Andrea Fiorillo
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The Fiorillo Lensch Family
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My Family By the Book
- My family and I love to read. Some of my favorite books are Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King, J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Jose Saramego's Blindness, and Gilead by Marilyn Robinson. I love theology texts and poetry especially by cummings, Rumi, Neruda, and Mary Oliver. My husband Willy helped woo and win my heart by sharing one of his most beloved books The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. We consider laughing over New Yorker cartoons a high form of romance as well. Willy's favorite readings include The Metamorphosis by Kafka, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, and stories by Sherman Alexie and Annie Proulx. He also gets a thrill from digging up archaic science texts pertaining to blood development and teratomas. (If your curiosity has been piqued by blood and teratomas please follow this link to Willy's website.)
- One of the great joys of parenting is reading with my children (as my mother, a librarian, did with me). Our 15 year old Annie's recent favorites include The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and the Life of Pi by Yann Martel. She also has a soft spot for Tomie DePaola and all things Anime. She began her life as an independant reader with Maurice Sendak's Pierre. Our five year old Dante's newest "Mama can we read this again...and again book" is called The Blacksmith and the Devils retold by Maria Cristina Brusca and Tona Wilson. He loves Imagine by Alison Lestor, The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch, and anything with Holly Hobbie's Toot and Puddle and outer space as well. The first book he read aloud cover to cover on his own was the P.D. Eastman masterpiece Go,Dog.Go!
I am a native Oregonian and would recommend my entire state in general[1] and these four Oregon bookstores in particular to anyone who asked;
