MN Little Italy 10

[francagoestohollywood]

Welcome, ciao, hello

BS have not booked at yours as not enough time tomorrow to go all the way there. but I've kept it for better times.

[they are all reading the bath thread]

I was just about to say the same Pippi.

There, I've done it! I've posted on the bath thread.

nope, not going to post on the bathing thread... in fact dh always accuses me of 'becoming british' whenever i take a bath, whcih happens about once a year, unless pregnant in which case i am obsessed with lying in the bath.

i do shower (almost) every day though!

Oh I don't bathe often either, I mostly take showers. Also because we have a huge bathtub and I feel guilty about the amount of water needed. It's just when I do I rinse the suds off. I mean, would you leave shampoo in your hair? Boh!

yes: boh is the only sensible comment I can come up to.

I guess if you went to the hairdresser and they did not rinse your heir you'd feel well pi**ed off, wouldn;t oyu?

HAIR!!! FGS!!

Oh, i thought you were taking the piss about this Elimination thing, WTF? Very mumsnetter of the year.

Agree about work, issues of drive and motivation, having a life beside kids, will hopefully take up new glamourous (not) when dd is older. I am pretty strict about having some kids free time though, otherwise it is all so repetitive.

BLW sounds a bit like what we did from 7months plus in that the baby had what we had, no salt of course, and ds got into it and we didn't look back. It seems to me to be more parent led though, the kids eat waht the adults eat, no? Boh. I think i would be rubbished big time on any weaning thread becasue we weaned at 4months both, and they were mainly bottle fed and and and. All these dogmas get on my nerves.

Oh, the idea of reading Herman Hesse again makes me yawn. What was that guy about and why was everybody i knew 20 years ago into HH?

I've aways found Herman Hesse mindnumbingly dull. I never did see the fascination. I couldn't understand why everybody kept telling me to read Siddharta. I had read it but it did nothing for me. Is it an Italian rite of passage?

The prize for the most achingly boring book, however, goes to Va Dove Ti Porta Il Cuore by that Tamaro woman. Everybody kept raving about it and I tried 3 times to read it and discover the magic, but the furthest I got was chapter 4. The next book she wrote was possibly worse.

I started reading it, then DP came home (got his time wrong again!) and so we did some online banking, well, paying!

so I've just finished the thread and posted as I couldn't resist, but contained myself and simply agreed with Brange .... but hair must be sticky if you just rinse in bubbly soapy shampooy water, no?

I THINK IT IS A rite of passage. i hate de carlo!

I read the tamaro's book but cannot remember anyhting about it for the life of me.

I had a De carlo phase, read most of his books, then met him casually at a party and decided he was a prat and his books were in fact not terribly good.

Grrr Dp's not home yet and I want to go to the gym!

i always associate de Carlo with a particular obnoxious boyfriend who treated me like dirt and humiliated me in ways i don't even want to remember.... he was a big fan and gave me Arcodamore as his opening gambit... I really should have know better....

PS Herman Hesse... no, me neither...

agree de carlo is a cretin. he does make an awful lot of money though.

pippi as a perugina waht is your low down on the sollecito./knocks case? (nasty gossip emoticon)

Yes deffo Sidddharta was some kind of a rite of passage for Italian 17 yrs old. I read it and fount it quite dull.
As for Decarlo and Tammaro, I've always been too snobbish to read them . Another one I can't stand for his self congratulating style is Alessandro baricco, tbh

btw Pippi... your post of 14:24:53... so, so true...

yes Baricco, i hate him too, with a passion... he did that idiotic and immoral piece after September 11 on how "beautiful" the falling towers were or something....

i like: Camilleri (or rather, i used to like him), Ammaniti, Milena Agus,... mmm i will think of more....

I missed that sept 11 piece, thankfully. Reading Oceano Mare had been enough for me.

Camilleri it's always a nice read (I read most of his books when I was bedridden with chicken pox 4 yrs ago). And I loved Ammaniti Io non ho paura (and the movie was really good too imo).
I've only read a short story by Milena Agus, I liked it.

you should read Mal di Pietre, it's really good.

btw who was it that wanted south american writers recommendations???

It was Pippi, I think
I recommended Vargas Llosa "la zia Julia e lo scribacchino".
I also have friends who like Marcela Serrano, I read one book but wasn't too impressed.
Isabel Allende is often an enjoyable read, but her book that really stands out is My invented country, mostly about her childhood etc. Very good.

Gosh I'm over opinionated, sorry

mmmhhh in the UK papers there is a lot of talk of Bolano, CHilean writer who died a couple of years ago and is now being hailed as a genius...

I also thoroughly enjoyed the Louis de Bernieres South American trilogy (i hated captain corelli's mandolin though!), don't know if that counts?

my other thought would be to try some Indian fiction, I found that it was a logical progression from South America if that makes sense? very similar themes (family, displacement, history, politics etc) and i do love Indian english prose- it is somehow richer and warmer than english english if that makes sense (says the non-english mother tongue know-it-all )