Hello my dear Englishclass friends
I'm quite fine in the nice climate of Australia, however, I have to work hard but it's actually efficient to study in the native speaking environment. Now, I would like to tell you a amusing story:
After I’d finished reading Donna Leon’s Thriller a second time I was looking for something new to read and so I went to a bookshop in Perth today. However, it was quite difficult to find the most entertaining, well-written and heartrending book under dozens of provided bestsellers.
I then asked a salesperson whether she could help me to find a suitable book. ‘What are you looking for? Fiction, non-fiction, crime, thriller?’ she asked me. ‘Well’ I answered, ‘I suppose I’d like something like ‘A Bag Of Bones’ by Steven King a read recently. Are there any other books written by this author available?’– ‘I know, there are some books of King, I can see it on the website, but we don’t have them in our shop. Do you want me to order any of this books for next week?’ – ‘Oh, no, thanks, next week I’m not anymore in Perth, ehm…’ – ‘So when you read a book of Steven King, do you like thrillers?’ – ‘Yes, why not, of course, I recently read a thriller of Donna Leon but…’
’You read Donna Leon!’ an older lady asked me who had overheard our conversation, – ‘Yes, I’ve read one.’ – ‘Which one?’ she wanted to know. – ‘Through A Glass, Darkly’ I answered. ‘Did you read it too?’ – ‘Yes, of course, and all the other ones. I like her, I like her so much!’ – I was curious to know what she meant exactly so I asked her, ‘You mean Donna Leon?’ – ‘No, no, not her, I mean the lady in the office, you know, the secretary, she is so funny, all the time, she is a good girl, Brunetti’s lucky to have her assistance’ she explained me. – ‘Ah, you mean Signora Elettra?’ – ‘Exactly, you’ve got it, she’s really nice, isn’t she. You should read all the books.’
After this overwhelming recommendation I first felt a little bit reluctant to choose again a book of Leon, but what should I have bought then. To look for an entirely suitable book seemed to be too time-consuming so I choose ‘Friends In High Places’, an other thriller by Donna Leon, hoping to be a little bit more thrilled than by the last one with the glass-factory case.
So, that's all for now. Enjoy the springtime and have a nice time.
See you in May,
Adalbert
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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