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Living In Italy by Stef Smulders5/24/2023 How did you find the transition to living in a foreign country? Stef and Nico’s B&B, the “Villa i Due Padroni” I am a Dutchman and moved with my husband to Italy in 2008.Where are you originally from and when/where did you move to Italy? Did you move with family? So let’s get started and hear about Stef’s experience as an expat in Italy… In 2014 Stef published his first book (in Dutch) about their life in Italy. The English translation is available from November 2016 as “Living in Italy: the Real Deal – How to survive the Good Life” and has had raving reviews from editorial websites and readers alike. So, today I would love to introduce Stef, a Dutch expat who moved to Italy in 2008, accompanied by his husband and dog, to start their own Bed&Breakfast: the “Villa I Due Padroni” in the Oltrepo Pavese wine region, just 30 miles south of Milan. Due to popular demand and the possibility to get in touch with other bloggers, I’m glad to interview and share with my readers this kind of experiences. I realized that many of my followers are interested in learning about the experience of other expats who decided to move to Italy.
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A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa5/24/2023 I would definitely recommend this book to my readers especially those who love memoirs, who enjoy political reads and are interested in non-fiction. It is a one-of-a-kind memoir that documents the brutal life of a North Korean. He then talks at length about how he came to reside in North Korea and the many tortures, atrocities and extreme poverty that he lived in there.įinally, he traces his escape from North Korea to the safe haven of Japan. The author documents his early life as a child when he used to live in Japan. It is essentially a memoir which talks about the life journey of Masaji Ishikawa who is one of the very few lucky people to have escaped the hell hole that is North Korea. Read on to know about my thoughts on the book. It was a sad and eye-opening read for me one that I would definitely urge every book lover to read. These are Palestine by Joe Sacco, Being Reshma by Reshma Qureshi and A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa.Ī River in Darkness is a book that left me wondering about the madness that this world is still full of. To make up for the loss and also because I really was in a mood for the genre, I picked up a lot of non-fiction books in December.Īmongst the many that I read three were my absolute favourites and worth a mention here. Unfortunately, though, I did not read even single non-fiction. November is supposed to be the month that one reads non-fiction.
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The hidden life of trees5/24/2023 When that happens, the forest is no longer a single closed unit. The survival of the fittest? Their well-being depends on their community, and when the supposedly feeble trees disappear, the others lose as well. Whether the reason for their decline is their location and lack of nutrients, a passing malaise, or genetic makeup, they now fall prey to insects and fungi.īut isn't that how evolution works? you ask. Weaker members, who would once have been supported by the stronger ones, suddenly fall behind. And there are now a lot of losers in the forest. This is because a tree can be only as strong as the forest that surrounds it. As a result, they are fit and grow better, but they aren't particularly long-lived. Some individuals photosynthesize like mad until sugar positively bubbles along their trunk. Every tree now muddles along on its own, giving rise to great differences in productivity. They send messages out to their neighbors in vain, because nothing remains but stumps. If you "help" individual trees by getting rid of their supposed competition, the remaining trees are bereft. “When trees grow together, nutrients and water can be optimally divided among them all so that each tree can grow into the best tree it can be.
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The Video Nasties by Martin Barker5/24/2023 Nucleus Films’ release of Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide (2010) is a terrific three-disk set devoted to the uproar in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain over the availability of violent movies in the new home-video market. What a new and highly engaging DVD has to say about these questions is very illuminating. And the idea that most people need to be protected because they are not capable of deciding for themselves what to read or watch or listen to is sheer paternalism. But the idea that global bans on certain classes of books, movies, music, etc, will somehow eliminate whole ranges of social problems is demonstrably false. The complete denial that certain elements of pop culture, for instance, can’t possibly do anyone any harm under any circumstances, doesn’t really hold up – of course some people are going to be adversely affected by some of the things they see and hear. It’s never just simply a clear cut question of “this” or “that”. Issues of censorship and freedom of speech are always more complicated than we’d like.
