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Eleonora
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Thank you Chrissy.. you're always so sweet!
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Finished the italian thrillers my cousin gave me last week. They were not the best thing i've read, definitely. We can't write thriller in Italy and that's a fact!! On monday one of my library will open..and I can't wait!
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Congrats Carelia!!
I feel so blue at the moment. I said goodbye to my friend this morning, he's going back home and we won't see each other again. Ok we can still talk on the phone or chat on pc, but it's not the same.
Goodbyes suck.
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Well this isn't what I really was asking but I've ordered it and hopefully see how actually hard it is read for myself.
In regards too the war, from what I have read his book doesn't really go in with the war I don't think he mentions his intentions of invading Poland but just living space in the East and it was not his book that got the Germans to follow him not many actually even read it but rather his magnificent ways of speaking to the masses of people just watch a speech and you can easily say for yourself if you was a German then you would have been on his side it was like hypnotizing the youth he did really intelligent man regardless of his views but you need to actually know too and this is from a Polish person that a lot of what we are told is actually just rumours and lies for example his so-called wanting to exterminate Jews is nonsense he never he wanted to expulsion them from Europe the Jewish Question was not even Hitler's invention and he had several plans of doing this such as the Haavara Agreement and the Madagascar Plan and his so-called hatred of Slavs is complete nonsense too as Slavs were regarded as Aryans and many Slavs fought on Hitler's side against the Bolsheviks a lot of books are just victor stories. Same as he never wanted war with Britain. I don't want to come across as saying I'm defending Hitler or his policies but it is not as black and white as people like to try and make out like from first hand accounts he was a very relaxed man who just devoted his whole life to the state and his long-time girlfriend/wife Eva and his dog Blondi not this mad man Jew-killer that the media like to portray him as.
We can discuss after you've read the book and once you read to yourself what he thought about jews and how Germany should solve the problem.
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I have looked around on the internet and some of his quotes and ideas are actually good for example believing that jobs should go to people that are best suited at them and not just anyone and that everyone should be healthy and fit and he says boxing is what men should learn to be able to defend themselves and I do agree in his view about people with genetic illnesses be better to adopt a child than make a child suffer from it.
Well, he said everything and its contrary. As I wrote before, the book is not very coherent. Which makes the events of WW2 much worse: milions of people followed that broken mind, the majority of men because they were so desperate they needed someone to follow.
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I read Mein Kampf when I was at school: I read it in german end my class made a huge work on it from an historical point of view. It's not very coherent, it's easy to understand there was a highly disturbed mind behind it, but it's terrific too. The things that mad man told about politicians and his resolutions to the economical problems are so current, so vivid that you can't be afraid. There are a lot of people right now, in our time, that have ideas similiar to the ones he had. And the economical crisis we're living spreads them so much. I think we should all know the past to better face the future.
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Thanks everybody for your support.. and yes, Pontalba, august is half gone, thankfully (not only for the libraries closed but also because I can't stand summer).
Kidsmum, we have the same problem here: no money and a lot of cultural places or events had to be closed, cancelled or run only by volunteers. It's really sad because culture is the only real root of a country, if we stop reading and stop visiting museums or going to the theatres.. what are we?
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Well, I live in a very small village, we are only 500 people so our services aren't the best. I guess it's easier in the cities..
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Are the Italian libraries closed during summer?
It's unheard of, if that's the case, and you have my sympathies!! 
I hope your cousin has something for you. Otherwise, you have to bang on your neighbors' doors and ask them for books 
Hey, it's been a while since you've mentioned Dry. Am I correct if I assume you still haven't gotten your copy?
Yes, libraries around here are closed during most of july and august; and yes, you're right: I still haven't got a copy of Dry...
poor me!! Thankfully my cousin had a couple of book I'm starting right now: italian thriller..better than nothing. -
I'm getting really tired of all this holidays thing with the library closed.. I have read the whole huge pile of books I picked up a month ago, and now I don't know what to do. No book till monday? NO WAY! I'm seeing my cousin this evening, hope she can borrow me something. Anything! Or I'll have to re re re read The Picture of Dorian Gray: nice, but I know it by heart.
