TALLER 2

Matching #2 - Below is information about 8 different books. Choose one book for each person that best matches their interests. Choose "None" if there isn't a match.
 

Rachel is a photographer. She has a long train journey tomorrow and she'd like a good detective story, if possible one with a female detective, which will hold her attention for several hours.

Dean is from California. He's visiting Europe this summer with a guided tour. He wants an amusing book that will inform him about a European country and its way of life.

Norman is away from work after an operation. He doesn't usually read much, but he'd like something to pass the time. He is fond of animals and likes finding out about unusual people.

Gina is a nurse. She likes to read short stories in her meal breaks. She's not keen on action or crime stories, but prefers something gentler, especially descriptions of people's feelings and relationships.

Melanie travels around Italy on business quite often. She wants a book that offers well-organized information as she sometimes has time for a little sightseeing between meetings.

William Holt - Trigger in Europe
This is the story of the author and his horse as they travelled twenty thousand miles through Europe. They slept over 400 nights in the open through the four seasons of the year. Over the Alps, the Apennines and the Dolomites they went, eating, sleeping and facing hard times together.

NORMAN

Barbara Paul - A Cadenza for Caruso
It is 1910. The New York Metropolitan Opera House is preparing a new Italian opera by Giacomo Puccini. It will star Enrico Caruso, the famous singer and friend of Puccini, but a murder disturbs the preparations and Caruso's friend is suspected! Can he save his friend in time? An exciting read for lovers of music and crime.

NONE

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Alta Macadam - Blue Guide to Italy This has been described as 'the best guide in English' to Italy. It includes detailed information on history, churches, museums and art galleries as well as some practical information about hotels, restaurants, transport and so on. There are suggested tour routes, backed up with maps, town plans and illustrations.

MELANIE

4

Sara Paretsky - Deadlock Another dective starring detective Vicki Warshawski. Vic has a personal interest in her latest case. Boom Boom the ice-hockey champion was Vic's cousin. Now he's dead. Vic thinks he was murdered. Why else would her questions about his death lead to other deaths in the Chicago area? You'll stay up all night to find out.

RACHEL

5

Elizabeth Taylor - The Blush Her sharp eye watches men and women go about their everyday lives and explores the mysteries of the human heart. In the short stories, first published in 1958, we see how well Elizabeth Taylor describes hidden depths of feeling and personality with a few carefully chosen words.

GINA

6

Raymond Chandler - Pearls are a Nuisance Three fast-moving stories written by Chandler in the 1940's, including one from the early life of that most famous American detective, Philip Marlowe. The reader is carried at speed through his world of dark streets, double-dealing and death by the writer who has been the model for so many others.

NONE

7

Edith Templeton - The Surprise of Cremona This unusual travel book, written over forty years ago, is filled with descriptions of people and places in Italy. It is both extremely well-written and full of fascinating pieces of information. A good choice for those planning to visit the country for the first time. It is also extremely funny.

DEAN

8 Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
Margaret is an ordinary girl. She has finished university and started her first job. But really she is just waiting to get married. All goes well at first, but there is something inside her which does not want the safe life and the dull husband she has found. A novel which manages to be funny and thoughtful at the same time

NONE