Bernini - His Life and His Rome - Amazing!

Bernini - His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando is an absolutely amazing read!  I was set on this path by reading Four Seasons in Rome and viewing the transforming Apollo and Daphne in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy.  The book goes into both Bernini's life and that of Baroque Rome of the 1600s.  Not only was Bernini a sculpture, he was an artist and architect too.  He lived to be very old and worked for many popes.  The book brings alive the Rome of the day.  Absolutely amazing!

Four Seasons in Rome - I Wanna Go Back!!!

Four Seasons in Rome:   On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World by Anthony Doerr was an outstanding travel diary of a family in Rome for 1 year in 1999.  The book was descriptive and funny and about living in Rome.  Highly recommended if you like Rome, Italy or travel diaries.

White Heat Not White Hot!

White Heat by MJ McGrath was not the book I thought it would be. Set in the artic, Ellesmere Island,  the lead character,  Edie Keglatuk has to solve a mystery of two explorers killed while she was guiding them on Craig Island.  Then the mysterious suicide of her step-son.  The deaths keep piling up as does the passage of time.  The story was plausible, but the passage of time in the novel was not.  (Partly to do with alcohol abuse by the lead character.) 

I don't know, but somehow the book was just too long for the story the author wove.  It was not my favorite, though the pace did pick up at the end.  I wasn't crazy about this book.