Bel Canto

Bel Canto

2001 • 318 pages

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This was such an interesting story. I finished it in just two days. All the characters were so interesting and I found myself loving them all, even the terrorists. The ending was so sad and the epilogue caught me by surprise.

August 7, 2020
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December 16, 2019

Read this years ago, still great on re-reading.

June 9, 2017

Second book about opera I've read this month. A great, if slow read. Beautiful words meant to be picked apart rather than devoured. I kept thinking this would make a hell of a movie, but it would surely be done all wrong.

February 12, 2012

This book actually made me cry, which is not an easy thing to do.

September 11, 2009
January 30, 2020

A haunting, beautiful, tragic book about a botched kidnapping that turns into an extended hostage situation and the relationships that develop, all wrapped in opera.

August 27, 2012
March 9, 2021

I read this book mostly at work, which was actually perfect considering it deals with hostages trying to make it through the minutes-hours-days with very little to occupy their time. A very subtle book that is all about quiet anticipation. I thought it was wonderful.

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April 5, 2018

amazing book, about a hostage situation. Highly recommend it.

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March 17, 2013

Love Ann Patchett. She wove the structure of an opera into a story “torn from the headlines” and made two things that hold no interest at all for me – Peru and Opera, into a beautiful story with a host of people who came alive for me.

March 27, 2014
October 19, 2021

As long as you're willing to suspend some significant disbelief, this is a lovely, heartwarming book.

December 20, 2021