Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Difference Between Studless

Federica Bosco - 101 ways to forget your ex and find another one immediately

A handbook of advice for girls abandoned by their boyfriends, and who are all of a sudden the sun unexpectedly. 101 tips on a climb from the first day to the last, the first difficult step to the summit, where you will be free, you are free and not slaves of the love of a man who no longer wants to be able to find it and thousands of others, maybe you looked down!
Federica Bosco has a compelling writing, and it definitely has! A collection of humor and misunderstandings, fragments of his life and dictated by suggestions female heart in a very supportive and sensitive. To laugh, but some things are just true, and I identify with some words and some glimpses of my past.


The book is divided into 3 phases. The first with 10 commandments, and that is what not to do too much drinking, smoking, eating, tangled, not to predict the future, not to empty your credit card, do not go by the plastic surgeon, do not stalk, but not beat especially do not let your best friend! Phase 2 includes a number of strategies to mourn. All very good tips to re-connect to themselves, by eating healthy, sleeping, not texting, email, do not write on skype or facebook, do not go out unless you feel like it, throw yourself at work and do not think he starts looking at the people around you, laugh, think to yourself!
Phase 3, finally, includes tips to start life anew. From changing habits, getting a new wardrobe, to refer the look, listen to music, a long journey, reading, cooking, learning to do chores, home of the brave man to become independent, get a cat, buy colorful clothing, call one of with your ex you still a loving relationship, take a theater course, make a feast, and then write a book. What better idea than keeping your love story in a few lines, not to remember it, but because you might be useful? The stories rips tears are winning! Ironic
detailed, and always very friendly, will win you over with its simple and truthful. Why do we say, the boards are very realistic and can truly help.
For the rest? Smile, but it is a book that offers neither you purchase! Better, much better than the novels of Federico.

"better than a pot of yogurt that a kilo of ice cream, dark chocolate better than milk, more milk and cereal snacks, better soy milk for cow's milk, pumpkin seeds best of crisps , dried fruit of the best fried chicken, the better mustard, mayonnaise, jam, Nutella better, better than chocolate biscuits and the best beer of wine. Why the crisis will pass and you'll never need to replace love with food, because you'll be full of love. Love yourself for "



My review has intrigued you? Buy the book!


 Centouno modi per dimenticare il tuo ex e trovarne subito un altro


Centouno ways to forget your ex and find just another
Bosco Federica
Newton Compton, 2010
€ 4.90

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Stripper Term Tie Off

Ian Sansom - The Case of the missing books

The cover of this book is almost an antique very fascinating. I bought it but usually are not very attracted to yellow, though soft as this.
The story of Israel, a graduate in literature, a typical British man who lives in London with girlfriend super busy in tow, he always eats out, it's almost a failed business, sees nothing but the food in London, coffee London, the shops of London, London's expensive clothes, etc.. Israel, a man not just beautiful and a little 'round but highly educated, who dreams of becoming a major bibilioteca the librarian finds himself take a job in Northern Ireland, and facing a trip that will not be at all what he expected. On his arrival in fact, he realizes that the library in which he was to serve as a temporary library is closed, there is nobody, absolutely nobody! And in addition there are books! 15,000 books were taken away to all, in short, someone has stolen them!


Israel, for various vicissitudes, he finds himself without a job, no money, no decent clothes and is forced to accept a position very different from what he believed: a librarian Bibliobus (a truck that would accommodate Volumes have been stolen and traveling a certain number of stops each day, like a real bus, but where is the law!), a battered van to be upgraded without books and really difficult to drive! The whole is surrounded by quirky characters (and most Irish!) Of the small village of Tundrum: people who speak with an accent not quite exciting, no clothes, does not know the minimum academic language, the judge a city snob, not do his own business but also the cultural knowledge which is much lower than normal. Israel feels lost, estranged and excluded. So different, awkward, an elegant man a little 'nerd immersed in the Irish countryside is constantly flooded by the rain, without aid, without his girlfriend (who even answers the phone) and a job that must complete in order to have the money to return to his beloved London and drunk, finally, a decent cup of coffee.
The character Inglese man is very well outlined by the author, and the diversity with people of Ireland (but I'm not too sure may correspond to a realistic view). The love of books is evident but not strong enough to win. The halo that you can almost touch each page is dull, not bright and I was not convinced that much. Yellow is very soft and perhaps more suitable for me but still soft, keep glued to the pages but without a short suspenseful that there must be, the periods should arrive at the climax are very long and they almost lose their appetite to find out ... the highlight of this language is so simple that could then be read by a child of the medium, even if the references to literary, artistic and television and many are reported with a numerino at the end of the book. A weak character, who manages to solve the mystery by-case basis, without any spirit of investigation, and that, given the lack of character intended by the author, has not left me much. A book light, if not light, to read for fun, but do not expect anything more. It is a large yellow, not a great novel. The cover mentions Alexander McCall Smith and his character strong Precious Ramotswe. No type of comparison may be, in my opinion, done. By chance or luck, Precious is a woman of character, Israel is a man devoid of personality. It remains a nice idea, but could be better developed by the author.



