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msjoanna 's review for:
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
Very interesting little glimpses of stories. The lack of cohesion moved this from a five-star to a four-star read for me, but I'm intrigued enough, and the book is short enough, that I think I'll read it again immediately. I'm looking forward to discussing this with on of my GR groups, and maybe coming to understand it a little more deeply than I'm able to just reading it myself. Calvino's writing is excellent - clever, evocative, concise. I loved the idea of cities with all these fantastical elements -- one with a parallel city for the dead, one where everything is made new each day and the city becomes surrounded by bigger and bigger piles of discarded items, one strung entirely from webbing above the ground, etc.