{"id":5729,"date":"2016-03-17T20:14:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T00:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2018-04-26T09:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T13:36:04","slug":"the-waters-of-eternal-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5729","title":{"rendered":"The Waters of Eternal Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Waters of Eternal Youth<\/a><\/em> (2016) Donna Leon<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The-Waters-of-Eternal-Youth\"<\/a>This is the 25th book in the Guido Brunetti series, which shouldn’t surprise me, yet somehow does.<\/p>\n

Brunetti remains as astute as ever, with many sharp little comments on life.<\/p>\n

Contessa Lando-Continui had always been polite to him, at times even warm, but he had always wondered if he were being treated as an appendage of his wife and mother-in-law. Did most wives feel this way? he wondered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not that he doesn’t have his blind spots.<\/p>\n

When the maid came around again to offer a second helping, Paola caught her husband\u2019s eye. He smiled back and shook his head at the maid\u2019s offer as if he had meant to do it, failing to persuade Paola but managing to convince himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mystery comes when a friend of his mother-in-law’s asks him to look into an incident that caused her granddaughter to be seriously harmed.<\/p>\n

We see Rizzardi and of course Signorina Elettra, and Paola and the children.<\/p>\n

Is there anyone in the Records Office who might be able to help?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Are you talking about one of my patients, if I might call them that?\u2019 the pathologist began. \u2018Or one of the patients in the wards?\u2019 If possible, Rizzardi\u2019s voice had grown even more friendly, as if he were enjoying the exchange. <\/p>\n

\u2018Someone who was taken to the hospital,\u2019 Brunetti answered. \u2018And who left.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Why don\u2019t you simply ask the Vice-Questore\u2019s secretary to break into the system?\u2019 Rizzardi asked affably. \u2018Unless by now you\u2019re able to do it yourself.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Ettore,\u2019 Brunetti said, \u2018I think you\u2019re not supposed to know about that. Or at least talk about it.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although there are many themes about Italy and Venice that have been repeated throughout the series, occasionally, something new is dropped in.<\/p>\n

\u2018I remember the first time I went to dinner in London,\u2019 she said. \u2018Everyone at the table was English, except me, and after the first course I realized that only one person spoke at a time. When that person finished, someone else said something, and everyone waited until he or she was finished before commenting. Individually.\u2019 She smiled, then laughed, at the memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obviously English. Certainly not any Americans from MY family. <\/p>\n

Is this one of the best Brunetti mysteries? No. But it was comforting and lovely to be in Venice with Brunetti and all the others.
\nRating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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