A Fanatic Heart

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0380771411

Review updated yet again (and again) on November 1, 2018

A group read with some of my greatest friends: OhWell, Sarah, and Tadiana.

First a disclaimer: I lost count to the number of times I read the book. Seriously. I still find something new with each reread. I would also like to welcome...

Author	Patricia A. McKillip
ISBN	0441004385

Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours...

Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate,...

Author	Yukio Mishima
ISBN	0099289989

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the...

Author	Mary Oliver
ISBN	1594206767

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems  

“If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger,”

Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse...

Author	Selma Lagerlöf
ISBN	0486433870

The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerlöf assured her place in Swedish letters with this 1891 novel. The eponymous hero, a country pastor whose appetite for alcohol and indiscretions ends his career, falls in with a dozen vagrant Swedish cavaliers and enters into a power...

Author	Isaac Bashevis Singer
ISBN	0374530254

Isaac Bashevis Singer’s first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow’s masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally...

Author	Zerocalcare
ISBN	8865439769

È il primo Zerocalcare che leggo. Lo conoscevo da tempi non sospetti* e ogni tanto sbirciavo il blog, tipo nel 2010 o nel 2011, ma non avevo mai pensato di prendere in mano una pubblicazione.
Non sono una fumettara.
Non mi piacciono i fumetti.
Non ho nemmeno mai preso in mano Kobane calling.
Ma...

Author	Zerocalcare
ISBN	8832730766

Nasce il figlio di Cinghiale. Gli amici si riavvicinano. Niente è più come prima. Sei mesi dopo l'uscita di «Macerie prime», Zerocalcare torna con il capitolo conclusivo della sua storia più emblematica e contemporanea. Il senso di precarietà sociale del suo cast sembra assoluto, i rapporti...

Author	Stefania Auci
ISBN	0062931679

A grand, sweeping international bestseller that captures the many lives of Italy's most notorious family, the Florios, from their humble origins as impoverished shopkeepers to becoming the uncrowned kings of Sicily.


Vincenzo, who lost his father at eight, builds an empire...

Author	Ngaio Marsh
ISBN	0312966709

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued - the second Roderick Alleyn Mystery. The crime scene was the stage of the Unicorn Theatre, when prop gun fired a very real bullet; the victim was an actor clawing his way to stardom using bribery instead of talent; and the suspects included two unwilling girlfriends...

Author	Hiromi Kawakami
ISBN	9734653784

Cartea lui Hiromi Kawakami cuprinde marturisirile a zece femei si tot atitea povestiri din care, pornind de la frinturi de amintiri, cititorii pot recompune personalitatea fascinanta, greu de prins, magnetica a unui barbat. Fie ca este vorba despre legaturi adolescentine sau din amiaza vietii,...