Dogs Still Know Best Two Angels Guide their Human Thought, Grief, Learning & Love by Angie Salisbury with Iris Matos

Dogs Still Know Best Two

Angels Guide their Human Thought, Grief, Learning & Love by Angie Salisbury with Iris Matos is the real story of Angie, her passions for dogs and the terrible loss of both her dogs. The author musn't convince me of the power of love and the existence and presence of our beloved pets passed away. I know that not just pets but also humans are watching over us once dead and maybe with more power than not when they were alive. When my little dog died because a bit old, he appeared to me in dreams. He was peacefully and beautifully running in a field with green grass and he was happy. I dreamt him two times in this way and sometimes when I go somewhere for a walk sounds strange not communicate anymore with him. Walking  with a dog in a daily base is an extraordinary discovery.

The author suffered terribly when both of her beloved dogs disappeared, but this pain became reason not just of growth but discoveries, sensorials, emotionals, feeling that her beloved pets were and are still here; because her dogs didn't never abandon her but they are still close to her; they started to appear to her with special signals after their death. A touching account for whoever is in love for dogs and pets in general.

Highly recommended.

I thank NetGalley for this ebook.

Anna Maria Polidori 

The Fashion Designer, written by Nancy Moser

The Fashion Designer, written by Nancy Moser

is a quick reading and the second book of the saga The Pattern Artist. The story of Annie starts this time when, arrived more or less from a year in NYC with her husband, we are at the beginning of the last century decides once she lost her job  to launch herself in the world of fashion and style creating a brand in grade of being worn by all women thanks also to other friends.

They are at first financed by a couple although this couple would want something more classic and exclusive. The story is long but pretty quick, because plenty of dialogues. 

Situations that protagonists will cope with are the msot diversified. 

I appreciate a lot the courage of these group of women, and their tenacity for realizing their dreams and what they wanted to become in their existence. 

Many thematic, some of them also pretty devastating, this book  opens a large discussion about a lot of topics.

Warmly recommended.

I thank NetGalley and Barbour for this ebook.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Frasi, e Parole d'Auguri Il Bon ton del Regalo Come fare pacchi regalo, fiocchi e biglietti d'auguri Il linguaggio dei fiori

Yesterday, going to Gubbio I stopped by to the Bookstore of DelBaldo a publishing house I love so badly and asked for the offer of three books at just 5 euros. In a myriads of available titles, books of angels are close to the one of cooking, baking, gardening, manuals for remembering birthday close to the ones of inspiring journals, I discovered this one: Frasi, e Parole d'Auguri Il Bon ton del Regalo Come fare pacchi regalo, fiocchi e biglietti d'auguri Il linguaggio dei fiori.

Apparently another book to keep for some inspiration, I thought. But I know DelBaldo and the beauty that there is in this publishing house. And so, Oh my Goodness, when I opened it I remained shocked for its beauty. This book is wonderful.

From illustrations passing through poems and beautiful pages of people of culture of all ages and places, divided of course for theme this one is a real treasure to keep or to present to someone else, because trust me, you will make a beautiful figure with it. It is a splendid book to be kept in an area where it would be visible. Romantic, absolutely poetic and stunningly unique a special tribute at the beginnings goes to Catharine Klein  born in Russia in 1861 and dead in Berlin in 1929. She was in fact a great illustrator.

Meaning and colors of flowers, best occasions for presenting them and what flower is best to present for not making a bad figure, cards, graduations, wives, husbands, Christmas, Friendship, religious occasions, birthdays, funerals, Easter, Valentine's Day, you will be guided in a surprising, colored, trip in what it is after all our daily life, with tribulations, joys, happinesses, with a delicate touch because our life must be always plenty of poetry, romanticism, grace and beauty.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Giraffe Asks for Help by Nyasha Chicowore Illustrated by Janet McDonnell

Asking for help is incredibly important; when we are little, but also once grown-ups. This, the main message spread by the children's book Giraffe Asks

for Help by Nyasha Chicowore Illustrated by Janet McDonnell.

Illustrations are superbly amicable, friendly and warm, so children and adults will feel that they are cuddle by nice characters while they are reading this story, accompanied by a warm atmosphere and positive vibes. It pays a lot; children are empatic and it's important to transmit at any level, illustrations and dialogue the idea of being welcomed into the story. It was a long long time I didn't see so sunny characters, with beautiful facial expressions, wonderful smiles as the ones I have seen here.  

