This week's freebie topic, I thought I'd use to celebrate the fact that I am going abroad for the first time in ... decades! Unless you count EuroDisney which is technically in France but felt about as French as, well, Disney. I mean, I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it - even I found it hard to be cynical there - but it did not feel real, let alone foreign! And in preparation for the trip I decided to sign up to DuoLingo and learn Italian - which has taught how to ask for a coffee - posso ordinare un caffè per favore? or vorrei un caffè per favore - how to ask directions - dov'è la libreria - and bizarrely philosophical questions such as perche moriamo or che succede quando muori... To the writers and editors of DuoLingo, are you okay? Anyway, as a reader I also wanted to pre-visit in my reading the city where I am going so these are a series of books set in Rome. To be fair, many of these are yet to be read!
The Book Lovers' Sanctuary 
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