The one hundred and fourty-first book: #081 The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni
I've noticed that I've been struggling to focus on these historical life stories - this one a love story of a couple kept apart by a nobleman who wants to marry Lucia, half of the couple. They run away from the village and get caught up in the military movements in Milan in the 1600s as well as the plague that struck the area at that time, and there are several chapters dedicated to the historic descriptions of the events of the time, rather than the central love story that takes a while to connect. It didn't read as well, and I think I need to go for a more contemporary novel soon to clear my palate.