![]() ![]() ![]() This will be interesting actually…what makes a great title? What do you think? Let’s organise this by book title, shall we? I read some fantastically titled novels! I’m going to organise by my favourite title to least favourite title. I also read one memoir, which was the audiobook. I mostly read romance and fantasy with a side of some mystery books. One of those books is technically part of a blog post idea that I have…so we shall see.Īnyway, I read 15 books when I was in Italy (27 days, including the two days to and from Melbourne on the plane) and two of them were novellas as part of series, one was an audiobook and all of them were read as ebooks. I read four books prior to leaving to Italy in September, which I will talk about at a later date. So this is sort of a wrap up, but only for the books I read whilst in Italy. ![]()
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily ( Italian: La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia) is a 1945 Italian children's book written and illustrated by Dino Buzzati. ![]() |