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Amanda Knox falsely and horribly imprisoned for murder

Revisado: 04-04-25

My ancestors and relatives are from Perugia. I love Perugia. I, too, studied briefly at the Università per stranieri. I hate the horrific injustice that was done to Amanda!! I pray that the Italian prosecutor can someday recognize his wrongdoing and offer Amanda a sincere apology.
I don’t know what language besides Italian has a stronger word for shame : VERGONA. If you say that word loudly, not ever knowing what it means, you can sense how wicked that word sounds.
I’m sorry that Amanda doesn’t have strong Christian faith. I don’t know how I’d have gotten through her ordeal without my faith.
A portion of her story is too intimate for my liking. I understand that her freedom causes her to freely communicate every aspect of her life and experience.
I’m so happy that Amanda’s life has been redeemed. That she’s came from a loving family that was 100% behind her. She’s now in a happy marriage with wonderful husband and children and now has such great purpose through the Innocence project.
Why, if Amanda and Rafaelle were tried 2x for the same crime hasn’t Rudy Guede been charged again, been found guilty and been imprisoned for life without parole.
Meredith is the most tragic victim in this true horror story. My heart goes out to her family. I hope her family can realize that Rudy is the true subhuman monster here. I pray Meredith’s family can reconcile with Amanda.

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Excellent book!

Revisado: 01-23-24

I don’t I’ve read a book about WW1 coming largely from point of view of the workers, the Bolsheviks, and lower classes. Their viewpoint is enlightening!!

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Fascinating WW2 account of women in resistance

Revisado: 10-30-23

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I knew nothing about this prior to listening to this audio account. I’m 1/4 Italian and absolutely love all things Italian. As an international relations major and world history enthusiast I found this book very intriguing. I was very interested to hear of the little acknowledged womens’ participation in the war effort exposing war criminals.

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Shaw’s love letter to Tuscany

Revisado: 05-10-23

I thoroughly enjoyed James Shaw’s book A Italian Journey! I’m 1/4 Italian with an Italian Nonno who was an opera singer and artist. Unfortunately he died before my parents even met. Nonno and my American grandmother bought property in Umbria that was in our family for 57 years. We’d go there every other summer for many years until I was a teenager and in college when it was less frequent.
Like James I’m truly in love with Italy. Since COVID I haven’t been to Italy in 4 years. If I don’t get there in ‘24 I’ll burst!
I wasn’t raised Catholic but came to my Christian faith as an adult. Because of all the negatives of the Catholic Church I didn’t attribute the positives of the faith to the character of Italians but James might be right.
I learned Italian through the years from the people who worked at our Italian home. My senior year in the US my high school offered Italian. I went on to study it in college and on & off through the years. I listen to Pimsleur cds but will now look for the 100 Italian movies James has suggested.
Is James fluent in Italian now? My only suggestion would be to work on his accent. My dad spoke fluent Italian with a perfect accent so I had that modeled for me.
This is a long way of recommending his book especially to lovers of all things Italians or people exploring Italy.
Grazie Mille!
Linda

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Fascinating story based on true events

Revisado: 02-22-23

This is an exciting book about horrible treatment of women in the 1600’s. I thoroughly recommend this terrific tale of poison and intrigue.

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What an amazing story of the reality of slavery

Revisado: 09-15-22

I can’t believe I made made it to my 60’s never having read Uncle Tom’s c

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The love and sacrifice of the Italian people

Revisado: 07-08-22

I loved this book. I’m of Italian-American descent. This summer I’ve listened to all kinds of historical fiction and fiction books about Italy. This has been my favorite book! I’d read A Song for Bellafortuna first and was charmed by that story.
Saving the music was so fascinating about Italy in WW2. Learning about how the Italians took in and saved the Jews in this novel and better yet really did it in WW2 was uplifting. Learning about Pope Pius’s role was eye opening. The life of the village and especially the very human sacrificing characters really fleshed out the book.
I strongly & lovingly recommend this book!

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Silverswift is an excellent fairytale

Revisado: 08-20-20

This is such a beautiful, sweet fairytale or should I say mermaidtale!
Very original, entertaining & vivid. It paints many gorgeous paintings. What a fabulous story of relationships and families.

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Eastern Ky packhorse librarians were a real thing 1930’s-1940’s

Revisado: 11-03-19

The Giver of Stars is a great historical novel about the true existence of the ladies packhorse librarians who tirelessly rode into the eastern Ky hills and hollers. They loaned about 100,000 books to the poor in remote rural towns. This brought literacy to those who couldn’t attend school.
Very interesting for me a non Ky native. This should appeal to all my Ky friends and my friends from all over who want to know about this fascinating time.

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Fabulous story about an awful time

Revisado: 08-19-18

I had no idea such a wicked woman as Georgia Tann existed. What a fascinating story about orphans. Fortunately some from horrible circumstances made great lives.

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