When I read the book, I did not know that the main female character was based (more or less) on Laura Bush (the wife of the American president George W. Bush). I also did not know that the story of the…
My late father used to buy a lottery ticket every week, hoping that he would win a car. He never won. Once in a while, I buy a lottery ticket myself, thinking of my father’s habit. I don’t believe that I…
I loved the analogy between a family and a vineyard. Especially nowadays, in the era of technology, when nobody has the patience anymore to “cultivate” a relationship. Who, among us, has the patience to become friends before the marriage, who has the…
Tarryn Fisher has chosen to share with us the story of her divorce using fiction, and thus we have the novel “F*ck marriage”. Her truths about divorce (wisely mixed in the fictional couple’s story) made me very emotional, and also it…
My country, Romania, is mentioned in the book written by Margaret Atwood “The handmaid’s tale”, due to the law adopted in 1967 that made all the abortions illegal. Because of this law, which was abolished only in 1989, many Romanian women…
“The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. The doctor said he didn’t suffer. The broken body, surrounded by toys, was put inside a grey bag, which they zipped shut.” “The little girl was still alive when the ambulance…
At first, I purchased this book for the title itself. One of my favorite things to do, when I go to the bookstores is to buy books that I know nothing about. I found the title “The people of forever are…
I do not know how it is for other people, but for us, the main events from our life and our’s friends lives seem to happen at the same time. When we were young and not married, so were our friends.…
I remember that, when I have read this book for the first time in 2008, I was amazed that I could “hear” the musicality of the English language spoken by a Pakistani. This being accomplished by the author, Mohsin Hamid, employing…
As a parent, I asked myself “the Big Question”: how far would I be willing to go to protect my child, if my child has done something terrible? Theoretically, I think to myself that I will still keep my moral values…
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