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Emelee, you've just listed some of my fave movies.. of all time!!!
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Karsa.. I LOVE Faith no More!!!!! I used to listen to The Real Thing on the bus while I was going to school. My walkman (yeah, old enough to have used that thing) broke and riuned my lovely FnM cassette. Bought the whole discography on cds, then!
But today I'm really into italian progressive. Hope you'll like it..
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Nature is so wonderful I have tears in my eyes.
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Yes.. two in particular:
- No Logo, Naomi Klein: I read it when I was at school and it definitely changed my point of view and my behaviour. I still don't use lebels.
- Nothing, and so be it, Oriana Fallaci: It changed my conscience in so many ways! I read it when I was only 12 and I decided I wanted to live helping other people and being their voice everytime they couldn't speak for themselves. I'm still doing this: I live for the others and not for myself only.
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I went to the library this morning and I took a book which seems really intruguing. It's called The Daughter of the East, translated from spanish, written by the spanish writer Clara Usòn. It's the story of a really happy serbian girl named Ana, truly loved by the father she admires with all her heart and soul. She seems to be one of those fortunate girl, clever and beautiful, to which life is easy an safe. But after a small holiday in Russia, she cames back and kills herself. Maybe because when she was in Russia she found out who her beloved father really is: Ratko Mladic, the executioner of Srebrenica, responsable of the killing of thousands of men and women. I'm not spoilering, this is what's written on the back of the book. I managed to read 30 and so pages while I was waiting for my brother to drive me home, and I must admit it's an intense story and it's really hard to put it down. But I don't know if it's translated in English.
I'm reading a book written by icelandic Jon Kalman Stefansson too: good choice.. it's so hot in Italy I could do with a little stormy freezing weather.
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Being unemployed.
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Lovely pics, everybody!!
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I can't help you with the flight, I'm not an expert of ticket prices and stuff.. I've even never flown
but it would be great to meet you, Frankie. Obviously it would be great to meet any other BCF member!! .. Did you hear me, Athena??!!The festival takes place every year in four of the first ten days of september, it's in Mantua, a wonderful historical city not too far from Milan (your friend is right, Frankie) or Venice ( only 2 hours train). There's a lot of art and the food is so wonderful that it would be great to visit it even without the book fest.
In the period of the festival, though Mantua has a sort of different beat.. and it's great.
Frankie, if you could come and we could meet, I will be one of the happiest girl in the world!!! But if you won't come.. I'll refer everything you want to anybody!!
Athena, Tuscany and Rome are so great.. well, Italy is great, but it's a shame it's full of italians!
Sorry girls I couldn't invite to my home, though: I have cats.
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Thank you.. once again.
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Oh wow.. Mark Knopfler.. I would give anything to play guitar like him. I'm so in love with this man.. and with your taste in music, Karsa!!
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Jojo is soooo lovely, Chalie.. I'm lost for words!
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I'm really happy for you, Lilywhite.. the situation was strarting to be tragicomic.
Athena, enjoy you holiday and relax.
Muggle, your garden is simply marvellous.
Pacefield..I envy you too.
It's boliing hot in here.. today is 43 degrees C, that is to say 109.4 F. I'm so tired because of the sleepless nights and the high temperature. I'm a winter creature and I can't stand this hot stupid season.
What is more I'm spending the last few days with my friend G. before his leaving: we won't see each other for a loooong time.
Summer and goodbyes really sucks.
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I must admit it was really easy because half of the books I read were part of my school program.. but I really loved that kind of homework.
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Eleonora, by the looks of it you've read a great many of the titles on the list!
Have you counted how many?They're 56 if you consider Harry Potter as an only book, but if you consider it a series they will be 62. Not bad..and I have some of the others in my TBR list.
What are you listening to? - 2013
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Went to see The Dubliners last night and met the band after the show. They dedicated me a song (because I helped them with the translations).. and I can't stop listening to it now.
http://youtu.be/ixWHon55y0g