These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Venetian Mask; by Rosalind Laker.
"Two friends who were resident pupils in a convent in Venice and had more spirit than could be tamed by the convent begin in this story by going to the festivities using masks, which everyone does of course, so they are not detected, and thus begins this story, a story of friendship of the two for life, while they find love and marriage - not necessarily always found together - and challenges in life that they face with courage and always manage to overcome with help of each other. Sounds glib, but the story is quite serious, and one gets very close to the characters, especially the two women, going through their travails with them as one reads this."