The story: Gary is a little giraffe. It's his birthday, the 6th one and he is thrilled because he imagines that at this age he can tries to eat the leaves also from the tallest tree of the savana. Everyone wish him a happy and joyous birthday and Gary is happy of all these attention from the elephant, the lion and so on: he is thrilled and joyous. Just...He can't still reach the tallest leaves in the big tree. He tries in every possible ways but he fails, till when someone suggest him of asking for some help. When he asks for some help everyone is more than happy to realize Gary's dream so that, although not yet sufficiently tall as he should be for eating that leaves, he will reach them thanks to the help of his friends and that leaves will be wonderfully delicious.

Help, asking and receiving help is an important thematic. 

Asking for help means like that a kid is not in grade to do something and so maybe it can be seen as a signal of weakness but...Is it always in that way? Sometimes asking for help means also to interact much more with friends, understanding also their point of view, how a problem can be sorted out seeing and lived it also differently thanks to a second or third perspective given by a friend.

How much your children ask for help? How much autonomous are they? What could be done much better by your children if they would ask for some help?

Your kids, if they will ask for help, will become emphatic people, someone in grade also of giving help when other kids are in difficulty, increasing their altruism.

Help is better than anything else, the message of this powerful children's book published by Magination Press book imprint of the American Psychological Association.

Highly recommended to everyone; illustrations are so warm and tender, characters so sunny and wonderfully friendly that I know that you will adore this book and if you are a kid you will read it dozens of times because you won't want to leave Gary and Company and their beautiful life.

I want to add that the story has been humanized, so Gary although a giraffe lives in a house with plants and flowers; he has books and sisters playing with various different dolls. 

Oh, I know that you'll love these characters!

I thank Eurospean for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori 

American Indian Myths and Legends by George Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz

If you are a passionate of Native Americans, their traditions, customs, numerous legends and fascinations there is not a best book than this one: American Indian

Myths and Legends by George Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz. Published by Pimlico, I found this book  at the second hand bookstore of the british ladies of the charity Books for Dogs.

These legends are comprehensively numerous. They are old in most cases, transmitted orally and they space from the big thematic of creation to other ones. Native Americans tried also to figuring out why moon and sun are so different. That legend is pretty shocking. A story of an absuse.

We will discover what happened to raven, he wasn't a nice animal after all, and why the crow became black (spoiler: he was white!) and why the owl has this shape. Much much more in a book in grade to make the difference. Most of these legends can be with tranquillity read also by your children or at your children. I would warmly suggested you to do that, because they are stories, legends and myths in grade to develop the fantasy of children and adults as well.

You can read the entire book or as I did, some of them in the various numerous parts, ten, of this book. Captivating, wonderful parts, where all the iconic and dreaming world of native americans is revealed in all its powerful way of communication.

Anna Maria Polidori

NetGalley and problems for downloading ebooks

These past months are very stressing, as you know.

I don't have anymore internet connection at home. At the end I decided of talking of with some attorneys of an association of consumers for trying to sort out the problem. Speaking, it appeared more than clear that I have been also hacked several times and in various websites and that was why, probably I wasn't in grade of downloading ebooks by NetGalley, just an example of what happened during these years.

I am an affectionate of this platform. There are books still not yet published that I can read and review. It is a fantastic experience that I ADORE!!!

I have publishing houses with which I work constantly well, and I love to explore the book universe. But, you know that.

I want to inform all of you that in this phase I changed password at my Amazon.com and Amazon.it site. For a certain time if you visited the Amazon.com profile I lived in Florence. Pity I didn't write down the address; in the italian profile in Rome.

Said this, maybe it will be necessary to reset Amazon Kindle re-starting from the beginning. I am so sorry again with the publishing houses, authors, if I didn't give coverage to some of them properly. Trust me when I tell you that this one is a moment of great confusion.

Many thanks for your attention

Anna Maria Polidori

Email...

Situation of the e-mail where most of the e-mails of publishing authors and publishing houses are conveyed.

Yes there are problems there as well.

Situation became paradoxical also regarding that e-mail because at a certain point it was impossible to check my e-mail as I did in a daily base.

Once it remained blocked for more than a year and half and I started to use another account for receiving my e-mails with great damages because I forgot of reporting to the site of our pensionistic system the amount accumulated during the various current years, paying much more because communicated later.

Anyway, once, for curiosity I googled my old e-mail and voilà! It was working. To me it was a great joy!

I am sorry with christian authors that sent me their ebooks, I participate at their contest with great joy, I love amish books for example but this one is not the best moment for read their ebooks for the problems I told you previously but...Please, continue to send me e-mails. They said me that on January maybe the situation of the dial-up (we don't have DSL or optic fiber, I live in a countryside), will be hopefully sorted out.

I am a very patient person.

Anna Maria Polidori