by Carey Wallace, Aasne Vigesaa
I loved THE BLIND CONTESSA'S NEW MACHINE when I first read it. I even re-read it and was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it the second time around. http://tinyurl.com/l48e4bu It's a lovely, lovely story of love, loss, and listening. Read it and weep. (But in a good way.)
A good friend on LT reminded me of this wonderful little book that I loved reading a few years ago...a first novel, a small moment in history that shows the true meaning of love is, and always was, rising to meet the rough patches and working to make them smooth again. http://tinyurl.com/l48e4bu ...
A privileged childhood, a wonderful friend, a doting father, her own cottage by the lake...what more could a girl ask for......Carolina's life was like a fairy tale come true. All was perfect until she knew something was wrong with her eyesight...no one believed her, but she knew she was going blind...
Beautiful detailed descriptions of everything from the colors of a lake in springtime to the lace on a Contessa's dress fill this lovely small book. It is based on the true story of the blind woman who inspired the invention of the typewriter. Interestingly enough, some of the most elaborate "descri...
This brief, but charming tale is based on the creation of the first typewriter, built by Pellegrino Turri, in 1808, for his blind friend, the Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzono. The book begins with Carolina, the resourceful Contessa, as a young, perhaps willful, very independent young child who...
Not bad albeit a little bit predictable. Since it has been more than a year since I read it, I recall wishing that the lead male protagonist, whose name escapes me, was more fleshed out and developed. Perhaps it is something for a follow-up work.
NO SPOILERS!!! Through page 40: This is a love story – not just one love story, but actually several. A GR friend once remarked that I didn't like romance or that I rarely read love stories, and that is true. However I do enjoy love stories, but they must be magical as all real love is! The prose of...
The Book Report: On the eve of her wedding to the most eligible, handsomest bachelor in her small world, Contessa Carolina Fantoni announces to him that she is going blind. He laughs dismissively, kisses her indulgently, thus setting the tone for their entire relationship. After full blindness sets ...
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