A Thousand Days in Venice... I wish!

To give myself something to do after the majority of planning was complete-- one can only spend so much time blogging!-- I decided curling up with a good book set in Italy would help keep me in an Italian state of mind. 

After perusing lists like this one at Foders.com, I landed on A Thousand Days in Venice by Marlena de Blasi. This story follows the author's memoir of falling in love with a Venetian while vacationing, and impulsively leaving her two grown children and home in St. Louis to move to the floating city. 

It was a light read, but full of fun facts about daily life in Venice (yes, as it turns out, people actually do live there!) and treated the reader to a taste of Venetian food, dialect, sights and customs. At the heart of the book was the romance between the author and her new love "the stranger", and how two people from very different worlds found happiness in each other within the damp and grey city of Venice. 

But really, if a stranger professed his love to you and asked you to move here, 

what would you do? ;)

Next on the list is determining books for the 9-hour plane ride from the east coast to Rome. What are your suggestions for good airplane reads? 

Arrivederci!