Earthly Remains
Registered by sakirmo of Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on 10/30/2019
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Journal Entry 1 by sakirmo from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Brunetti decides to finally take a well-earned break and visit Sant'Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the Venetian laguna...
Journal Entry 2 by sakirmo at Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Saturday, November 2, 2019
Journal Entry 3 by Chania at Kokkola, Keski-Pohjanmaa / Mellersta Österbotten Finland on Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Thanks so much, this is next for me in the series, so I probably read it pretty soon!
Journal Entry 4 by Chania at Kokkola, Keski-Pohjanmaa / Mellersta Österbotten Finland on Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Very good, very interesting! Now sending forward in wishlist-tag - game!
In my mailbox today. Nice cute stamps (virgin). Thank you Chania.
A new worrying topic. Always a pleasure to venture in Venice and the Laguna with our dear commissario even if it's not the same anymore with too much people.
"She lived a happy life but her vision of life was tragic". First time I read that in Guido's voice about Paola, I think.
"She lived a happy life but her vision of life was tragic". First time I read that in Guido's voice about Paola, I think.
Hopping to the South of France. Enjoy !
Journal Entry 8 by vaga-bonde at Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon France on Saturday, January 4, 2020
Thanks Icila for this first RABCK of the year! It will always be a pleasure to go back to Venice and Brunetti.
Journal Entry 9 by vaga-bonde at Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon France on Saturday, January 18, 2020
Brunetti is overworked and goes rest on the island of Sant'Erasmo, but his work unexpectedly catches up with him.
Same theme of water pollution as in Through a glass, darkly (which takes place on the island of Murano). I missed Paola in this one...
Same theme of water pollution as in Through a glass, darkly (which takes place on the island of Murano). I missed Paola in this one...
Journal Entry 10 by vaga-bonde at Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon France on Monday, January 20, 2020
Released 4 yrs ago (1/20/2020 UTC) at Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon France
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Brunetti crosses the Atlantic...
For a bookcrosser who had this novel on her wishlist. Happy reading!
For a bookcrosser who had this novel on her wishlist. Happy reading!
Sent all the way from Montpellier in France, and started its journey in Finland... I am so grateful to receive this latest book in Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti series!! Many thanks to Vaga-bonde from Maine in the USA! This will warm my winter!
I always enjoy Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti novels. Her latest, Earthly Remains, has the familiar elements and yet gives more space to simply following Brunetti's daily peregrinations than in unveiling a mystery. I adored the beginning, where I found myself laughing out loud: while interrogating a despicable wealthy personage who clearly drugged a young girl at a party (and she has died in hospital), it becomes obvious that once again justice will be thwarted... and Brunetti, sensing that his outraged young colleague is leaping up in order to attack this vermin, pretends to have a heart attack, throwing himself upon said colleague in order to save him from destroying his own career. Then he must follow through, allowing himself to be taken to hospital and tested and so forth. The result is that he takes advantage of the medical directive to get a few weeks' rest away from the stress of his job, so off he goes, alone without his family, to the island of St'Erasmus, where he encounters an old rowing friend of his father's and starts taking daily excursions on to the laguna surrounding Venice, to other islands to check on the bees his new depressed friend is caring for. When Cassati turns up dead, supposedly an accident during a violent storm causing him to drown, Brunetti senses something deeper at play, so he pursues it. As with many of the novels in this series, we become convinced of the foul play that explains the death which, however, cannot ever actually come to trial due to the nature of the "evidence", so a certain amount of resigned frustration ends the tale. A lot of description of rowing, of flora and fauna, of the land/seascapes in the setting make for a somewhat slow first half of the book, but still, I enjoyed it a lot.
Journal Entry 13 by MmeClinton at When Pigs Fly Company Store And Pizzeria in Kittery, Maine USA on Monday, March 9, 2020
Released 4 yrs ago (3/12/2020 UTC) at When Pigs Fly Company Store And Pizzeria in Kittery, Maine USA
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on the bench near the entrances