Cassandra Perez Perez itibaren Bangara, Odisha, Hindistan itibaren Bangara, Odisha, Hindistan

This is a great book for those who like books. The main character, Thursday Next, is a Literary Detective, so major works of fiction, and famous authors are discussed and interjected throughout the text. (With some characters even jumping into poems and novels.) It was a fun read, with an inventive mix of reality and science fiction. I enjoyed the humor and the clever character names (Paige Turner and Jack Schitt were my two favorites).

I think I read this book when I was 11. I should probably re-read it, but I loved it back then.

Read this short novel (155 pages) within a couple of hours. A lovely telling by Maria Coletta-McLean of her journey back to her father's homeland of Supino, Italy. It had been 64 years since her elderly father had visited his homeland and Coletta-McLean and her husband Bob decide to take him home one last time. When Maria and her husband Bob take a trip to Supino, Italy to check out the homeland before returning with her father, they discover that her father's home/farm is NOT at all what they had expected. The novel was quite amusing, charming and touching all at the same time. From back cover: "After 64 years Messabotte Coletta, a retired truck driver for a Toronto macaroni factory, is returning to his native Italia. In a village called Supino - said to take its name from the crossroads where Christ rested, supine, en route from Rome to Naples - is a fix-me-up villa bought sight unseen by his youngest daughter, Maria. While she and her husband Bob breathe in the chatter of local tradesmen, the fragrant offerings of well-wishing neighbours and the aroma of fine wines, her father awaits the day #10 Via Condotto Vecchio will sommon its prodigal son. As father and daughter retrace history they pray to the Saint of Special Favours for a final and miraculous gift."

cute - but not as endearing as the earlier Olivia books.