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What He Reads
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My life seen through the literature I have read since moving to Italy in the fall of 2008.
- Author: J.R. Striffler
- Listed in: Books Travel
- Tags: books italy fiction rome non-fiction
Recent Posts
FOOTNOTE: "Causing A Scene" by Charlie Todd
The Glorious Ones was based around one of the real acting troupes who performed a form of improvisational theater during the 1500s. They kept within the structure of conventional plot lines that centered around the themes of jealousy, adultery, old ...
GLOSSARY: Apoplexy
APOPLEXYap⋅o⋅plex⋅y [ap-uh-plek-see]–noun Pathology1. stroke (def. 6).2. a sudden, usually marked loss of bodily function due to rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel.3. a hemorrhage into an organ cavity or tissue.Origin: 1350–1400; ME a...
FOOTNOTE: "Little Children" by Tom Perrotta
Forty years after Richard Yates wrote Revolutionary Road, Tom Perotta also explores relationships in the suburbs in his brilliant novel Little Children. Both books take place in Connecticut, which seems to often be the setting for unhappiness in mod...
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates
Revolutionary Road is a devastating portrait of a marriage in the "hopeful" 1950s written by Richard Yates. The book feels amazingly contemporary despite it being over forty years old. And though the material things in the book might be of the deca...
THE CRYING OF LOT 49 by Thomas Pynchon
It had been a very long winter break and I was ready to get back to Rome. However, I had to pack. When I moved in September, I really didn’t prepare myself for all the seasons and my luggage was much lighter than it needed to be. But now returni...
GLOSSARY: Septuagenerian
SEPTUAGENERIANsep⋅tu⋅a⋅ge⋅nar⋅i⋅an [sep-choo-uh-juh-nair-ee-uhn]–adjective1. of the age of 70 years or between 70 and 80 years old.–noun2. a septuagenarian person.Origin:1705–15Source:"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scot...
