{"id":5500,"date":"2015-11-15T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:36:05","slug":"about-face-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5500","title":{"rendered":"About Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jqewTD\">About Face<\/a><\/em> (2009) <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/leond.php\">Donna Leon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jqewTD\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/About-Face-1.jpg?resize=196%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6495\" \/><\/a>I clearly remembered parts of this book, which meant I wanted to re-read it. <\/p>\n<p>Guido and Paola are invited to a dinner at her parents&#8217;, and Guido meets a woman who captivates his attention.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I beg your pardon.&#8217; Brunetti answered, stalling.<br \/>\n&#8216;You beg my pardon because you don&#8217;t understand my question, or you beg my pardon because you spent the evening talking to Franca Marinello and ignoring everyone else?&#8217;<br \/>\nThe vehemence of her question surprised Brunetti into bleating out, &#8216;But she reads Cicero.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;Cicero?&#8217; asked an equally astonished Paola.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8216;You realize, I hope, that you are married to the only woman in this city who would find that an entirely satisfactory explanation?&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is one more reason to love Paola.<\/p>\n<p>And then a Carabinieri appears asking for Brunetti&#8217;s help in identifying a man who may or may not have been involved in a murder.<\/p>\n<p>Things get complicated from there. But as always, it is the interactions between Brunetti and Paola or Brunetti and Vianello and his other co-workers that makes this story for me.<\/p>\n<p>That and the discovery of what happened to Franca Marinello.<br \/>\n<strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published by Penguin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Face (2009) Donna Leon I clearly remembered parts of this book, which meant I wanted to re-read it. Guido and Paola are invited to a dinner at her parents&#8217;, and Guido meets a woman who captivates his attention. &#8216;I beg your pardon.&#8217; Brunetti answered, stalling. &#8216;You beg my pardon because you don&#8217;t understand my [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,8,42,41],"tags":[97,96],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-10","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-1qI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2016,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/2016","url_meta":{"origin":5500,"position":0},"title":"About Face","author":"Michelle","date":"October 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"About Face (2009) Donna Leon Brunetti and Paola are invited to a formal dinner at her parent's house. 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