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Maria Grazia Beltrami
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Editor, translator, karateka, but above all reader: this is where everything else stems from. Editor of the science fiction anthology Love Is Stronger Than Time https://shorturl.at/gOhG4 NO DM!!!
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My thoughts on Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë
#Classics #Fiction #Romance #Historicalfiction #Victorian #BritishLiterature #conditionofwomen #bookreview #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of Agnes Grey
3/5: Agnes Grey is clearly a debut novel. One can sense the author's anxiety in trying to prevent the reader from identifying her with the protagonist, even though it is known that Anne Brontë had wor...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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My thoughtsSwallowing the Muskellunge, Lawrence Patrick O'Brien
#horror #fantasy #historicalnovel #racism #civilwar #SettlerColonialism #bookreview #SwallowingtheMuskellunge #NetGalley #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of Swallowing the Muskellunge
5/5: A complex novel that blends elements of horror and the paranormal with themes of European settlement in North America, the American Civil War, the liberation of black slaves, and the exterminatio...
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January 4, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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Meine Gedanken zu Dein Heimweg, Hannah Essing
#Frauenmord #thriller #deutschebelletristik #DeinHeimweg #NetGalleyt #booksreview #booksky #bookskyde
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Maria Beltrami's review of Dein Heimweg
3/5: Emmy ist eine junge Frau mit ein paar Problemen (die nicht so klar sind), weswegen sie im Auto leben muss. Sie kann echt gut mit Worten umgehen, deshalb wird sie als Marketingmitarbeiterin bei ei...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:05 AM
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Tanti auguri di Buon Anno
Best wishes for a happy new year
Alles Gute zum Jahresende und ein frohes neues Jahr!
#news #happynewyear
December 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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My thoughts on Near Death, by Glenn Cooper
#Thriller #Crime #sciencefiction #psychology #neuroscience #neardeathexperiences #bookreview #NearDeath #NetGalley #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of Near Death
3/5: As always, Glenn Copper's writing is absolutely brilliant and highly entertaining, so much so that the pages turn themselves. The story, especially in these times when there is much debate about ...
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December 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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My thoughts on The Sufi’s Nightingale, by Sarbpreet Singh
#HistoricalFiction #LiteraryFiction #MulticulturalInterest #retelling #bookreview #TheSufisNightingale #NetGalley #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of The Sufi’s Nightingale
4/5: Using the classic style of retelling, The Sufi's Nightingale narrates the story of a real Muslim mystic of Indian origin, Shah Hussain, and his heir, Madho Lal Hussain. For those who, like me, kn...
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December 28, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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My thoughts on Parallels, by James Kinsley
#sciencefiction #psicology #aliens #bookreview #parallels #NetGalley #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of Parallels
3/5: Jeff, Jezz, or...? The narrative seems to be based on a serious case of dissociative identity disorder, with the protagonist switching seamlessly from one to the other. Except that Jeff is a peac...
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December 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Solidarität mit HateAid – Angriff der Trump-Regierung stoppen
HateAid kämpft im Netz für die Einhaltung von Recht und Gesetz und gegen strafbare Inhalte wie Morddrohungen oder antisemitische Volksverhetzungen. Dafür sollen sie jetzt bestraft werden. Die Sanktion...
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December 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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My thoughts on Why is Marigold?, by Sarah Colombo
#speculativefiction #psychology #anthropology #androids #WhyisMarigold #NetGalley #booksreview #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of Why is Marigold?
4/5: The question posed by Why is Marigold? is an existential one. It is essentially the question we all ask ourselves: why do I exist? Except that Marigold is a bioandroid, a creature “born” at the a...
