Torrents of Spring
1. A book with food in the title: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2. A book with a body of water in the title: Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
3. A book with a title in the title: The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
4. A book with a plant in the title: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
5. A book with a place name in the title: The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
6. A book with a music term in the title: Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy
Torrents of Spring is more a novella than anything else, and apparently autobiographical. Ivan Turgenev wrote it when he was in his fifties and, in my opinion, nostalgic for his younger years. The narrator is Dimitri Sanin, who at his old age, remembers his first passion. I don't want to give away anything important, but there's love at first sight, great Italian beauties, a duel, a seductive mature woman and a bet. However, the plot is not as engaging as it sounds, and it drags endlessly. Or, at least, I wasn't really into it. The love story is quite cheesy, nothing like Anna Karenina, and the thin plot expands to 300 pages. What I really enjoyed about Torrents of Spring was the poetic and concise style with which it is written. I think I will read other books by Ivan Turgenev, but I don't especially recommend this one book. I think his style may be better in full-length novels.
2. A book with a body of water in the title: Torrents of Spring by Ivan Turgenev
3. A book with a title in the title: The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
4. A book with a plant in the title: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
5. A book with a place name in the title: The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
6. A book with a music term in the title: Celestial Harmonies by Péter Esterházy
Torrents of Spring is more a novella than anything else, and apparently autobiographical. Ivan Turgenev wrote it when he was in his fifties and, in my opinion, nostalgic for his younger years. The narrator is Dimitri Sanin, who at his old age, remembers his first passion. I don't want to give away anything important, but there's love at first sight, great Italian beauties, a duel, a seductive mature woman and a bet. However, the plot is not as engaging as it sounds, and it drags endlessly. Or, at least, I wasn't really into it. The love story is quite cheesy, nothing like Anna Karenina, and the thin plot expands to 300 pages. What I really enjoyed about Torrents of Spring was the poetic and concise style with which it is written. I think I will read other books by Ivan Turgenev, but I don't especially recommend this one book. I think his style may be better in full-length novels.