E-1027 is a house built by Eileen Gray for her lover, Romanian architect Jean Badovici, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. E-1027 is nowadays a historical monument and can be visited. Encouraged by Jean, Eileen designed the house of their dreams and supervised its…
Penny Reid is one of my favorite contemporary writers. Not only do I like her writing’ style, but I appreciate her for how she writes normal and smart feminine characters. Only after I read her first book, “Neanderthal seeks human,” I…
” I’d once asked my sister, Emilia, what it felt like. To be normal. To be healthy. To be genetically privileged. She’d said: – Days tick by, as you expect them to. Like fanning pages in a calendar. You make plans. Sometimes…
So, Gabriel Allon is our family’s friend since nineteen books ago. We like him because he is an extremely talented painter and art restorer. We appreciate him for his fierce love of his family. We admire him for how he defends…
Catherine the Great is recognized for her progressist rulership, but she is also known for the large number of lovers she took outside of her marriage. You have to take into consideration that eight years after her marriage, she was still…
The smartest promise ever made by an eighteen years old adolescent to her mother: “And I promised my mother I wouldn’t fall in love with anyone until I’m twenty-three.” And the reason for this promise is: “My mother says that the…
What is going to happen if, in the future, women will only be allowed to speak a hundred words per day? While the men will speak an unlimited number of words per day? Christina Dalcher imagined this situation in her first…
“Dear child, the house pines when you leave. I research whether there is any bird who grieves over its empty nest. Your vacant room is a still-life framed by the unclosed door; read by sunlight, an open book on the floor.…
I love Maria Bello as an actress. And whomever I love, being them writers or actors, that means that I love how well they are doing their job. I am rarely interested in their personal life. Because at the end of…
I knew Rob Lowe from the “The West Wing” series and also as being, at one time, the boyfriend of Princess Stephanie de Monaco. I was pleasantly surprised to learn from his book “Stories I only tell my friends” that there…
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