Reading about (sunny) Ancient Rome whilst it's raining ☔ outside

Am thinking about this book whilst I have my lunch. Thankfully lunch is not meat based today

So. Just finished this book. I'm not sure what to make of it. Having seen the film I knew what to expect. And it was certainly enjoyable to read. and (as with any form of art) it made me think about life.
just not sure about if it deserves to be called a modern great?

At the same time as I read about the kkk killing Medgar Ever on my timeline I get the news Biden and de Nero have had bombs posted to them.

I ask all my American friends to go out and vote this midterm.
Apathy isn't an option.

I've been why I have it a soso rather than thumbs up.
Here is my conclusion:
The plus side has been the research and the first hand accounts from the people that were there.
But a more satisfactory book would have fully answered or left fewer unswered questions.
eg:
Impact of the war on Auschwitz
Impact of Auschwitz on the war
Immediate treatment of survivors by liberating forces
Compare & contrast this treatment by Red Army and Western allies

Saturday read in the west of Scotland

An important subject. he has a journalists eye for a good phrase.
However I felt it could have done with more conceptual analysis

Curious thing about my relationship with this book is I have never made one recipe from it. Yet the tips and advice have been fab

So. in my adventures with baking.....are the best baking recipes from Italia?
Either my next baking is to be the piegata con pomodorini

Funnily enough the children always look at the cakes to cook before their mains

Heavy going.

It's a Sunday. Work tomorrow - which for the first time in a long long time I am not looking forward too.
This is the kind of book which puts your own problems into perspective

Yes. all Scottish men look like this and NOT like begbie, renton, sick boy or spud

fun fact. Spell check originally changed begbie to veggie. I wonder what he would've made of that?🤔

In fact it's called Volgograd https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd

I don't think they call it Stalingrad in Russia anymore

I come to Italy and this the room they give me (get the link to the book? Not subtle I know)

......today it is a milk run. But it wasn't in the days of Catch 22

PS......catch 22 is the best book I have EVER read. Read it 12 times so far

Great fillum

Not as good as child 44

Time to get serious and read something contemporary.

will it really point to how the uk can "take back control"?
Just remember....we haven't left the IO that is the EU yet

Basically war without the glory. In other words there are very few good guys and only the brutality of war

I mean this in the best possible way. The TV show is horrific

Running then reading. That's my Saturday covered

We love the same pizza George Clooney enjoys

Now has a new home

Healthy and on the Bosh! YouTube channel too

People of Litsy. Please tell me you will read history. (I doubt Trump does either Kanye)

Seriously. Pasta isn't bad for you. I don't get the zero carb thing

This is just the tip of my to be read pile....i just didn't want people to think it was all cook books with me

Linguine Al tonno is simply the most amazing thing.
most important lesson I learned from this book is less is more. I used to throw lots of ingredients into my pasta sauce....but no longer

The butternut squash is gorgeous. Trying the paella next.... ..

OK. I burnt the pancakes. But that's more of a reflection on me than nigella

Set in Edinburgh. is Edinburgh really posher than Glasgow?

The methods section is amazing. Even I can understand it

I will be using Litsy for all my new reads and NEW TBR books. Call me the happy1848 heretic if you want but all my previously read books are on A N Other social media book sites. If you can guess the importance of 1848 I don't have a prize, but will certainly follow you

Great

Finished it! I haven't read anything for a while and now this book has got me back into reading