{"id":5491,"date":"2015-11-08T20:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T01:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:31:53","slug":"through-a-glass-darkly-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5491","title":{"rendered":"Through a Glass, Darkly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>This book does not open with murder–or even with much in the way of crime. It instead finds Brunetti and Vianello heading out to Mestre to help one of Vianello’s friends\/acquaintances who had been arrested during environmental protests.<\/p>\n

I haven’t said much in these reviews about food, which pervades these stories. Perhaps not quite to the degree that they do the Inspector Montalbano books, but there is a lot of food in these stories; don’t read them on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n

But I also like the bits about the restaurants.<\/p>\n

Before Brunetti could answer, a waiter came to the table. He had no pen or order pad, rattled off the menu and asked them what they\u2019d like.
\nNavarro said the men were friends of his, which caused the waiter to recite the menu again, slowly, with comments, even with recommendations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have to say that I continue to enjoy the running joke of Brunetti looking like a cop.<\/p>\n

When the coffee came, Brunetti said, \u2018I\u2019m looking for Paolo Bovo. His kid told me he was here.\u2019
\n\u2018Paolo,\u2019 the barman called towards a table at the back, where three men sat around a bottle of red wine, talking, \u2018the cop wants to talk to you.\u2019
\nBrunetti smiled and asked, \u2018How come everyone always knows?\u2019
\nThe barman\u2019s smile was equal in warmth to Brunetti\u2019s, though not in the number of teeth exposed. \u2018Anyone who talks as good as you do has to be a cop.\u2019
\n\u2018A lot of people talk as well as I do,\u2019 Brunetti said.
\n\u2018Not the ones who want to see Paolo,\u2019 he answered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also appreciated this bit, because it speaks to things I know and have been told.<\/p>\n

He looked over at the two workers, back at Assunta, and asked, \u2018Masks?\u2019
\nThis time she shrugged but said nothing until she had led him out of the room and back into the courtyard. \u2018They\u2019re given two fresh masks every day: that\u2019s what the law says. But it doesn\u2019t tell me how to make them wear them.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is one of the truest statements about workplace safety I’ve ever read in a work of fiction I think.
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Penguin <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I haven’t said much in these reviews about food, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[194,8,42,41],"tags":[97,96],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-5-10","category-mystery","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-1qz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":743,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/743","url_meta":{"origin":5491,"position":0},"title":"Through a Glass, Darkly","author":"Michelle","date":"October 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Through a Glass, Darkly (2006) Donna Leon I've been trying to slowly read--to savor--Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti books. 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