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Review Date: 9/8/2011
Made me want to travel to Italy again.
Review Date: 9/8/2011
inspiring
Review Date: 10/4/2006
This was an incredible story!
Review Date: 5/31/2013
This is the first Binchy book I ever read and is still my all time favorite by this author. I like that her books always have a bit of mistycism, but not overdone and I always feel I am right in the setting where the story takes place. Makes me want to travel to Ireland.
Review Date: 12/17/2009
I love the historical information, high quality color photos, maps and cultural insights, travel facts and recommendations for sightseeing. Nicely organized book covering all of Britain, including Wales and Scotland. Can't believe how much information is packed into just less than 300 pages!
Review Date: 11/7/2006
Helpful Score: 2
Thrilling and sexy!
Review Date: 1/15/2007
Historical tone, vivid crusade violence and intrigue.
Review Date: 12/9/2006
It was fun catching up on the family saga.
Review Date: 10/1/2006
Intrique, mystery and international settings in this Higgin's thriller.
Review Date: 9/22/2010
Mr Haig never fails to intrique with his life-like adventures. Man in The Middle is so close to home in terms of current international conflicts you feel like you've had a real glimpse behind the scenes.
Review Date: 4/30/2011
A little different than the usual Lee Child, but I liked the change.
Review Date: 10/3/2011
This book was an interesting perspective on the period of Mary's rule (daughter of Henry VIII & Katherine of Aragon) but the queen is hardly visible until almost the middle of the story. It is more the story of Rafael who comes from Spain with the Queen's Spanish husband's entourage. So I feel the title is misleading. But I enjoyed the read. Not quite as compelling as other historical novels of the period.
Review Date: 12/10/2009
We just go back from Rome and found this book a handy reference. All sites and recommended restaurans, hotels, etc. are plotted on reference maps included in book. Very helpful.
Review Date: 12/5/2011
Helpful Score: 1
Almost as good as Cane River, this story weaves true events in U.S. history with some of the knowledge the author has uncoverd about her own family history. Written in the voices of recently freed slaves, it is touching and heartbreaking at the same time. Lalita Tademy, who did a masterful job in Cane River has a knack for engaging the reader in a thoughtful way. It's not a pretty story but the lives of the characters are so vivid and real one can't help but become absorbed in the telling of it.
Review Date: 9/23/2010
Of all the Berry books I've read, this is my favorite. I could hardly put it down. I have to admit some of his books just do not hook me in... This one did big time. It's adventurous and compelling with not a one dull page to be found!
Review Date: 11/7/2008
Helpful Score: 1
It at first reads like a boring account of an upper-crust Brit's life in Tuscany. But I hung in there and found it to be a delightful account of a woman's life starting in childhood as she embraces Italian culture. It's viewed through an intellectual and upper class lifestyle, but with sensitive insight into the Italian people and their way of life. Also an interesting insight into the politics and life through the World War and its affects on the landscape, peoples lives and the changes and adaptations to post-war rebuilding of the country. I enjoyed revisiting places I have visited just recently in a trip to Europe and as and Italian-American I enjoyed her descriptive accounts of Italian life.
Review Date: 1/11/2007
I enjoyed the retro voyage in this vintage PDJames with fun old fashioned sleuthing.
Review Date: 1/30/2011
I wish I had read this book prior to going to Rome, but it was still great still the after the trip. Not a travel guide, but with so many descriptive passages of the sites and ramblings of the author through the Vatican and Rome it was a delightful reminder of the wonderful place it is. Having been there only a year before reading the book, it was fun to have real memories attached places the author goes. The inside information on the workings, politics and quirks of "Holy" City were quite interesting.
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