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venerdì 11 gennaio 2013

Review: Millie's fling - Jill Mansell

Title: Millies' fling
Author: Kill Mansell
Pages: 501
My rating:  

Plot:
Bestselling novelist Orla Hart owes her life to her friend Millie Brady, whose rotten boyfriend has just left her. So Orla invites Millie to Cornwall, where Millie looks forward to a summer without any dating whatsoever. But Orla envisions Millie as the heroine of her next novel and decides to find Millie the man of her dreams. Except the two women have drastically different ideas about what kind of guy that should be.

My thought:
The best way to descrbie this book is: WOW!
Did I make clear my feeling toward this book?! :D
Well, I really appreciated it, especially because I didn't expect much from it: the book is going to be released in Italy on 17th this month and the editor sent me a copy to rewiew.. To tell the truth, this is the first book by Jill Mansell to be translated in italian!
Now I want to read all her books, and I'll suggest her to all my friends!
There are lots of characters worth to know them..Jill created a great universe! I think I'd like having Millie as best friend.. She's so nice, so funny, so reliable and sweet.. I really adored her! Hester, her best friend and flatmate, is really lucky, also becuase she found Nat, the perfect boyfriend: he's a chef, he forgives her mistakes, he's hot as hell and well, hot as hell :DD
Everytime Jill assumed Orla's POV, I was so light-hearted I wanted to hug everyone and everything in sight..
Well, the multiple happy ending was clear from page 1, but not all the books need a mysterious plot to be pleasant!

mercoledì 9 gennaio 2013

Review: Don Camillo - Guareschi

Title: The little world of Don Camillo
Author: Giovanni Guareschi
Pages: 180
My rating: 

Plot:
Disaster threatens when a mild-mannered Italian priest wages a personal war against the village communists.

My thought:
Another great italian book that should be well known all over the world!
I bought this book years ago, because a friend of mine was constantly talking about Don Camillo here, Don Camillo there.. I didn't want to start it though, 'cause I thought it was a boring, appalling and not-for-me reading. Well, this book is my refined wine: it has been in my library for years and it aged wonderfully!
I read it really quickly and when I finished.. I wish it had been longer!! It made me laugh so hard that my mum heard me from her room.. :D
There are two main characters: Don Camillo, a priest and Peppone, the 'communist' mayor of the village. They spend their time annoying each other, doing things just to make the other angry, hating each other and so on.. They are nemesis, they wish they could live without the other and always speak ill.. But at the end (at the very end!!) they are friends, they protect the other when in need and really fight for good reason! (more or less.. =P)
Beyond the funny side there is so much to discover: friendship, Italian situation post-war, way of life in a little country.. :)
Really really advised!