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The paris winter by imogen robertson5/24/2023 Imogen grew up in Darlington where she attended the local comprehensive school before she moved to a boy’s public school that took in girls in the sixth form. Imogen is peculiar in that she is a novelist and a poet, which is perhaps a result of her education. In 2005, she wrote a poem about the danger of suicide bombers on the London Underground that was feted by the 2005 National Poetry Competition. As a published poet, the shelves of her house are full of slim irregularly shaped volumes of poetry that she reads almost religiously. She has always been interested in writing and has great interest in poetry. Her 1000 word draft is what would later become her highly popular debut, Instruments of Darkness. In 2007, she was one of the five winners of the First 1000 words Daily Telegraphs Novel in a Year Competition. Before her big break into the writing of historical thrillers, she worked as a director for radio, TV, and film. Imogen Robertson spent most of her childhood in Darlington, before she left as a teen to study German and Russian at Cambridge. She is best known for the Crowther & Westerman series of novels set in Georgian Era England. Imogen Robertson is a British author that hails from Darlington.
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Shana by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss5/24/2023 rich/upper class - a criminal (possibly) If one lover chases another. In 1749, heiress Shanna Trahern marries convict Ruark Beauchamp, only to abandon her bridegroom to set sail to the Caribbean, with her determined bridegroom in pursuit. From New York Times bestselling author Kathleen E. 'Shanna' is a magnificent tale of freedom and passionate destiny from incomparable storyteller Kathleen Woodiwiss. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Time/era of story - 1600 to 1899įorbidden/mismatched love? - Yes How mismatched? - loving criminal Difficult/unusual lover? - Yes How difficult? - wild lover Seduction/coercion/force - Yes How seduced/forced? - threat of exposure of secret Struggling with whom? - Dad Virgin, dramatically devirginized - Yes Hidden Identity/Secret Motive - Yes Is really. Leggi Shanna di Kathleen E Woodiwiss disponibile su Rakuten Kobo.
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Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries-panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.
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John irving's a prayer for5/24/2023 The World According to Garp sold over three million copies in its six-month occupation of the American bestseller lists and was awarded the 1980 National Book Award. "I told her not to worry," laughs Leggett, "and I explained that John's novels never sell very many copies. It was published in 1978, three years after Irving had left Iowa, and shortly after publication a student expressed her surprise to Leggett that one of its characters had the same name as her. John Leggett was the workshop director and recalls a colleague suggesting Irving as "something of a charity case", but it was while at Iowa that Irving published his third novel (The 158-Pound Marriage) and worked on his fourth, a book that would be his most ambitious project to date. His first two books, Setting Free the Bears (1969) and The Water-Method Man (1972) had been reviewed both widely and appreciatively, but he made ends meet by teaching and accepted a post at the prestigious writers' workshop at Iowa University where he had been a postgraduate student a few years earlier. I n 1972, John Irving found himself in the frustrating position, familiar to many young novelists, of being unable to make a living from writing fiction.
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How the scots invented the modern world5/24/2023 In this case, Lowland Scots copied the English. The Scots also made key contributions to the military, economic and administrative success of the British Empire.ġ8 th Century Scotland is yet another example of how a nation can transform itself within a few generations by copying wealthier nations rather than resenting them.The willingness of the Scots to copy the best of the English while not being held back by their traditions was a key to their success.Adam Smith, David Hume, James Hutton, Adam Ferguson, Frances Hutchinson, James Mill and James Watt were some of the greatest thinkers of their era.Edinburgh transformed from a sleepy regional capital to a city that rivaled London, Paris and Amsterdam in importance.By 1780 Scotland was on the cutting edge of trade, economic growth, culture, education, social sciences and philosophy. In 1700 Scotland was one of most backward of European regions.Scotland benefitted enormously from the Act of Union with England.Herman overviews the incredible intellectual achievements of 18 th Century Scotland, particularly Edinburgh. If you enjoy this summary, please support the author by buying the book. Title: How the Scots Invented the Modern World
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Shannon messenger let the storm break5/24/2023 But even if they survive the storms sent to destroy them, will they have anything left to hold on to? With the Gale Force weakened by recent attacks, and the power of four collapsing, Vane and Audra are forced to make a choice: keep trusting the failing winds, or turn to the people who've betrayed them before. She possesses the secret power her enemy craves, and protecting it might be more than she can handle-especially when she discovers Raiden's newest weapon. And the farther she flees, the more danger she finds. Even from Vane, who she doesn't believe she deserves. And as his enemies grow stronger, Vane doesn't know how much longer he can last on his own. By the treacherous winds that slip into his mind, trying to trap him in his worst nightmares. By the lies he's told to cover for her disappearance. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. Whirlwind romance and breathtaking action continues in the sequel to "Let the Sky Fall," which Becca Fitzpatrick called "charged and romantic." Vane Weston is haunted. By the lies he's told to cover for her d. |