In the same period of time when U.K. was leaving E.U. (for real this time), the bookstore WHSmith from Paris was selling the book “How to be British” by Tim Benson. Tim Benson said that: “In HOW TO BE BRITISH I’ve…
I am a girl who grew up reading fairy tales, and I believe in them. The specialists could even say that I was influenced by them. Bruno Vincent decided to translate the classical fairy tales for the Millenials, and thus he…
I always wanted to read philosophy, but I was afraid that I would not be smart enough to understand it. Luckily for me, the company invented by Alain de Botton, “The School of Life”, printed a book to explain philosophy to the…
Having only two months till an asteroid will hit the Earth, four adolescents are forced to look at their life from different points of view. The character that appealed to me was Peter. At the age of 18 years old, he…
“There’s something about music that brings people together.” Before the Beatles were THE BEATLES and before Oasis became OASIS i.e., famous, they were just a bunch of young men enthusiasts about music, making music and hoping that at some point other…
At twenty-two years old, Amaryllis Fox was recruited by the CIA. While she was doing her master at Georgetown University, after she graduated from Oxford University, Amaryllis Fox developed an algorithm for predicting terrorist activity. I was impressed to find out…
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…
Recent Comments