Later, adjusting to life in the White House was a formidable challenge for the self-described “control freak”—not to mention the difficulty of sparing their daughters the ugly side of politics and preserving their privacy as much as possible. A wonderful read and highly recommended. The banal. Again, this is a book you read for the writing. It's instantly engaging and welcoming to the reader, creating a rich sense of place with a narrative that feels often like poetry. It happens all the time in Italy, especially to tourists, especially in Rome, and especially to people who are willing, as the Italians say, to fare il fesso—that is, let someone else make an a** of them. I highly recommend this! An engrossing memoir as well as a lively treatise on what extraordinary grace under extraordinary pressure looks like. Being a casual visitor is a fine and respectable pastime, but it doesn’t qualify you to write a book. And I think a special award should go to anyone who pens lines such as, "Trying to dress [the twins:] after a bath is like trying to put pajamas on a mackeral" or "This, I suppose, is what it means to look after two babies: any attempt to make you, This book gave me a lot of mixed feelings. GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR It’s difficult to say something new about a city that has captured imaginations for millennia, but Doerr manages to do so in this story of an Idaho. Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2015, Wonderfully written memoir by the author of All the Light We Cannot See. Dude muses about history. Traveling overseas. The trouble is, that’s often all it is: a Fabergé egg, a festoon, the rich-and-creamy icing on a cardboard cake. Throughout the book, Doyle remains open and candid, whether she’s admitting to rigging a high school homecoming court election or denouncing the doting perfectionism of “cream cheese parenting,” which is about “giving your children the best of everything.” The author’s fears and concerns are often mirrored by real-world issues: gender roles and bias, white privilege, racism, and religion-fueled homophobia and hypocrisy. “Four years ago,” she writes, “married to the father of my three children, I fell in love with a woman.” That woman, Abby Wambach, would become her wife. I loved the insight and pondering....how we view such "old world or "old history" in this modern digital society. He lives in the same neighborhood Julius Caesar lived and sits in the garden where Galileo sat. I was looking forward to reading a book set in Italy, and of course reading about other people's sleep and parenting woes is one of my hobbies. This is a memoir without a particularly profound story or driving sense of purpose--it works mainly because Doerr is an excellent writer. Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2017. But as the book continued, it grew tiresome. We visited some of the places mentioned in the book to experience a real Rome neighborhood, and it was one of my favorite evenings there. Services for Authors. Categories: Dude muses about musing. He describes the city with love and nostalgia, capturing Rome at its funniest and most breathtaking. I am from the province of Rome, and I thought to know Rome very well, but He gave me a new insight and perspective in this town. RELEASE DATE: Nov. 13, 2018. I really enjoyed this memoir because I also loved the experience of a new place.

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