Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund
Book Reviews by Sondra Eklund |
Buy from Amazon.com
Rate this Book Sonderbooks 93 Previous Book Next Book Nonfiction Travel Previous Book Next Book Fiction Young Adult Fiction Children's Nonfiction Children's Fiction Picture Books 2004 Stand-outs 2003 Stand-outs 2002 Stand-outs 2001 Stand-outs Five-Star Books Four-Star Books Old Favorites Back Issues List of Reviews by Title List of Reviews by Author Why Read? Children and Books Links For Book Lovers About Me Contact Me Subscribe Make a Donation Post on Bulletin Board View Bulletin Board I don't review books I don't like!
*****= An all-time favorite |
***Living in Romeby Bruno Racinephotographs by Alain Fleischer
Reviewed March 29, 2005.
Flammarion, Paris, 1999. 236 pages. Available at Sembach Library (914.56 RAC). Here’s a beautiful and extra-large picture book about living in Rome. This isn’t so much a book for tourists as it is a book about life in Rome—the stones, the places to stroll, the gardens, the markets, the interiors of palaces, and the art collections of people who live in Rome. Although there are multitudinous photographs, there is plenty of text, too. Altogether, it gives you a more in-depth feel for the city of Rome than your typical tourist’s travel book. The book is probably too big to bring for a quick trip to Rome, but it’s well worth reading before you go, or after you go to remind you of your trip. Of course, I haven’t been to Rome at all, but now I feel I have a taste for the life of the city, through the pages of this beautiful book. Copyright © 2005 Sondra Eklund. All
rights reserved. |