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Saturday, August 12, 2006

Daughter of Venice

Daughter of Venice by Donna Jo Napoli
I hope I got the authors' name right. Anyway, Donata is 14 and lives in Venice in 1592. She and her twin sister want to get married, so they don't have to live in a convent. (Seriously. If they don't get married, they go to a convent. Or else they become hookers. Hmm, tough choice.) But she wants to see Venice, because she's not allowed out of the house. (Go with it. This is 1592, can't have the young ladies spoilt by pollution. Oh, wait, there was no pollution.) So she gets the bright idea of dressing up as a boy, and going out into Venice. And, oh joy, she gets to get tutored like her brothers. So, anyway, it has all of her...adventures. If you could call them that. I had to stop halfway through the book and read the books I reviewed below, because it was sooo boring. Then I finished it, to find out if she does anything cool. Well, I suppose she'd call what happens cool. I call it an wholly unbelievable and unsatisfactory ending.

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