Due letture decisamente poles apart, but the beauty of reading is just that, no?
jumping in a moment in such different worlds without ever moving from the couch!
The EMPEROR'S LOVER Arrigo Petacco
BOOK
Who was really Oldoini Virginia, Countess of Castiglione? The sincere patriot who seduced Napoleon III to promote the unification of Italy, or the wily cocotte who put through their provision of Cavour for purposes far less noble? Aristocratic, rich, bored, beautiful, the countess she was just eighteen years old when Vittorio Emanuele II decided to use her to win the Italian cause the French emperor. Virginia went into the alcove of the most important crowned heads of Europe, so that his death secret services Savoy burned all the documents concerning it, but letting slip letters, diaries and memoirs, by which Henry was able to reconstruct Petacco this page of Italian history.
"We definitely wonder if your love is not a pose for the world, an insult towards me, or a game for you and you have bet to win?? ... In this case, my dear, in spite of the points they gave you - you lose! " great. An incredible life. If it was a novel I probably would have accused the author of exaggerated!! But the story is incredible-but-true of a woman of the last century, a story about which much remains to be clarified, but that is intertwined with the events related to the birth of our Italy. It is her , the Countess of Castiglione: beautiful, cunning, vain and without scruples, a woman who was able to conquer all the most influential men of the time. For those who love history, biographies and anything that smacks dialtri time .... From read!
ARE THE NUMBER FOUR
of Pittacus Lore
BOOK
We arrived at nine. Apparently, we are the same to you: you dress like. talk like you, live like you. But we are not like you. We can do things that you can not even dream of. We have powers that you can not even imagine. We're stronger, faster and more skillful than any living being of your planet. You know the superhero comics and those who marvel at the cinema? That sort of thing, but with one big difference: we are real. We took refuge on Earth, and we parted to prepare: we had to train ourselves, to discover all our powers and learn to use them. Then we would have together, all nine, and we were ready. To combat them. But they have discovered that we are here and now we are hunting. They want to eliminate us, one after another. So we are forced to flee, to move all the time, to be afraid of our own shadow. Now I do call John Smith, and I hide in Paradise, Ohio. I thought it was safe, but I made a big mistake: I fell in love with my classmate. And I could not pick a worse time. Because they have taken the number one in Malaysia. The Number Two in England. The Number Three in Kenya. It killed them. I am the Number Four, are the next ...
are the number four (I Am Number Four) is a science fiction novel written by Jobie Hughes and James Frey, who use the pseudonym "Pittacus Lore", a character of novel itself. It 's the first in a series which is expected to be made in all six books. The output of the second book, The Power of Six, is scheduled for August 2011.
This book is a diesel ....
History of aliens living among us. For those who love the stars, do a 3 ½ star, honestly up to 3 / 4 of the book, I was not really captured by the story. Mediocre, sciapo, without substance seemed the script of a film. But then again at the end, when it finally starts a little bit of action: then you are no longer able to detach myself. Definitely wait for the sequel!
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