I don't really know what possessed me to buy this book (quite a few years ago), as it's not the sort of thing I normally read. But it was one of the most extraordinary things I ever read. It got me completely hooked on historical (if you can call the 2nd world war historial) books. It has one of t...
Listened to on tape (unabridged.)Review from BooklistThis novel, set on the idyllic Greek island of Cephallonia, follows the lives of its inhabitants from the peaceful days before World War II through the Italian occupation of the island into the present. It is funny, heartbreaking, and horrifying i...
They meet, they fall in love, and then they don't see each other for thirty years until they are magically reunited and realize they were intended to spend their whole lives together but somehow misread the instructions on the box. Don't you just hate it when that happens?
The first couple pages of this book were gorgeous and I dug in for a good read. But I felt the end absolutely deteriorated, spoiling the whole damned venture. The prose was good, but the book still gets an overall 2 for deflating.
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