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December 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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My thoughts Flashlight, by Susan Choi
#historicalFiction #Mystery #Japan #korea #FamilyDrama #bookerprize #booksreview #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of Flashlight
5/5: Flashlight is a tapestry of lives and events. There is the mother, who in her youth has a child by a married man - who raises him under a strange contract with the woman. There is the father, a K...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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My thoughts on Angel Down, by Daniel Kraus
#Horror #HistoricalFiction #Fantasy #WorldWarI #Thriller #AngelDown #NetGalley #booksreview #booksreview #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of Angel Down
5/5: A novel that, in some ways, due to the horrors it describes and how it describes them, bears a certain resemblance to All Quiet on the Western Front. What is the creature that the group of army r...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Meine Gedanken zu Kälter, by AndreasPflüger
#historischerRoman #Thriller #KalterKrieg #BerlinerMauer #amrum #AndreasPflüger #kampfkunst #booksreview #booksky #bookskyde
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Maria Beltrami's review of Kälter
5/5: Der Roman heißt „Kälter“, aber der Schreibstil, die Figuren und die Handlung sind glühend heiß. Die Vergangenheit, vor allem eine bestimmte Art von Vergangenheit, hat die unangenehme Angewohnheit...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Meine Gedanken zu Single Mom Supper Club, Jacinta Nandi
#Familie #Feminismus #Expat #LebeninDeutschland #booksreview #booksky #bookskyde
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Maria Beltrami's review of Single Mom Supper Club
2/5: Obwohl der Titel auf Englisch ist, ist das Buch auf Deutsch geschrieben, und das zeigt irgendwie, worum es in der Geschichte geht. Die meisten Hauptfiguren sind Expats, die aus den unterschiedlic...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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My thoughts on Nobodies, by
Warren Adler, Shannon McKenna
#underworld #family #relationships #thriller #Nobodies #NetGalley #booksreview #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of Nobodies
3/5: Henry is a programming genius whose skills have been used against him by his ex-wife and her lover. Amber is a con artist and a sexy dancer at the end of her career, on the run from a man who for...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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My thoughts on The Convergence Chronicles: Cyber Inference
Eric Yocam
#sciencefiction #artificialintelligence #cybersecurity #booksreview #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of The Convergence Chronicles
2/5: This novel has excellent intentions, but unfortunately it is written in such a mannered and tedious way that it makes you want to slit your wrists. So, if the aim was to provide the reader with t...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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My thoughts on By the Rivers of Babylon, Nelson DeMille
#historicalfiction #thriller #ArabIsraeliConflict #palestine #booksreview #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of By the Rivers of Babylon
4/5: The first work by celebrated author Nelson DeMille, it is in some ways still immature. The setting is that of the now perennial Arab-Israeli conflict, and it heavily blames the Palestinians for t...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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My thoughts on The Melancholy of Resistance, by
László Krasznahorkai, George Szirtes (Translator)
#Fiction #hungarianliterature #Novels #literaryfiction #Contemporary #nobelprizeliterature #booksreview #booksky
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4/5: As always, Krasznahorkai's writing is baroque and bulimic, full of seemingly insignificant details, minor characters without whom the protagonists would go round in circles, and unexplained and i...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Meine Gedanken zu „Zitronen” von Valerie Fritsch
#Kindheitsmissbrauch #ÖsterreichischerBuchpreis #booksreview #booksky #bookskyde
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Maria Beltrami's review of Zitronen
4/5: Eingehüllt in eine Sprache voller zarter und kraftvoller Bilder, die man mit dem oft imaginären Duft von Zitronen vergleichen kann, der für die Figuren wie Balsam ist, erzählt Valerie Fritsch ein...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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My thoughts on All That Dies in April, by Mariana Travacio
#fiction #family #tradition #SouthAmericanliterature #booksreview #AllThatDiesinApril #NetGalley #booksky
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Maria Beltrami's review of All That Dies in April
4/5: The story begins with a man and a woman, husband and wife, trapped in a barren land that has long been dominated by drought. The woman would like to leave in search of water, of a new land she ha...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Persimmons are one of my favourite fruits. They are amazing when placed on a chocolate tart.
#darkchocolate #persimmons #homecooking #recipeoftheday #homebaking
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Crostata cioccolato fondente e cachi
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November 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Amiche e amici che amano la scrittura, volete entrare a far parte della nostra nuova antologia in programma per l'8 marzo 2026? A questo link troverete le istruzioni.
#racconti #antologia #femminismo #retelling #8marzo #booksky #bookskyitalia
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November 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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And let's make two tortelloni, shall we? We'll fill them with ricotta cheese, so they'll be light, but to avoid overdoing the lightness, we'll season them with 250 grams of butter. Yay!
#tortelloni #recipeoftheday #homecooking #cooksky
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Tortelloni burro e oro
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November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Tinned broad beans and frozen prawns, but a touch of mint is enough to work some magic.
#homemadepasta #broadbeans #prawns #homecooking #recipeoftheday #cooksky
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Tagliatelle in crema di fave con gamberi
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November 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Tripe and potatoes are two well-known comfort foods. In this dish, made spicy by chilli pepper and delicious by crusco pepper, they go hand in hand.
#comfortfood #homecooking #recipeoftheday #cooksky
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Trippa con patate alla calabrese
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November 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Ragù ragù of my dreams, who is the best in the kingdom? Tonight, duck ragù won.
#ragù #homecooking #recipeoftheday #cooksky
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Ragù di anatra
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November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM