{"id":4159,"date":"2013-10-29T18:57:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T23:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T20:46:30","slug":"through-a-glass-darkly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4159","title":{"rendered":"Through a Glass, Darkly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through a Glass Darkly<\/a><\/em> (2006) Donna Leon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I actually started this weeks ago, put it back down, and then took a long time to get back to it.<\/p>\n

Commissario Brunetti is asked, as a favor, to go out with Vianello, to help bail out an environmental activist (and friend of Vianello) who was arrested during protests. Things take a strange turn from there, when the man’s father-in-law shows up, yelling threats and imprecations at the no longer arrested man.<\/p>\n

It seems like things will end there, but they don’t. And then, halfway through the book, there’s a murder.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that’s why it took me so long to get through this book–it really doesn’t pick up until the second half of the book, when the murder finally happens.<\/p>\n

Despite that, there were still many things I liked about the story, including the peeks at Venice.<\/p>\n

He saw some people he recognized, but it was in a Venetian way of recognizing them, from walking past them on the street over the course of years, perhaps decades, without ever learning who they were or what they did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oddly, I’m familiar with that feeling. Over the years, I’ve seen many people in the halls at work, to the point that I recognize them, but don’t necessarily know their names. It’s an odd kind of knowing.<\/p>\n

It’s not a bad story–not at all–but it’s also not one of my favorite stories.<\/p>\n

Rating: 6.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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