Jennifer
• Arsène Lupin, ladro gentiluomo: ★★★☆☆(18/05/18 ~ 16/11/18);
• Arsène Lupin contro Herlock Sholmès;
• Il faraglione cavo;
• «813»;
• Il tappo di cristallo;
• Le confidenze d'Arsène Lupin;
• La scheggia d'obice;
• Il triangolo d'oro;
• L'isola delle trenta bare;
• I denti della tigre;
• Gli otto rintocchi del pendolo;
• La contessa di Cagliostro;
• Il soprabito di Lupin;
• La signorina dagli occhi verdi;
• L'Agenzia Barnett & C.;
• La dimora misteriosa;
• Lo smeraldo a cabochon;
• La Barre-y-va;
• La donna dai due sorrisi;
• Victor, della Brigade mondaine;
• La Cagliostro si vendica;
• I miliardi di Arsène Lupin;
• L'ultimo amore di Arsène Lupin.
RATINGS:
• The Tempest ★★★★☆
• A Midsummer Night's Dream ★★★★★
• The Winter's Tale ★★★★★
• Much Ado About Nothing ★★★☆☆
• As You Like It ★★★☆☆
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona ★★☆☆☆
• The Merchant of Venice ★★★½☆
• Cymbeline ★★★★★
• King Lear ★★★★★
• Macbeth ★★★★★
• All's Well That Ends Well ★★★★★
• The Taming of the Shrew ★★★☆☆
• The Comedy of Errors ★★★★☆
• Measure for Measure★★☆☆☆
• Twelfth Night; or, What You Will ★★★½☆
• Timon of Athens★★★★
• Romeo and Juliet ★★★★★
• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark ★★★★★
• Othello ★★★★☆
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre ★★★★☆
DNFed @ 20%
I always try my best at finishing the books I'm not liking but this time I really feel like I couldn't care less about any of the characters + I don't even like them, so I'm giving up with no second thoughts, honestly.
Perhaps I'll try to pick it up again in the future but meh, this had been the FOURTH TIME trying to read this one so I guess I'm quite done.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
— John McCrae
A couple of years ago I bumped into this book on Amazon and its price was quite ridiculous (less than €1.50, I think?).. It took me less than three seconds to add it to the cart even tho I knew I would've waited the right moment to read it.
That time had come and I'm glad I've waited to get in the right mood for it! Of course, I would've never thought that in the meantime I would've witnessed another war happening... People will never learn from our past mistakes, apparently.
This is a collection of 114 poems written by the main protagonists of WWI: the soldiers, the nurses, their families, friends and lovers.
Studying history on the books is a totally different matter compared to reading about people's feelings and direct testimony on how it really felt to be on the front line, losing your friends and your own life.
I'm not gonna lie, reading these poems made me feel really sad. It's concerning how the price of a life can still be considered to be so low, and how we still let so many people die over trivial things, only because of some powerful men who want to show how strong they are. It really looks like some things will never change, after all.
