Re: Books

(Anonymous) 2018-08-27 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
For other Italian-speaking nonnies - I just finished reading La vita a rovescio, a historical novel about Caterina Vizzani, a real person who lived dressed as a man for eight years. I enjoyed it but didn't love it. The historical facts made it inevitably a bit of a downer, but the author paid off in the ending a lot of things that she'd set up earlier about the historical and literary figures that Caterina/Giovanni looked to and the women who were influential in his/her life, and I was legitimately pretty moved. I think my biggest disappointment was that I wasn't convinced by the final romance; I'm not totally sure I was supposed to be, but even if I wasn't, it nonetheless struck a sour note, I'd have wished that the last one was a good one.