Post by carousel on Feb 3, 2014 17:59:34 GMT
You have had a stressful day and know if you go to bed then you will play the events of the day over and over again in your mind, so what’s the answer, how to get a good nights sleep?
You could take a pill but personally I hate the damn things and they can become addictive. What fills the bill for me is a book, nothing heavy, not even a favourite novel but something that carry’s my mind to a different time, a different place, preferable with a slice of gentle humour for twenty minutes or so.
Such a book is The Little World of Don Camillo by Giovanni Guareschi. A collection of short stories about the same two protagonists; Don Camillo a poor catholic priest who is a big man, tall and strong with hard fists and Peppone the communist mayor of similar build. The time is set in the years after the end of WW 2 The conflict between the two is obvious and which I find results in a delightful read and let’s me drift off to sleep with a smile on my face.
Oh, and if you have religious beliefs or not these stories will not offend you in any way. I promise
An Introduction.
The Little World of Don Camillo is to be found somewhere in the valley of the Po River. It is almost any village on that stretch of plain in Northern Italy. There, between the Po
and the Apennines, the climate is always the same. The landscape never changes and, in country like this, you can stop along any road for a moment and look at a farmhouse sitting in the midst of maize and hemp — and immediately a story is born.
Why do I tell you this instead of getting on with my story? Because I want you to understand that, in the Little World between the river and the mountains, many things can happen that cannot happen anywhere else. Here, the deep, eternal breathing of the river freshens the air, for both the living and the dead, and even the dogs have souls.
Well these books work for me, how about you?