“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…
The future world, imagined by Pierce Brown in his all three books: “Red rising”, “Golden son”, and “Morning star”, is like this: 1. the people will be able to live on Mars (so, all the talks that we have right now…
In almost all the women’s magazines that I read, we are told that the beauty that matters lies within us and not on the outside. Behind closed doors, all of us (men and women) talk about the beauty or the ugliness…
“My beloved wife, I suffered while I was writing these misnamed “sonnets; they hurt me and caused me grief, but the happiness I feel in offering them to you is vast as a savanna.” PABLO NERUDA (1959) XI “I…
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…
“There was an increasing obsession with the problem of age and how to avoid it personally, through diet, exercise, chemical formulas, plastic surgery, moisturizing creams, psychological defences, and outright denial– as early and as long as possible”. Nobody prepared me to…
On HBO GO you can watch the series “Victoria”, realized after the book with the same name, written by Daisy Goodwin. It is always more comfortable for me to read historical facts through fiction. So, I was very interested in reading…
A long, long time ago, for every American girl (filthy rich) there was an English boy (poor but owning a great title). The contract which was not written but well understood in advance meant that the American girl by marrying the English…
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