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…
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…
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…
Mark Twain “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Even though I graduated from Textile University, I didn’t know a lot of things from this book. I was glad I had the opportunity to learn…
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…
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…
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