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What I loved most about this was how its wash of scenes, characters, sounds, and sights captured the chaos that is Rome. It was eons ago when I was there, but this is how I saw it. Almost too much to handle all at once—the beauty, the filth, the fountains, the traffic, the reverence for food, the graffiti, the splendor of the cathedrals, the ruins, the light, the Vespas, the Italians offering advice to strangers, the fruit, the cheese, the Italians cheerfully disobeying posted rules...
Beautiful writing. I read this to get a sense of Rome and it definitely accomplished that. But, now I want to read more of Doerr's books for the quality of his description. His perception of place added to mine.
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I needed a novel when I started this book, but I gradually fell under its spell. Doerr is a master of the beautiful image, the perfect sentence.
I've just read this book for a second time: September 2022...so exactly ten years after I first read it. I planned on including passages that I loved when I read it in 2011, but I was still teaching then, so I must not have gotten around to it.
My reaction this time is different. I began rereading on the plane to Paris and kept on as we flew to Florence ...more
I've just read this book for a second time: September 2022...so exactly ten years after I first read it. I planned on including passages that I loved when I read it in 2011, but I was still teaching then, so I must not have gotten around to it.
My reaction this time is different. I began rereading on the plane to Paris and kept on as we flew to Florence ...more
Four Seasons in Rome was a delightful read. I have been there twice fifty years ago. Doerr and his wife went there just after the birth of twins. Taking care of one newborn is difficult enough, but two is unimaginable. Much of the story is about the ordeal of caring for them, but the Italians love babies and children and loved seeing these little ones as their parents shopped for groceries and walked every day exploring the city. Doerr was awarded a grant for a year that included an apartment, a
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