My friend Gabriela was the one who told me about Esther Perel and her book “Mating in captivity”. After I read it, I was lucky enough to listen to Esther Perel at a conference in Bucharest. While Esther was shocked to…
Any relationship/ marriage has multiple facets, and the writer A.S.A. Harrison (who died before her first novel “A silent wife” was published) knew very well to show it to us. I must confess that when I read the book in 2013,…
I discovered the author Julian Fellowes in 2005 when I bought his book “Snobs”; this was happening five years before he created the famous series “Downton Abbey”. The action of the book takes place in England in the ’90s, and the…
Being inspired, probably, by the increased number of plastic surgeries, especially for the very young people, Scott Westerfeld wrote the trilogy UGLIES. The author imagines the future world, divided into UGLIES and PRETTIES. “… maybe that was why they separated uglies…
I love dystopian novels because I find the writer’s point of view about the future exciting. Lauren Oliver, the author of the trilogy DELIRIUM, believes that in the future, love is a disease and the people will be cured through a…
Lang Lang, the famous Chinese pianist, is telling us in his book the story of his life and how he became the world known pianist. “In China in 1991, a nine-year-old pianist had little hope for a career without attending the…
For his first Thanksgiving Day in the White House, President Barack Obama invited chef Marcus Samuelsson to cook the festive dinner. It was his primary mandate as the President of the United States and at that party were invited a lot…
“The STASI was the internal army by which the government kept control. Its job was to know everything about everyone, using any means it chose. It knew who your visitors were, it knew whom you telephoned, and it knew if your…
New York is a world in another world. The people who live in Manhattan represent a significant part of the wealthiest 1% of the richest in the world. Written by Wednesday Martin, an anthropologist with first-hand information about this particular world…
When I visited Singapore, I did not know about Lee Kuan Yew. The only things I knew were that it was a country with the Mussulman population predominantly, the economic growth was right and that the women were encouraged to work,…
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