Il caso dei libri scomparsi. Le storie del Bibliobus di Tundrum


The case of the missing books. The stories of the Bibliobus Tundrum
Ian Sansom
TEA, 2009
€ 12.00

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Playing Pokemon With The Visual

Greg Dawson - The girl

A book enjoyable and interesting, although sometimes painful, of this Greg Dawson . I decided to buy it after reading a few lines of the first page. One of those novels that you win instantly where understand that writing is similar to your mood and you need to feel satisfied.

is not a fictional novel but a true story. The author traces the life of the mother and sister, two Ukrainian Jews miraculously survived the Nazi extermination. It does so by expressing sorrow and regret, emotion, affection and profound respect. The love of family, mother Russia, music, independence become desperate voice in a story that becomes longer and paste your eyes to the pages.
History Zhanna and Frino, two wunderkind of the piano, music has saved my life.



Raised in the town of Kharkov , the two children are already very small the prestigious Moscow Conservatory , had a father and a mother sweet candy. But things changed over time, even before the Nazis, even before Hitler invaded the Ukraine and his troops (and Stalin quietly left him to do). The extermination of Ukrainian Jews were happening long lost in the fields and mobile gas trucks equipped for use, the first real gas chambers. The concentration camps Auschwitz and Trerblinka were far away, when Russia saw the first death millions of Jews in Ukraine. Zhanna Frino and survived miraculously, managed to escape the march in the snow, on an empty stomach and no possibility to stop, which lasted many days and nights, bringing unsuspecting (or nearly so) Jews to die along Drobitsky Yar. The life of the watch from his waistcoat Zhanna earned him the father, in which a young soldier could not say no.
The two little girls aged just 12 and 10 years, half crossed between Russia bombing, sightings anti-Semites, Nazis and spies, to be able to find a safe place and a place to make new document and change its name. Without money, no family, no warm clothes and above all without music. The violin's father was like a family member and was robbed without mercy. The piano remained in their old house, which had to leave. Zhanna But keep in the inside pocket of his coat, the score with the face of a young Chopin 's Sudden fantasy. Just remember that in his young life destroyed. Between meetings, lucky breaks, bombing, fear, hunger, cold, prayers, the two manage to finally change its name and start a new life. In Germany it is recognized their talent, improvise and play for the Nazis with all their proud hatred, but also, once the war ended, hundreds of Jews who survived the massacre.
Zhanna never forget the warm, Russia, which will seek to return at all costs, as a blind to a love that can not forget. It will be his sister to stop her, and to save her life.
encounter with an American soldier, able to land in New York and crowns the dream of their lives: a scholarship to the prestigious Juilliard Conservatory.

A true story, told in a very realistic Zhanna's son, Greg. An American attached to its origins and eager to bring to light the terrible story of his family. A story never told within the walls of the house, covered with an aura of mystery to all its growth. A story that would be cleared with the rebirth of Zhanna and Frino, two established musicians and listed, which have made the art of music their lives, and to which art has given a chance to live.
Beautiful, must-read.

If you enjoyed this review, you can buy the book here

La pianista bambina


The pianist girl
Greg Dawson
Piemme, 2010
€ 16.50

Friday, December 3, 2010

What Soda Gives The Best Gas

pianist Luca Rota - My girlfriend almost perfect

I learned of this book by chance, by chance as I have indeed read.
Rarely I am going to read books of latest release (this is May 2010), but I was curious of how I got it (but also by its cover, let's face!).

The book was printed by a small publishing house in Ravenna (reverse direction), has a soft cover and the picture looks like a cartoon, with a beautiful girl with breathtaking body in the foreground. The design I loved it!

Luca Rota is a young writer, and it shows. Just a few pages to figure it out. Young writing, young thinking, but deep inside, most of what the book might suggest, any more than the jokes scattered in different pages may have you believe.


Tratanti The protagonist is Tom, a normal boy of 35 years, accompanied by his dog Sandy, a strange dog that knows how to drive, it says. He speaks of himself, his wacky inventions, reflecting on extraterrestrial life, about complicated relationships, on personal physical defects that prevent normal social relations, but also falls in love with Tom, a beautiful girl, very beautiful, the kind that take your breath away. But the girl suffers from a rare, very rare, which prevents the two to live a peaceful and normal relationship to the couple and leads them to absurd and bizarre mating attempts, however, never concluded. The author focuses on the importance of love, values \u200b\u200bof life, trying to convey a message that starts precisely from the depths of superficiality. The externality may affect human relationships to the point of misleading them, cracked, destroy them? Today's society is far too full of appearance that I could not see beyond itself? Somewhere in the world there is someone who can see with different eyes, but the same as yours? So, how to extricate this maze (great and trivial) and to find any fulfillment that can not be "visual"?

The book is incredible. Maybe a little 'too extreme, with a slightly British humor that I was not particularly excited, but that allowed the author to accentuate the feeling of hopelessness that characterizes the protagonist (and perhaps, himself). Surely to understand, some jokes are really minimal and could perhaps be avoided, but it gets the idea of \u200b\u200binadequacy and social diversity. I can say the same outlandish disease of the girl, perhaps too great a defect surreal, where it seems almost more important to arrive at a conclusion that sexual other (even if it is just the other research that the author). Towards the end the writing becomes more loose and deep, as if the author wants to grant its pure interiority shaking off the jokes before. But they are only a few pages, and it is a pity.

short, an unusual novel, a young and easy to write, that perhaps we are not very prepared and we can perhaps smile. But in the end, in the final turn, where you think really come a very profound conclusion, the author chooses to be real and not to tell fairy tales. Showing, in full, and the membership in today's society that you want or do not want you incorporated, you must be bypassed and that, somehow, to survive.

"at the bottom, Sometimes, the flaws are used to extol the virtues "
" the future has a great value, from all points of view: until you arrive, you never know what will ... "