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Above all a love paean to the city. Anyone who has not already visited Venice will want to visit, and those who have been there will want to return soon (BOOK LOONS )
Marlena describes the comical pitfallls of falling in love with a Venetian. Well worth reading. OK! ('If you have ever been to Venice..then you will adore this book. If you have never been to Italy, you will love this book. It's earthy, beautiful, emotional and a true story.’ )
Evening Herald ('If you're feeling starved of romance, you'll devour A Thousand Days In Venice by Marlena de Blasi'. Prima )
This is a book to appeal to all the senses, full of interesting sidelights on life in Venice...a thoroughly enjoyable read. (New Books Magazine )
Marlena describes the comical pitfallls of falling in love with a Venetian. Well worth reading. OK! ('If you have ever been to Venice..then you will adore this book. If you have never been to Italy, you will love this book. It's earthy, beautiful, emotional and a true story.’ )
Evening Herald ('If you're feeling starved of romance, you'll devour A Thousand Days In Venice by Marlena de Blasi'. Prima )
This is a book to appeal to all the senses, full of interesting sidelights on life in Venice...a thoroughly enjoyable read. (New Books Magazine )
The Evening Herald (Ireland)
'..you will love this book. It's earthy, beautiful, emotional and a true story.'
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An enchanting love story,
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This review is from: A Thousand Days In Venice: An Unexpected Romance (Paperback)
Like others I initially bought this book because I love Venice. It had an added piquancy for me as a middle-aged woman who loves food, and who unexpectedly fell in love with a stranger. There is a faint whiff of American cheesiness in it very occasionally, but in the main it is a voluptuous and almost poetic account of a new beginning, an odd romance and immersion in the most glorious city in the world. It made me wiggle my toes with pleasure and make myself slow down so I didn't read it too quickly. The account of their wedding is so glorious that I unashamedly sat on a London bus with tears in my eyes while I read it. Can't recommend it highly enough, and not just to sentimental women.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not my Venezia,
By Luthien Arnatuile (Sweden) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Thousand Days In Venice: An Unexpected Romance (Paperback)
Marlena de Blasi eats herself through Venezia while her love story unfolds! I bought this book because I love Venezia and I wanted to "see" a Venezia that a one-day-visitor does not get to "see". I wanted to read about love, a love story that in reality is like a real Hollywood film it turned out. As I turned the pages I of course was intrigued by how love can stumble on you at the most unexpected moments and in the most unexpected places. But I am a hopeless cook! I eat only to survive and I could not care less for all the crumbs of food she ate during her 1000 days in venezia. I have walked the streets that she has walked and did not notice a single fruit, vegetable or restaurant. My interest is in the canals, it's history, the houses, the little details like flowers, cobblestones, narrow alleys, house details and decorations. You will not really find any of that in Marlena's book.
She is a cook but did she have to fill out the pages with recipes? Could they not have been placed at the end so that we who want to just read the story, could have been spared the interruption. I have never seen anything like it and you have to read part of the recipes too since information about her story is there as well. For the love story's sake I recommend this book. It is fascinating to see how a mature couple is trying to get to know each other without understanding each others languages, how they have to fight a corrupt system in Italy to be able to marry and battle the Catholic Church as well and how two people set in their ways, of which one has never been in a relationship at all, have to learn how to compromise.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Romance and Recipes,
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This review is from: A Thousand Days In Venice: An Unexpected Romance (Paperback)
An enchanting and delightful story of romance and recipes. In her biography, Marlena de Blasi tells how she leaves her job in Santa Lucia, America, sells her house and most of her possessions to go and live in Venice with Fernando, a Venetian she has only known a few weeks. De Blasi is passionate about food, choosing and buying the perfect ingredients, cooking them and eating, preferably with friends, but often on her own or with Fernando in the many cafes and restaurants of Venice. She seem to capture the essence of Venice in a story packed full of seductive descriptions of the people she meets and of her wanderings around the canals, piazzas and churches of Venice, while searching out the best ingredients in the markets, the perfect fabrics with which to decorate their apartment and a dressmaker with the vision to sew her the wedding dress she desires. De Blasi captures the Venetian pace of life and the essence of mystical allure of Venice herself. The recipes along the way only add to the enchantment.
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