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lauthika's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
- This book is for nature lovers, I got to know more about trees and wildlife in general.
- The setting of this book is distant for ours but in a refreshing way.
- Through the character's lives, we have a percetion of most social classes at the time.
- It's a book made by a book lover, it's gentle but full of lessons.
- The setting of this book is distant for ours but in a refreshing way.
- Through the character's lives, we have a percetion of most social classes at the time.
- It's a book made by a book lover, it's gentle but full of lessons.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Murder, and War
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
sherbertwells's review
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
From his perch in the Italian treetops, the 18th-century nobleman Cosimo di Rondò becomes a hermit, a revolutionary, a philosopher and a lover to a capricious marquise. Despite a few old-fashioned ideas about women, Cosimo’s story is charming and adventurous: the perfect tale to read aloud, crumb by crumb.
“I follow the newspapers, I read books, I rack my brains, but the things that [Cosimo] wanted to say aren’t there, it’s something else that he meant, something that embraced everything, and he couldn’t say it in words but only by living as he lived. Only by being as ruthlessly himself as he was until his death could he give something to all men” (302)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence
Minor: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Death of parent
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