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,…
I was extremely impressed by Barbara Walters’s career because she was the first female journalist in the USA that had her own talk show, but she was also the first female journalist that got one million dollars salary. We are talking…
I was in Berlin when I ate for the first time in a no-lights at all restaurant. As partially-blind waitresses served me, I realized what it means to be blind. And I lost my appetite, and I wanted to leave as…
“My name is Renée. I am 54 years old. For 27 years I have been the concierge at number 7, rue de Grenelle, a fine hôtel particulier with a courtyard and private gardens, divided into 8 luxury apartments, all of which…
When I read the book, I did not know that the main female character was based (more or less) on Laura Bush (the wife of the American president George W. Bush). I also did not know that the story of the…
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