“FRIDAY DI-VERSO” “So, my dear, what is it that prevents you from creating the life you want?” We stroll around New York with Zainab, looking for an answer to this question. The novel itself is a long walk through the end of adolescence, the sprint gives us the discovery of an immense and unknown city (at least, for the protagonist) like New York. Zainab comes to us from Ghana, confident, full of expectations and full of...
“But the bodies of the sick transform the other bodies.” We chose this book to break the ice on the first ameeting of the book club created together with the friends of the Mondadori Bookstore in Barona (Milan). A collaboration born to relaunch shared reading even in the suburbs of large cities, and which we are sure will last over time. With the usual sincerity, we admit that we started reading the book unconvinced, without...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: accettazione di sé, condivisione Tecnica delle illustrazioni: digitale Età consigliata: 3-8 anni Pisciolino è un bambino che dopo aver fatto la pipì, per qualche motivo, gli resta sempre un goccino che bagna le mutande. Non è un vero problema, con i pantaloni non si vede e poi si asciuga subito, però Pisciolino si sente solo. Così decide di...
“When you know each other since childhood and growing old together, friendship is something indefinable, precious.” A book halfway between thriller and adventure, with a sprinkling of sociology on the surface and a filling of history. Too demanding? No, far from it, very enthusiastic. The protagonist of the second appointment of the “Stazione BooktoMi 2022” review, the reading of the book quickly turned from a duty to a pleasure. With the greatest merit of having...
The books chosen by Andrea Salonia This review is available only in the original language _________________________________________________________________________ La scelta di cominciare a leggere un romanzo piuttosto che un altro è legata a motivazioni molto diverse. Ciascuno di noi, infatti, ha un rapporto differente con i libri nel loro complesso, ma certo da qualcosa deve pur arrivare il là perché si cada proprio su quello e non su quell’altro. Su di me l’oggetto in sé esercita sempre una...
“We were fine, even if we had little. And maybe that’s not bad...” We chose this book to open the second season of the “Stazione BooktoMi” festival because it is the one that more than any other new release in the last period makes the desire to return to the normal life we knew until March 2020 at its best: being together, hugging and sing at a concert until you have no more voice. Focused...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: empatia, amore, amicizia Tecnica delle illustrazioni: acquarello, inchiostro e matite Età consigliata: 3-10 anni Non conta quante sono le pagine, ma la storia che il libro racconta. Non conta ricordarsi tutte le parole, ma cantare con tutto il cuore. Non conta avere sempre più amici, ma voler bene a quelli che ci sono. Non conta possedere...
“FRIDAY DI-VERSO” “The nights are long and restless for the lonely, for the defenseless.“ What if the hundred years of solitude hadn’t passed in remote Macondo but a little further north, among the fjords of a dazzling and fabulous Denmark? Wars, lovers, apparitions, landscapes so poignant as to be unreal and yet there they are, in front of our eyes, bright. Hearts devoured by passions that are cold as ice and burn like ice; characters...
“Nobody knows anything about time, but everyone enjoys giving it a voice.” Book dedicated and directed to the world of adolescents. The writer of this review has left their late teens for a few years, so not being in the target audience of the text, they may not have fully appreciated what a young person’s book of life will be (until they grow up). Read in an afternoon without excessive effort, the text is a...
Written by Alessia Colombo This review is available only in the original language. Tipologia: albo illustrato Tematiche principali: architettura, fantasia Tecnica delle illustrazioni: digitale Età consigliata: 6-10 anni Un astronomo eremita vive su un alto sperone di roccia, qui trascorre il tempo osservando le stelle, la sua casa è semplice, un unico locale con cucina, letto, una libreria e una scala che porta ad una torretta di osservazione; nel stalla fa capolino una capretta e nel...
