Pre-Owned My Venice and Other Essays (Hardcover) by Donna Leon

from nemoman

I bought this book because I collect books on Venice and Italy. I was unaware that she had written a large number of crime novels set in Venice. The book conains a number of short essays loosely organized by topic. I liked her vignettes about living in Venice. I do not care for opera, so her musi...

from dmenon90

Inspector Guido Brunetti, meet your creator, Donna Leon. Did you know that she's a fearsome old dame who adores animals and opera, has lived in Iran and Saudi Arabia, but loves Italy and Venice best of all? OK, you probably knew that last one but I for one was eager to read her musings when I cam...

from thornton37814

Donna Leon, author of the Commissario Brunetti series, has assembled some of her short non-fiction "essays" into a volume. They are grouped into themes such as Venice, animals, America, and books with a few to many essays of varying lengths under each topic. In most volumes of this nature, there ...

from eyes.2c

Charmingly quixotic! Piercingly insightful! What a delightful, sometimes dark group of essays! Witty, sometimes hilarious, often self deprecating, always with an brilliant edge. Nothing is off the table. The conversation cuts a wide swathe through life in all it's complexities. Donna Leon brings ...

from MugsyNoir

In the earlier essays in the book (can't tell what order they were written in), Leon came across as strident and humorless. However, as I read I became more in tune with her style and approach and enjoyed reading her opinions and observation about the many topics she covered. An interesting, quic...