Author: John
Berendt
Title: City of Falling Angels
Description: This
book was my choice for this month for our book group. I had read Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, his
book about Savannah. This book is about Venice.
Source: The nice
folks at Penguin
Writing style: Berendt
has a unique style. He writes about places, but he really mostly writes about
the people who make places unique. I felt like his book on Savannah got off
track when it became more about the murder than the city. This book doesn’t
fall into that trap. Berendt still writes about the interesting people who give
Venice its character, but he doesn’t let any of them run away with the book.
Audience: People
who enjoy reading about places or literary nonfiction.
Wrap-up: I really
enjoyed this book. No one does this Berendt thing in quite the same way as
Berendt does, so it makes his books (he has only written these two) special. It
didn’t make me fall in love with Venice, but it did make me wish I had the
skill that Berendt does to pry peoples’ interesting stories out of them. 5/5*
No comments:
Post a Comment