I bought the book “An emotional menagerie” from The School of Life and I was impressed by the number of emotions!!! “Inside this book there’s twenty-six Emotions you might feel.” Obviously, when I was young nobody asked me how I felt.…
I am a girl who grew up reading fairy tales, and I believe in them. The specialists could even say that I was influenced by them. Bruno Vincent decided to translate the classical fairy tales for the Millenials, and thus he…
I always wanted to read philosophy, but I was afraid that I would not be smart enough to understand it. Luckily for me, the company invented by Alain de Botton, “The School of Life”, printed a book to explain philosophy to the…
My sister, three years older than me, was the one who introduced me to our town’s library. I was very proud that I could borrow books like the other people and I felt that I belong to their world. I still…
When my boys were younger, it just started the social pressure of taking the children to ALL kind of activities (English, because we are Romanians, therefore, English is a foreign language for us, German, individual sport but team sport as well,…
“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…
Teenagers are supposed to have a comfortable life. They don’t have jobs, they don’t pay rent or taxes, and yet, they have their worries such as the pressure to be part of a group, fear of their future, or having to…
Brian Grazer is a movie producer and also one of the founders of the famous company “Imagine Entertainment”, known for Oscar-winning productions such as “A Beautiful Mind” and “The Da Vinci code” among others. You can easily recognize him by his spiky…
“Speak”, is about a girl who has been raped and chose not to tell anyone about it. In spite of the controversy of the subject, some fearless teachers of American literature teach this book to American students from middle schools, high…
Pamela Druckerman is an American journalist who married a British writer, and together they are raising their three children in France. In my case, being born in Romania during the communist era, I fell into the normality of being married to…
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