Marguerite Duras, was a French writer and film director, born in French Indochina on April 4, 1914. Her father was a school principal and her mother was a teacher. After her father’s death, her family had moved to Sadek, where the mother dies during a flood. She is sent to boarding school in Saigon, where she falls in love with …
Read More »TRANSPORT YOURSELF TO THE VIBRANT INDIA – The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things https://www.amazon.com/God-Small-Things-Novel/dp/0812979656 is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated. This Man Booker prize-winner is set in India’s southern state Kerala, away from the glamour of Deli and Mumbai. Commenting as much on human nature as it does on Indian politics, religion and the …
Read More »READING ON THE TRAIN – A leap into the unknown
A train journey can be a terrible thing or comic. Maybe you are not the son of a railwayman, but you too spent a lot of time daydreaming on trains. Sometimes, of the memory of a trip on the train we just have a broken pencil on a seat, a forgotten object from the traveling companion, which had not had …
Read More »LEADING PAGES OF ROMANIAN NOVELS – Mircea Cărtărescu
Mircea Cartarescu was born in 1956, is one of Romania’s leading novelists and poets. Like most of his literary contemporaries of the avant-garde Eighties Generation, his major work has been translated into several European languages. Graduated from the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Letters, between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher (and then at the Writers …
Read More »BOOKS THAT WILL INTRODUCE YOU TO THE BEAUTY OF HINDUISM
MEETING GOD: ELEMENTS OF HINDU DEVOTION – Stephen P. Huyler This volume seeks to enable western readers to witness the devotional practices of the Hindu people. It features photographs documenting the spirituality of common men and women in India, accompanied by definitions, descriptions and stories of Hindu individuals at worship. https://www.amazon.com/Meeting-God-Elements-Hindu-Devotion/dp/0300089058 The author provides descriptions of the many devotional …
Read More »TRAVELING AND READING IN CHINA – Three romance shades to be read
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read slowly, with love and with our inner ear cocked. By reading a written description, your mind is responsible for creating that …
Read More »THREE NOVELS TO READ ABOUT INDIA
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read slowly, with love and with our inner ear cocked. By reading a written description, your mind is responsible for creating that …
Read More »THREE DAY ROAD – Novel by Joseph Boyden
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …
Read More »NOVELS AND HISTORY – Languedoc-Roussillon themed novels
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …
Read More »THE GOOD COMPANIONS – Novel by John Boynton Priestley
Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …
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