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I'm Not Scared
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
15 posts | 47 read | 19 to read
One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force Michele to question everything and everyone around him, and will bring his innocent world toppling down. An unputdownable thriller, I'm Not Scared has become a contemporary classic in Italian literature, read and celebrated the world over.
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TrishB
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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Mehso-so

So-so, just wasn‘t feeling it. Obviously I can‘t really remember what I would have done aged 9 in these circumstances, but I‘m pretty sure it wasn‘t what this kid did 🤷â€â™€ï¸.

BarbaraBB The only thing I remember from this book is that the fact that it was so hot seemed to be repeated on every page. 1mo
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Caroline2
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Pickpick

I loved this. Set during a heatwave in 1970s rural Italy, a young lad stumbles across a boy trapped in a hole. I don‘t normally like books from kids points of view but this was done so well (like Lord of the Flies or Mockingbird). This will stay with me a long time.

La_Cori This is one of my favourite books.. I'm always happy to see someone enjoying this as much as I did! 🙂 7mo
squirrelbrain I loved this one too. Thanks to Between the Covers for putting it on our radar, hey?! 7mo
Itchyfeetreader This looks interesting 7mo
Caroline2 @La_Cori loved it â¤ï¸ 7mo
Caroline2 @squirrelbrain Defo! I‘d never heard of it before. 7mo
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AshleyHoss820
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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Pickpick

Our protagonist is a 9-year-old boy & he has found a body in a hole in an abandoned building…The prose reads like poetry. The plot is as bleak as the landscape. Animal imagery woven throughout to illustrate that sometimes we can‘t fight our deeper nature. It would be tempting, as an author, to include the grown-up world and it‘s motives/actions, but I think that would‘ve ruined it. This is first person and we only know what Michele knows.

AshleyHoss820 #52BookClub #52Books Book title that starts with “I†• January‘s Double #BookSpin • 226/1,001 #1001Books (edited) 1y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1y
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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Finding books on my shelves that have authors with names starting with N... because I‘m amazing at procrastinating 🤪

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La_Cori
Io non ho paura | Niccolò Ammaniti
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#7Days7Books
Books that have left a deep impression and changed me
DAY 4: Io non ho paura (I'm not scared)

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suzie.reads
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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Mehso-so

More I'm not such than I'm not scared. The book had so much promise but it was just abit boring for me. Loved Niccolo Ammaniti's style of writing though, so it gets a so soðŸ‘ðŸ»
It makes me laugh when a book gets so many great reviews on Goodreads and I'm just like no it's not haha
#ReadingEurope2020 #Italy 🇮🇹 (13th country)

BarbaraBB I found it a bit boring as well! 4y
suzie.reads @BarbaraBB I had to read the last chapter again aswell because I didn't get what happened 🤣 4y
BookishMe It used to be on my TBR until I found another book for Italy ;p 4y
suzie.reads @BookishMe you're lucky you found another book 🤣 4y
BookishMe @suzie.reads haha! 4y
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KellyHunsakerReads
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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The Italian countryside is as lovely as I guessed it would‘ve. And the children are smart and good-hearted. Unfortunately all the men I met were horrible humans. This book is very good, but I am still surprised it is on the list.

#Reading 1001#1001books #BackpackEurope

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KellyHunsakerReads
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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Italy and this lovely cover.

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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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Favourite School Read is a much harder question than say Least Favourite School Read which would have easily been Lockie Leonard... but #RiotGrams asks for favourite, and this one is still on my bookshelf.

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hollymckie
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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1. In my bed, of course (Scotland) // 2. There's been a few good ones but really loved I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale // 3. The Help, Kathryn Stockett // 4. All of the books in the Mystery series by Enid Blyton // 5. The Harry Potters // 6. The super secret book that Ally Carter is working on which I think is set for release in 2018! ------- have you done this tag? Let me know! #letstalkaboutbooksbaby

Lindy ðŸ‘Even though I read it years ago, I've never forgotten 7y
hollymckie @Lindy I was actually introduced to it in my creative writing class at university last year where we studied different techniques used in it, and I couldn't help reading way ahead because it was so amazing 7y
Lindy @hollymckie Yes, indeed. 7y
Sharpeipup Super secret Ally Carter book? WHAT? 7y
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Evelien
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti
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I really like this italian writer. His books surprise me every time. #rockinmay #scenesfromanitalianrestaurant

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KhaleesiLuna
I'm Not Scared | Niccolò Ammaniti

Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.