“TWILIGHT” BY STEPHENIE MEYER
“Twilight” is one of these novels that take you totally by surprise. I am positive that most of you heard about the story, especially with the movie and all the publicity it got, but hearing about it and actually reading the book are two very different things. I like vampire stories, don’t get me [...]
THE SICILIAN CARNIVALE
There is the time of the year again… Carnivale is in full blow this weekend and its pick (as well as the last day before Lent begins) is Tuesday, February 24, 2009. It is what Americans are acquainted with as Mardi Gras. However, living in Italy, and Sicily in particular, gives me a unique opportunity [...]
“THE VENETIAN BETRAYAL” BY STEVE BERRY
Cotton Malone—a character we met in Berry’s previous novel, “The Alexandria Link”—is a rare-book dealer and a former Justice Department agent living currently in Denmark. Narrowly escaping a blazing fire in a Danish museum, Malone learns from his adventurous friend, Cassiopeia Vitt, that this was a part of series of fires across Europe caused [...]