When women gather, they do not gossip. No way. 😉 They are commenting about themselves and other women. It is in our nature, after all. Marjane Satrapi, the author of the famous book and movie “Persepolis,” is more poetic when describing…
My young friend Iulia, who is specialized in parenting, recommended “The read-aloud Handbook” to me. At that time, I didn’t know about Jim Trelease’s book, but I was behaving accurately as the author advised the parents: I was reading aloud to…
Imagine being eighteen years old and spending the last seventeen years of your life stuck in your own house. This is what the author, Nicola Yoon, envisioned in her first beautifully written novel. While I was reading the book, I felt…
This book was published for the first time in 1964, and the target audience was, at that time, the women who had a wardrobe consisting of different garments for the morning, noon, and night. Today, women get fashion advises from magazines…
Every time I visit a foreign country, I end up going to a bookshop and buying myself books written in English. It is a MUST for me. However, when I visited Havana, Cuba, I was not able to find any books…
It is no wonder why Bill Gates is so generous with his money by donating it to different causes. After reading Bill Gates Sr’s book, I understood he and his wife raised their three children and taught them to be philanthropists.…
This was one of my boys’ favorite book when they were younger. I was the first one in our family to read it and when I told them the story, they instantly wanted to read it by themselves. This was due…
Steve Biddulph is my Australian friend that I have not yet met. The reason why I consider him my friend is that the teachings from his book were remarkably helpful to me as a young mother living in Romania in the…
“The color of earth” is the first piece of Manga literature that I have purchased thanks to my eldest son. His interest in Manga began when he started reading <<Naruto>> when he was nine years old. For this reason, I had…
With twenty-four years between the author Yeonmi Park, and myself, I feel that we share specific childhood memories, which to me is extraordinary. I would not have imagined that being born in Romania in the year of 1970 during the communist…
Recent Comments