The Female Advantage, by Sally Helgesen
I finally finished this book that I have been reading for a while. It is not a bad book, but it lost my interest a few times throughout. That is maybe because I have very little tolerance for “business talk”…
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Out of the Transylvania Night, by Aura Imbarus
I have just finished reading “Out of the Transylvania Night” and I have to confess that it surprised me. It was a lovely read. Actually, the thing that I disliked a little when first discovering this book was the misleading…
The Beauty Myth, by NAOMI WOLF
Unlike many other books, I find it difficult to review this one. I have mixed emotions about it and it's somehow become very important to me. Obviously, I am a little late in reading it--it was first published in 1991, so almost two decades ago. I am sorry to say, however, that not many things have changed since that time and the book is still, (and horrifically in many ways) accurate and current.Train to Trieste, by Dominica Radulescu
This book has been long waiting to be read and reviewed. It’s time finally came this week and I am excited about it. I felt a lot of affinity with the author and the more I read about Domnica Radulescu…
Women, Food and God, by Geneen Roth
img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3533" src="http://www.loritironpandit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/womenfoodgod.jpg" alt="womenfoodgod" width="332" height="499" />I loved, loved, loved this book. It is now up, up in the list of my all-time favorite non-fiction books, right there along with “The Introvert Advantage”. The blurb says that the book is packed with revelations and it actually does not lie.
The Land of Green Plums, by Herta Muller
Herta Muller won the Nobel Prize for literature and, well, she does deserve it, is what I can say after reading this book. You only need to read through the first three pages and you understand why. It doesn’t take…
Romance Language, by Alan Elsner
Beautiful cover photo, right? It is by Charles Platiau, Reuters News Service.
This is a story that happens with the 1989 Romanian revolution in the background, written by an American journalist who spent nine months in Romania in 2007. As the proud Romanian that I am, it is hard for me to see the images of my country constructed by others, from afar. I get defensive: they have no idea, what to they know, how could they understand the depths, the hidden truths, the dark yet beautiful mysteries of this land and its people. As I grow older I am starting to realize that all this patriotism was instilled in me by communist practices and it is in the end more damaging than constructive, and yet I cannot help but feel strongly for my home country--especially now, when I am so far away from it.Jesus, Interrupted, by Bart D. Ehrman
A controversial book. What other fate could it have had, when it wants to reveal a conspiracy of keeping hidden contradictions in the New Testament and the fact that is was not written by the apostles, or by people who ever met or lived in the same time as Jesus, or who even spoke his language?BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY BY KAY TURNER
Beautiful Necessity, The Art and Meaning of Women’s Altars – the title of this book sounds very intriguing, right? I had to read it. And it started good. It seemed very interesting with a few initial references to altars in…
THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA BY MICHAEL POLLAN
What should you eat, when you can eat everything? This is the omnivore’s dilemma. And this book makes it more fascinating and controversial than ever. As it has been raining in this part of the world for what seems like…