{"id":4022,"date":"2013-09-15T20:38:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T01:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2021-05-31T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T12:10:38","slug":"willful-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4022","title":{"rendered":"Willful Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jSfnsA\">Willful Behavior<\/a><\/em> (2002) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/leond.php\">Donna Leon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jSfnsA\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Willful-Behavior.jpg?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6394\" \/><\/a>One of Paola&#8217;s students asks her if Brunetti can answer a legal question for her. Brunetti says he can&#8217;t give her a clear answer without knowing more about her question, and the answers she does give him only lead to more questions.<\/p>\n<p>It also sidles up to a subject about which I know very little: the part Italy played in WWII.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Just like the French, we couldn&#8217;t forget what happened during the wars fast enough&#8230; (T)o give (the Germans) credit, they looked at what they did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Did they have a choice?&#8217; Brunetti asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;With Communists in charge of half the country, the Cold War begin, and the Americans terrified which way they&#8217;d go. of course they had a choice. The Allies, once the Nuremberg Trials are over, would never have pushed the Germans&#8217; noses in it. But they chose to examine the war years, at least to a certain degree. We never did, and so there is no history of those years, at least none that&#8217;s reliable.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s another good story, that I enjoyed.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/avg_rating_widget\/7703726\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willful Behavior (2002) Donna Leon One of Paola&#8217;s students asks her if Brunetti can answer a legal question for her. Brunetti says he can&#8217;t give her a clear answer without knowing more about her question, and the answers she does give him only lead to more questions. It also sidles up to a subject about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,291,42,41],"tags":[97,96],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-paper","category-police","category-reread","tag-commissario-guido-brunetti","tag-donna-leon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-12S","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1928,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1928","url_meta":{"origin":4022,"position":0},"title":"Willful Beahvior","author":"Michelle","date":"September 5, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Willful Behavior (2002) Donna Leon I really hate the way this series is released\/re-released in the US. 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