La Bella Figura: A Field Guide To The Italian Mind
Jan/07
La Bella Figura by Beppe Severgnini is a New York Times Bestseller about how Italians think and act. It was a good read at times, but I must admit even though I spent a fair amount of time in Italy some of the references and things I should find humorous were lost on me. I think it would be better to read if I was Italian and understood the culture in a more intimate way. Overall I did enjoy it and do recommend it if you are interested in Italian culture or already familiar with it.
Checkpoint Charlie and the Wall: A Divided People Rebel
Jun/06
Checkpoint Charlie and the Wall: A Divided People Rebel, was written by Werner Sikorski and Rainer Laabs and is not widely avaliable in the United States, but can be purchased here. I purchased the book from the gift shop at the Checkpoint Charlie museum in Berlin. I found the museum fascinating and wanted to know more about cold war history and the role “Checkpoint Charlie” and “the Wall” played in it. The book really did deliver for me and I found it much more educational than anything I learned in history about the Cold War. It went into more detail than the museum did about the years before, during and after the wall stood. It is filled with timelines, photos and the many surprising tales of those who escaped and attempted to escape from East Berlin into West Berlin.
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Europe From A Backpack
Apr/05
Europe From A Backpack is a series of 58 short stories written by young people about their adventures in Europe while they backpacked, studied, worked, lived and traveled in Europe. The book was given to me by my father before I left to study abroad in Rome. I read the book while living in Rome anticipating the month following my studies when Bryan and I would take off and travel around Europe for a month (this time living out of a backpack instead of a suitcase). The stories I read were both informative, honest and entertaining accounts from various travelers in countries in Europe in recent years (mostly the 1990′s and early 2000′s). The both excited and inspired me for what would lie ahead of us and proved that the memories you make while traveling are the kind that stick with you though the years.
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