{"id":92,"date":"2008-04-10T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/review-of-italian-lessons-by-peter-pezzelli\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T01:49:00","slug":"review-of-italian-lessons-by-peter-pezzelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Review of Italian Lessons, by Peter Pezzelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image120\" height=\"240\" alt=\"italian_lessons.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/italian_lessons.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Italian Lessons, <\/em>by Peter Pezzelli<\/p>\n<p>Kensington Books, New York, 2007.\u00a0 346 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kensingtonbooks.com\/\">http:\/\/www.kensingtonbooks.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the second book by Peter Pezzelli that I&#8217;ve read.\u00a0 I found both books warm and wonderful.\u00a0 With both, I felt transported back to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Italian Lessons, <\/em>Carter Quinn, newly graduated from college, has fallen in love with a girl who lives in a village in Italy.\u00a0 He can&#8217;t stop thinking about her.\u00a0 So he decides to spend his summer learning Italian and then go to find her.<\/p>\n<p>Carter learns that a music professor often gives private Italian lessons.\u00a0 This professor, Giancarlo Rosa, has not been back to his childhood home in Italy for decades.<\/p>\n<p><em>Italian Lessons <\/em>covers the summer&#8217;s lessons together, what Carter learns about Italy and about life, and then what he finds in Italy &#8212; and how his discoveries touch Professor Rosa permanently, and allow him to finally make peace with his past.<\/p>\n<p>This is a feel-good novel that is also thought-provoking, covering issues of life like forgiveness and destiny and opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>I definitely need to look for more of Peter Pezzelli&#8217;s novels.\u00a0 So far, they always leave me with a smile.<\/p>\n<p>This review is posted on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/italian_lessons.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Fiction\/italian_lessons.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Italian Lessons, by Peter Pezzelli Kensington Books, New York, 2007.\u00a0 346 pages. http:\/\/www.kensingtonbooks.com\/ This is the second book by Peter Pezzelli that I&#8217;ve read.\u00a0 I found both books warm and wonderful.\u00a0 With both, I felt transported back to Italy. In Italian Lessons, Carter Quinn, newly graduated from college, has fallen in love with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary","category-fiction-review","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}