola, Anna Nogara, Paolo Nori, Alberto Notarbartolo, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Boris Pahor, Piersandro Pallavicini, Riccardo Panattoni, Raul Pantaleo, Federica Pedriali, Federico Pedrocchi, Cyril Pedrosa, Jordi Pérez Colomé, Marco Petrella, Per Petterson, Giovanna Pezzetta, Daniele Piccini, Paolo Piccirillo, Marilia Piccone, Massimo Picozzi, Kari Polanyi Levitt, Gérard Pommier, Karen Press, Antonio Prete, Giovanni Previdi, Guido Quarzo, Liliana Rampello, Jørgen Randers, Luca Rastello, Carlo Ratti, Massimo Recalcati, Louis Rigaud, Andrea Rodighiero, Stefano Rodotà, Riccardo Romani, Max Rommel, Giuseppe Rosolini, Valerio Rossi Albertini, Nella Roveri, Luca Ruini, Paolo Rumiz, Farian Sabahi, Alessandro Sanna, Stefano Scansani, Laura Scarabelli, Giorgio Scaramuzzino, Luca Scarlini, Francesca Scotti, Taiye Selasi, Will Self, Salvatore Settis, Beppe Severgnini, Vandana Shiva, Giorgio Signoretti, Massimo Siragusa, Ahdaf Soueif, Giovanni Sofri, Flavio Soriga, Paola Splendore, Elena Stancanelli, Guy Standing, Ulf Stark, Benjamin Stein, Felix Stephan, Karla Suarez, Federico Taddia, Massimiliano Tappari, Bianca Tarozzi, Antonella Tarpino, Massimo Temporelli, Marina Terragni, Lilian Thuram, Emanuele Torquati, Mario Tozzi, Sandro Triulzi, Hans Tuzzi, Clara Usón, Chiara Valerio, Giulia Valerio, Andrea Valente, Pia Valentinis, Roberto Vecchioni, Juan Villoro, Serena Vitale, Andrea Vitali, Francesco Vitelli, Binyavanga Wainaina, Günter Wallraff, Ronaldo Wrobel, Kim Young-ha, Piero Zardo, Zerocalcare, Mary Zournazi. The meetings are usually translatedin english.

I have plenty of hot burning sunshine.. I can send some if you give me some rain. I could do with a little wind.

I loved The Curious Incident.. one of the best book I read last year, it really describes the world of autism. I hope you'll enjoy it Athena! I finished an italian classic I had to read for my Book Group. Now I'm not too sure what to read next.

Not a nice day today. I need something to cheer me up

I can't post any photos because a pop-up says I'm not allowed. I have to find another way to show you my Lily.

I hope you'll feel better very soon Athena. Some friends of mine went to Robocup too as they were on holiday in Netherlands, they had a good time.

I really loved it!! Nemirovsky is such an interesting author.. well, was interesting. I read ok, let's call it The Ball (in italian is Il ballo) and Suite Francaise.. both nice, but not contemporary, i must admit. There's another french writer, he's contemporary but I don't know if his book are translated in english nor in finnish. It's called Emmanuel Carrere. His last book is a sort of biography called Limonov. I haven't read it yet, but a friend of mine have and he says the book is fantastic.

How sweet Mrsmac!! Hayley, Oscar is soooo cute! Emelee I think you should give it a try. I can't say a single thing on snakes, 'cos they're not my style, but I have a great news: my Lily is out of danger!!! She is back to her usual and the infection is definitely over. I didn't realise how strong she is before coming through a thing like this. Pyometra is really nasty and it's not so easy to survive, but Lily is as strong as a bull, my little baby. I will post you a picture asap.

Croatia is a wonderful place, I really love it!