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books July (Part 2)

tips are back, this time with not recommend. In the last fifteen days of the month I was lucky: the second part of the post is all for you, and the first book is


Brief History (almost) everything , by Bill Bryson.
Promoted: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Brief History of (almost) everything (that "all" means "science") was an amazing discovery.
What is it about the book? Well, heck. Talks about everything. Talk of cosmology, astronomy, geology, physics, atomic physics of modern taxonomy, biology, and everything that has to do with the natural sciences.
And it does follow a common theme is the evolution of the world: from the Big Bang, the formation of the solar system, Earth and Moon, the formation of the earth's crust, the formation of mountains and oceans, the appearance of life and its development, focuses on the microscopic talking about atoms, molecules and the laws that we do not see anything that obeys; focuses on the macroscopic, the laws of the visible world, from Newton to Einstein, there are volcanoes earthquakes, submersibles immersed at a depth of 10 km, experiments that paved the way for genetic fossils of dinosaurs, antibiotics, the last specimens of dodo, heated debates on the name for a new species ...
Obviously not all here, and what makes this book a gem is the feeling, having finished the 600 pages of wanting more.
Bryson has the ability to expose the fruit of dozens and dozens of readings (there are 17 pages of bibliography written thick thick) and interviews in a clear, coherent and above all interesting. His sense of humor permeates the pages, without, however trivial in the end the wise or witty, and often leads, while reading, smiles for the jokes or anecdotes of a few lines on each of the scientists who received fame and honors (but not always) for their contributions to science.
Brief History of (almost) everything is a test for everyone. If you are interested in science, is the book for you.


Next is a novel rather than a reading is a symphony of flavors.

The Mistress of Spices , d the Chitra B. Divakaruni. Promoted
: ★ ★ ★ ★

A book that I would have lost had it not been Ileen ♥ ♥ you advice. And, well, if I had not read a good book I would have lost.
The Mistress of Spices is a book made up mainly of colors, flavors, magic contained in the newspaper. The author knows how to mix carefully, as in a recipe, all the spices Tilo, the heroine, loves (and which he uses to help others), and the result is a tasty dish (the writing is evocative, and you savor slowly) and flavorful (the plot, though with some difettuccio, it is very nice). In fact, the
writing is being changed as the story evolves, losing the flavor of spices to acquire a new one to Tilo: that of compassion and the extreme need of help, at first, and later that of feeling for excellence. Love. Tilo
doing so knowingly unleashed a series of consequences that are revealed, however, larger than what would have imagined. But they are nothing more than tests that help you to understand what it really wants from life, she had never stopped to think when the old had started the magic of spices, she never had pulled back making requests but rather it was thrown headlong into each new task.
Only two are small flaws that I found.
The first is the abundance of words in Hindi (there are at least two or three per page), whose explanation, rather than at the bottom of the page is a handy little glossary at the end of the book.
The second is the final, less powerful than the rest of the novel: it is certainly in line with the evolution of Tilo, do not say no, but ... perhaps goes a bit 'too romantic.
Oh, and looks a bit 'to Chocolat, but this similarity did not take one iota of her beauty.

Now it is a fairy tale.

The Bears Famous Invasion of Sicily , Dino Buzzati.
Promoted : ★ ★ ★

Often, those who can read between the lines of a fairy tale, there is much more than words tell. The same goes for The Bears Famous Invasion of Sicily , which has everything you need to make it a fairy tale.
This is a gentle story, set many years ago in a Sicily that no longer exists, and the protagonists are the bears that come down from the mountains to the cities in search of food and the son of their king, lost since he was only a puppy.
is a story for little ones, but perhaps even more to the biggest: a good read, every page, although apparentem glad body contains a thin thread of melancholy, which culminates in the second half of the story, which bears no longer adapt to the bears in all respects to human life: also, and above all the vices.
In a moment of confusion when reading these pages, I thought of Orwell and his Animal Farm, but while in the process of identifying novel Orwellian with humans is tragically unstoppable Buzzati still leaves some hope at the end of its history . Because often all is not lost.
I wonder what effect it would have made me now this little gem of a fairy tale if I had known and loved as a child.


A collection of poems is what is missing.


Myricae , Giovanni Pascoli.
Promoted: ★ ★ ★

Giovanni Pascoli is a poet who learns from childhood.
His poetry has a unique sound and unmistakable, and can provoke strong impression with its combinations of colors, smells and images and for the wise use of onomatopoeia.
But it is not a poet "for children": the pastures are much better appreciation of what's in the simple word.
Beyond his poems is a man who has suffered and is satisfied by simple joys of a flower or the memory of his childhood or his native country know him: and that, despite the limitations inherent in the written word, manages to communicate the emotions with a poem, and particularly acute care, who can make me shudder in its simple immediacy .
The collection is accompanied by a large (though unfortunately boring) introductory essay, and poems, in addition to the notes, has an introduction which explains the metrics and anticipates the themes.

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still missing one book: I'm talking about Anna Karenina , Lev N. Tolstoy. But the novel I will speak in the next post, to give due importance!