Oh, how I love the summer holidays. No school timetable, no homework stress, no slightly underslept teenagers to negotiate with... I will happily ferry children to art classes, friends houses and the mall, knowing that there will somehow be enough hours in the day to get everything done, and when I'm at work I worry about them -- and our Longhorn babysitter -- far less.
We all go to the library and return with stacks of books and dvds. Lucy is tearing through the Gossip Girl series with a bit more determination than I'm sure it warrants, but she's also just finished Anna Karenina, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and Laurie Lee's autobiographies so I"m not too worried. I consider myself a boringly serious reader, but I also am a fan of Commissario Guido Brunetti and generally have one of his adventures lying around the house or secreted at the back of my Kindle.
Here is evidence that I am not alone in my enthusiasm for Donna Leon's Venetian detective. I have never been to Venice (yes, I know, 20 years in Europe and I never got there. A waste.) but when I do, I'll be sorely tempted to take the Brunetti Guided Walking Tour. Phil will have to pretend he doesn't know me....
And it seems that German television is dramatizing 16 episodes for broadcast. Here is a picture of Uwe Kockish, the German actor who plays the Commissario.
Hmmmmm. I'm not convinced. He's too smartly dressed and too edgy for my Guido. He should be clearly middle-aged with a bit of a paunch, especially after all of Paola's pasta and red wine lunches....
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