30 Oct 08 Women In The Medieval Period
The novel The Book Of The City Of The Ladies discusses all about the position of the women in the medieval culture. The Lady in the story is asked to build a city in which womankind can be defended against slender. It is recommended to only those interested in medieval period stories. Author became highly respected voice on the status of women as an effort to defend womankind.Pizan has released her book to defend womankind against various charges. This book helps learning about so many different women. This book can be read in parts which will act as a source of meditative reading. Author being a woman writes it in the feminine point of view.
27 Oct 08 A Mystery That You Would Love
Blackout set in Rio de Janeiro is an exceptional psychological thriller. This is Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Rosa sixth book in the Espinosa mysteries. He is one of the best selling novelists for he sure knows how to keep the reader hooked to the story. In this book Inspector Espinosa is perplexed about the murder of one legged beggar on the posh streets of Copacabana. He cannot think as to why anybody would want to murder a beggar. The second murder of a wealthy urbanite seems to have a link with the first murder. The clues that he discovers only seems to twist the plot.
25 Oct 08 Like To Read About Women’s Liberation?
This debut novel by Cristina Garcia tells the story of a few Cuban women in the 70’s and 80’s. The novelist paints the picture of the Cuban revolution through their eyes. The story is evolved through the memories of the Del Pino family, The Widowed matriarch Celia, daughter Lourdes, daughter Felicia and grand daughter Pilar. Each of these characters has a mystical touch to them. The dream like quality of the book takes you through the story which has violence, murder, passion, birth and death. It is an interesting book which provides a great insight to the island nation.
22 Oct 08 Interested In A French Mystery?
The Lady In The Car With The Glasses And A Gun is one of the best murder mysteries you can read. The novel is full of the charismatic characters and complex plot development .The lead character a beautiful lady Dani takes her bosses Thunderbird for a joyride, where in one of the service station bathroom her hand is broken by a mysterious assailant. The events in the novel are complicated and unpredictable. It has been ended fantastically giving all the readers a surprise. The lead character is a fully realized character whose inner reserves of strength and wit are gradually revealed. Novel has good characters, excellent writing and original plots.
18 Oct 08 Want To Know About Helen Of Troy?
Friesner nicely blended history and myth to weave story of young Helen who will become Helen of Troy. The story offers up adventure and humor .The novel speaks about Helen when she was young girl who is not just pretty but also self determined like men in those ages.Friesner narrations strongly project female dominance. The story goes with Helen as a women child meets mythological heroes and making her own decisions in a time when women are supposed to be passive Helen always felt that being beautiful was not enough. She skillfully narrates the feelings of Helen towards man in her life, her brothers and sisters, the country she lived in.
14 Oct 08 A Touching Story
The novel called City Radio is set in a war torn country, where the protagonist Norma is trying to trace her missing husband through her radio program Lost City Radio. One day a boy victor lands at her station with a list of missing person from his village 1797. Norma recollects that this was the same village that her husband had gone missing from. With the help of Victor she goes looking for her husband and discovers some unpleasant truth about her husband. Daniel has painted a very poignant picture about the war and the ill effects of it on the masses.
12 Oct 08 Latin Primer
Recently there has been a great surge in the sales of Revised Latin Primer by BH Kennedy. If you are wondering what lead to this then the reason is people want to be able to better understand the book Amo, Amas, Amat … and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover. This book has all the things that a Latin lover would need to read about. It will help you in giving a thorough understanding of the language which is considered to be almost extinct nowadays. But the sales at the online book store amazon.com has shown that there are a number of Latin lovers out there in the world. You can also obtain this book in the E-book format nowadays which is ideal for the people who prefer to live in the cyber world than the real world.
08 Oct 08 A Different Love Story
Cherie and the Last of Cherie is love story between a very young man and a charming old woman. It is an interesting study of French business woman and the person who served them. It is written by a French woman who understands the feelings of love and compassion much better than men. The lead male character Cherie spends six passionate years with his love Lea marries her and eventually leaves her for personal reasons. Later he realizes the importance of his love and suffers separation from his love .Novel displays dramatic transformation of character which was the apparent purpose of the author. Author skillfully extracts colorful realistic drama out of ordinary people’s lives using sensitive prose.
07 Oct 08 Want to Learn Latin?
Latin is considered to be one of the oldest languages in the world and learning it will help in better understanding many other languages. There is a book called ‘The Everything Learning Latin Book’ that will help in understanding the history and evolution of the language. Further it has extensive pronunciation exercises and glossary to help people in grasping the language. It is said that learning Latin will help in easier learning of numerous other languages and this book is the ideal way to achieve this. It has information on classic literature, legal and medical terminology and so on. This book is now available as an E-book in order to enable people to learn it with ease.
02 Oct 08 Learn French the Easy Way
Learning a new language is always a pleasure. Every new word or phrase that we learn will make us very happy and we will definitely try and show off our newly acquired talents to everybody. But it is not very easy to learn a new language. There are a number of books that are available to help people in this regard. Numerous books and CDs are available to help people in this regard. Getting a printed book might be a difficult thing as one needs to keep carrying it around. Tell Me More is a company that has excellent E-books that will be very easy to use. You can order them online and can immediately download it. Further some of these E-books will also have supplementary material which will enable readers to learn the pronunciation.
