# @kirstenalana on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bdz9U1FFe4y
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2430065-kirstenalana-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-01-11T14:03:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kirsten Alana (@KirstenAlana) — https://gondola.cc/KirstenAlana

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Do you have any favorite books about Italy? Italo Calvino was a Cuban-born Italian writer and journalist. If you have not read any of his books, I challenge you to add them to your list. And be prepared to be sucked into a world that’s engrossing and fantastic. He died when I was a little girl but his words from ‘Invisible Cities’ and ‘If on a winter’s night a traveler’ brought the world alive for me in a way only a handful of other authors have. In particular while @dante.vincent & I were in Roma, I kept thinking of the quote,
“You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
Such a good one. So true of so many of my travels and the cities which I’ve been blessed to have explored. Oh and if you’re looking for other books about other parts of Italy, I read ‘The House at the Edge of Night’ on the plane ride to Roma and it was so good I could neither put it down nor go to sleep. I read till I finished it. Thank you for creating such a beautiful story @catherinebanner. 🇮🇹
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Photo taken with my @sonyalpha a7R II which I purchased last fall. If you’re looking to buy a camera in 2018, I highly recommend it and the RX1 RII. Sony does not sponsor me. #sonya7rii #sonyalpha #romaitalia #lovesroma #romacittaeterna #buongiornoroma #leadinglines #symmetrykillers

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symmetrykillers, lovesroma, buongiornoroma, sonyalpha, romaitalia, romacittaeterna, sonya7rii, leadinglines

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