{"id":490,"date":"2007-07-18T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2007\/07\/18\/a-thousand-days-in-venice-a-quick-review\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T04:52:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T04:52:57","slug":"a-thousand-days-in-venice-a-quick-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/ubalblog\/2007\/07\/18\/a-thousand-days-in-venice-a-quick-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Days in Venice &#8211; A quick review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/mood_happy.gif\" alt=\"Happy\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Mood:<\/strong> Happy&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/><strong>[<\/strong>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/images\/weblogs\/action_watch.gif\" alt=\"Watching Coronation Street\" style=\"vertical-align: middle\" border=\"0\" \/> <strong>Currently:<\/strong> Watching Coronation Street&nbsp;<strong>]<\/strong><br \/>Just finished reading this lovely memoire and although it is not a genre book, I had to mention it here.<\/p>\n<p>A beautifully written book about Marlena&#8217;s falling in love with a Venetian man she has just met.  Apparently the man, Fernando, had been in love with her since he first saw her a year ago.  A whirlwind romance follows and Marlena moves to Venice to live with Fernando and negotiates her way through her new life.<\/p>\n<p>The language is beautiful in this book.  There were turns of phrase that had me alternately chuckling and weeping.  For example: &quot;I pull an Aereonautica Militaire sweatshirt over one of Victoria&#8217;s oldest Secrets, slip into Wellies.&quot;  And given that she is a food writer, Marlena includes recipes of some of the food she cooked.<\/p>\n<p>Go get this and read it.  Very beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&nbsp; Mood: Happy&nbsp;][&nbsp; Currently: Watching Coronation Street&nbsp;]Just finished reading this lovely memoire and although it is not a genre book, I had to mention it here. 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