Francesca Duranti

Unusual first-person, philosophical book about an Italian professor now living and cooking (tasty-sounding recipes) in New York City who examines her life and particularly her dreams in terms of being retrained to be right-handed when she was a child in Italy and how that affected her. While I found it fairly compelling and thoughtful, there is very little action. The book was translated by the author.

Not really what I expected. It won a bunch of prestigious awards so I thought I would read it. Fascinating - it gripped me most of the way through but seemed to fade and become slower at the end. Definitely not for children. I liked the earlier parts of the book most.

This book is very poetic, well written, literary and artistic.

For me it was a little too much of the above. It is beautifully crafted, has good character development, but is just too slow to develop and to uncover all those different layers of the different characters.

it's the kind of read you need to take your time to savor and need to think while you're reading. It's not a fast food of books.

This book is very poetic, well written, literary and artistic.

For me it was a little too much of the above. It is beautifully crafted, has good character development, but is just too slow to develop and to uncover all those different layers of the different characters.

it's the kind of read you need to take your time to savor and need to think while you're reading. It's not a fast food of books.