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Black Bread, Giovanni Verga - only the second author I’ve heard of so far. Another disappointing read. Man marries red headed woman with no dowry. Poverty. “She was again with child, she being worse than a cat for filling the house with little ones.” Domestic violence. Baby girls are disappointing. And on and on. Lovely /s
— Dec 28, 2024 11:56AM
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Miss Jools
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Winter in the Abruzzi, Natalia Ginzburg - another one I’ve heard of and this was probably one of the best in here. A bit more progressive!! But still miserable, filled with melancholy and death.
— Dec 29, 2024 02:41AM
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To the Tenth Muse, Matilde Serao - a bit more interesting stylistically: lots of lists and saying the same thing with different words. A description of a street of food sellers in Naples.
— Dec 29, 2024 02:39AM
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The Fifth Story, Day the Seventh, Giovanni Boccaccio - Where did they dredge up this archaic translation of the Decameron?!
— Dec 29, 2024 02:36AM
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The Golden Cross, Grazia Deledda - God, Mass, marriage, subservient girls with eyes downcast...a man with a golden cross who was...Jesus...? 😅
— Dec 28, 2024 11:35AM
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White Dogs in the Snow, Andrea de Carlo - An author stalks and obsesses over another woman while with his wife. They visit another author over Christmas, there's some dogs and some family dramaaaaa. Yawn.
— Dec 28, 2024 11:29AM
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Family Interior, Anna Maria Ortese - About a, gasp, single woman - wonderful, the ‘old’ spinster trope. Oh and she’s unattractive and like a man because she’s independent. More mass. An old, gasp, single aunt. Who is UGLY and likes GOSSIP. More misogyny. There’s so much meanness and unkindness in these stories. Ughhhh.
— Dec 20, 2024 04:39AM
Miss Jools
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Oh forgot also the wonderful evil red headed fallen woman!! Got to get that dose of misogyny in!!
— Dec 20, 2024 04:21AM
Miss Jools
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Canituccia, Matilde Serao - Child abuse. Wonderfully festive /s. She gets beaten. Religion. Prayer. They kill her pig, chop its head off. She starves.
No wonder I keep putting off reading these stories.
— Dec 20, 2024 04:18AM
No wonder I keep putting off reading these stories.
Miss Jools
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Christmas Eve, Camillo Boito - Not what I was expecting at all...the cover of this book seems to promise some festive, cosy tales - not necrophilia...? I mean, in another collection - a HORROR collection perhaps - this would have been quite intriguing...
— Dec 10, 2024 02:35AM
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A Dream of Christmas, Luigi Pirandello - Er, a dream about Jesus.
Not a great start... :P
— Dec 10, 2024 02:19AM
Not a great start... :P
