[John Whitworth]

I have just discovered that Brunetti's wife, Paola, has read the Aubrey novels twice and her daughter is now starting on them. Brunetti doesn't care for them, finding them too discursive. But then he doesn't read anything that isn't in Greek or Latin.

[Michael Cantor]

My wife, Valori, has read most of the Donna Leone novels. Fortunately, a new source has appeared.

[Gregory Dowling]

Thanks for this, Michael. It'll take me a while to catch up with Donna Leon in terms of series-length...

[Michael Cantor]

And it will take me a long time to spell her name correctly.

[John Whitworth]

And I can't spell Commissario. We are all Keatses.

[R. S. Gwynn]

Has anyone read the Neopolitan novels about two women friends from the end of WWII onward? I'll have to look up the author's name, but she's just published the final (4th) volume of the series. Worth reading?

Has anyone read The Gallery (set in WWII Naples) by John Horne Burns? Fascinating. Surely the only war novel set in a censor's office!

[Michael Cantor]

Elena Ferrante, Sam. My wife (honest) just purchased all four. She reads. I cook.

But I did read The Gallery, back when it first came out (along with The Naked and the Dead.) Our local library kept "mature" books like that on a special top shelf, the theory being that you could only read it if you were tall enough to reach - and I was eleven or twelve, but extremely tall for my age. Go figure. And many, many years later - on maybe the third read - it finally dawned on me that one of the themes was homosexuality.

[R. S. Gwynn]

Mike, could you email me at rsgwynn1@cs.com. I tried to send you an eratosphere message, but it doesn't seem to have gone through. For some reason I don't seem to have yours on file.