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I have completely fallen behind on my reading updates, so I thought I'd try to catch up a bit. My most recently read book was read on the journey to Italy, where we are spending a couple of weeks this summer. I know a few words in Italian, but far from enough to talk or understand much of the language. Italian is not really difficult to learn, but as an adult I struggle because the vocabulary doesn't seem to stick as easily as it did when I was young. And of course I don't get to practice it very often. But in an effort to catch up with the few phrases I knew, I bought this book to read on the plane. I must admit I'm not really a fan of the 'for dummies'-books. I recently started British History for Dummies , and I get a bit irritated because I don't feel 'dum' enouogh. It's style is more suitable for children, I feel. But not this Italian book, though. It tries to cover an enormous area in very few pages and is thus doomed to fail. It lists so...