<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Venetian Standard]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Venetian Standar]]></description><link>https://www.thevenetianstandard.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:34:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thevenetianstandard.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Review  Paired Listening — TBD  Acqua Alta — TBD  Read TBD Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, excuse the use of meteorological metaphors, is a typhoon of violence in all its heinous forms. The book revolves around the murder of a Witch in a fictional village in what appear to be present times. With each chapter you start to put together a little bit more of the puzzle, piece by piece. Those familiar with true-crime entertainment will recognize the pattern here. However, rather than...]]></description><link>https://www.thevenetianstandard.com/post/hurricane-season-by-fernanda-melchor</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fe0425514a6e974a593ab</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:13:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/759a92_db2ff371e84248ee803ec21d300c8657~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_712,h_948,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ira GdB</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Review  Paired Listening — Sea, Swallow Me by Cocteau Twins &#38; Harold Budd  Acqua Alta — +100 cm (boots on!)  Read facing West on Zattere There is a particular kind of American mythology built on borrowed grandeur, the idea that if you stand close enough to something vast and eternal, some of that permanence rubs off on you. This sentiment is the death of all in Joyce Carol Oates' slow unraveling novel centered on a fictional Niagara dynasty whose name once meant something along the...]]></description><link>https://www.thevenetianstandard.com/post/the-falls-by-joyce-carol-oates</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ca4cbe447e3bde589669e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:34:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/759a92_475bece81f1c47ab96045f980ecdae6e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ira GdB</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[City Like Water by Dorothy Tse]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Review  Paired Listening — Insomniac by Memo Boy &#38; Chakra Efendi   Acqua Alta Rating — +100 cm (boots on!)   Read during high tide in San Marco  It's horrifying to watch a place you called home erode in slow motion until one day the map stops matching the ground it claims to show. Dorothy Tse catapults this horror across nineteen feverish chapters. An unnamed narrator tries to keep the city and their family together but everything keeps wiggling out of place. That effort itself...]]></description><link>https://www.thevenetianstandard.com/post/city-like-water-by-dorothy-tse</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5ca1d2830cbda37bc0e3ac</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:17:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/759a92_35a5f3ea4fdf411d961b02b45bb27bf0~mv2.avif/v1/fit/w_800,h_998,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ira GdB</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ultramarine by Mariette Navarro]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Review  Paired Listening — Reflections From The Moon by Speedy West  Acqua Alta Rating — +60 (ankle-deep!)  Read in Lido Mariette Navarro spends the length of Ultramarine creating and deciphering the boundaries that an unnamed protagonist has to make for herself in her father's shadow, in man's shadow. The captain is professionally competent but, privately, restless. One day, she makes an uncharacteristic decision to let her crew stop the ship and swim out in the deep water. Nothing...]]></description><link>https://www.thevenetianstandard.com/post/ultramarine-by-mariette-navarro</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5c9f8ee447e3bde5895928</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:03:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/759a92_14cad4e1b44e4c18b0df2c07d9c7fa15~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ira GdB</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delizia! The Epic History of Italians and their Food by John Dickie]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Review  Paired Listening — Spaghetti a Detroit by Fred Bongusto  Acqua Alta Rating — +150 (exceptional!)   Read outside, at a bustling cafe  Thanks to John Dickie, the question of French versus Italian food may never have a clean answer. The terms of comparison carry too much baggage. Delizia! takes its reader on a tour of Italy through its food. Chronological and geographical, it begins with a seat at a medieval table in Palermo and ends with the beckoning call of a Slow Food salon...]]></description><link>https://www.thevenetianstandard.com/post/the-importance-of-sustainable-living-in-today-s-world</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5bbd93f41b637093b1d330</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:53:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/759a92_fdf505738ab547debe9607507527ae85~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ira GdB</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>