Choose Kindness 3-Minutes Devotional Inspiration for Kids by Joanne Simmons

Choose Kindness 3-Minutes Devotional Inspiration for Kids by Joanne

Simmons is an original  new book by Barbour all dedicated to children. This time it's their time for reflecting, with devotionals clearly dedicated to them. Great profoundity these prayers are written for let understand to all children their role as christians in the world and how they can play a good job in the society, helping others, being kind with other people but also in their family and with themselves, praying, being grateful for good situations, and when things are hectic at home asking to being more patients for not altering much more the atmosphere  of pain and sufferance.

At the same time there are prayers for being kind to older people; for being there to them, for being helpful, for listening to them and their wise words. There are prayers for every occasions; schools, friends, for homeless and needy; but also thinking at funny moments, when children play at the park or in the kitchen; children can ask to being peacemakers, good people in the sociel tissue, but devotionals are absolutely many and all in their beauty, of great help to these children.

I found this book fresh, and absolutely a good reading for your children.

Highly recommended.

I thank NetGalley and Barbour for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Praying your Way to Joy 200 Inspiring Prayers for a Woman's Heart by Donna K.Maltese

Praying your Way to Joy 200 Inspiring Prayers for a Woman's Heart by Donna K.Maltese is a book soon released by Barbour. It is about all that joy given by God and His wise words. Thanks to these prayers every woman can find inspiration for a day plenty of great promises. In periods of uncertainties, when you think that your faith is a bit gone, but also when you are experiencing some diff

iculties or just when you need extra help this book is here, waiting for you with its wise words.

We all need words of encouragement and as I say often God is a great resource for finding inspiration in a daily base and for not get lost.

Beautiful illustrations, delicate, as always another great reading from Barbour. I fall in love for the cover, romantic and tender at the same time.

Highly recommended.

I thank NetGalley for this ebook.

Anna Maria Polidori 

When did the Stature of Liberty Turn Green? 101 Other Questions About New York City written by the Staff of the New-York Society Library

It's a beautiful and sunny book When did the Stature of Liberty Turn Green?

101 Other Questions About New York City written by the Staff of the New-York Society Library. If you love New York, if you want to discover realitistically the story of New York in a light way, passing through characters, places, people and what and who made the story of NYC, this one will be a great reading. Published by Columbia University Press this book is divided in various sections: Firsts and Origins, History and Politics, Curiosities and Wonders, Buildings, Streets and Neighborhoods, Arts, Leisures and Diversities. New York: known for his Christmas, and his Christmas's Trees, the first one vendors started their commerce of Christmas's Trees in the city was on 1851. The first book printed thanks to William Bradford in 1685. Although the New York Times is famous internationally, there is to add that the New York Post was the first newsmagazine released in New York, and it was at the end of 1800s, beginning of 1900s that some locals started to being identified as gay-ones.

You will learn that the New York Historical Society was founded by John Pintard, who had previously also founded the Massachusetts Historical Society. At the moment the Historical Society continues to play an important role in the cultural and educational life of the city. You will learn when slavery was suppressed in New York City and an important voice will involve also the so-called "orphan trains" trains of orphans fostered by families in the mid-west or in the west of the USA. 

A club the Harmonie one was founded by a German Jews attracting all that people refused by the exclusive clubs of New York City.

The Club was opened to everyone, not just Jewish people of course. With the time some polemics. Bloomberg resigned from this club and other three ones because he thought that there wasn't too much diversity and Barack Obama gave up from hosting a fund-raising because there are still no blacks in the club. The Harmonie accepts all people and at the moment blacks often visit the club as members's guest.

It was a terrible winter-time that year in NYC.1888, Roscoe Conkling, a senator of 59, successful, great life, plenty of health had had a life still to be living at the fullest. A heavy snow was descending from the sky. When he left his office and took a taxi, considering the 50 dollars that the man pretended, Roscoe preferred to giving up, starting to walk. His end was terribly sad.

Madame C.J. Walker was famous because she was the first millionaire woman. She sold all her life products for improving the quality of hair and fought against discriminations.

John Purroy Mitchel was the youngest mayor of NYC, but his history dramatically sad.

Although Sept 11 2001 that let us see with terror what it meant the impact of two airplanes in two skycrapes, you will read that NYC's problems with airplanes and buildings "existed" also in the past.

The story of mail deliveries in NYC is tremendously interesting but also the story of the research of corpes will intrigue you a lot for sure.

Considering that there wasn't any kind of regulation on the matter, it was custom in the past in NYC at opening graves for searching  for corpses necessary for experiment in laboratories or just for research. If at first this activity was done with a certain discretion, later became morbid and obsessive. 

Let's just add that someone, pretty upset caused a lot of mess because of the disappearance of the bodies of his beloved ones from the cemetery. 

The story of premature babies and Coney Island is captivating like also the one of Topsy an elephant who killed several people. For this reason she was killed as well. 

Balto, differently was an heroic dog. He saved thanks to his work, the existence of many people, and so someone thought that it would have been great remembering this dog with a statue, giving to him and the rest of dogs, dignity when alive.

A voice is dedicated at New Year's Eve; how New Yorkers celebrated the festivity and the arrival of the choice of Times Square iconic place attracting every end of the year New Yorkers and tourists from the world.

There is a statue of Edwin Booth in New York; he was the brother of John Wilkes Booth the killer of Abraham Lincoln. Edwin was a great actor, and he played a crucial role for the city.

Many more voices, many more facts, events, people in this book, fresh, quick, but at the same time informative and very well done.

Highly recommended.

I thank Columbia University Press for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Il Tribunale degli Uccelli FugleTribunalet by Agnes Ravatn

Il Tribunale degli Uccelli FugleTribunalet by Agnes Ravatn published

• by Marsilio is a powerful book for sure, because will act psychologically and at different levels on the readers. If you have a certain imagination you will notice it. Plus this tale will also put in evidence the profound and distorted relationship of a sick person in confrontation with women.

While I was reading this book I thought that I would have run away as soon as possible from a guy like Sigurd Bagge being extremely talkative; that man was so closed that you had to pay attention at what you said him and the way you said that, words you used for expressing your thoughts couldn't be wrong and so on. Just this a real nightmare!

The story: Allis is an important TV presenter, but she cheated her husband with someone more powerful. People discovered in a pretty devastating way their relationship. She escaped away; without husband, technically Allis is still married of course but... without lover; without anyone.

Without anymore a good reputation and she is jobless, of course. One day he reads that someone needs a housemaid for cooking, keeping clean the garden, the house. Allis thinks that maybe, leaving the city, leaving her old life will be just reason for bettering her emotional situation.

Sure: that house is isolated, that man, all alone in the house a sort of bear. A 40s year old bear, absolutely attractive but at the same time with something wrong in his heart; he doesn't love to communicate at all; he doesn't love to interact with Allis.

Allis tries her best. She doesn't know gardening but slowly she improves; she discovers a notebook with a lot of recipes in the kitchen and she will cook always great meals.

The man is married but the lady is strangely disappeared somewhere. Allis is curious to understand where Bagge's wife disapperead developing at the same time a sort of jealousy for this mysterious lady. A lady, surely with a lot of qualities. A musician.

She imagines her tiny, slim body; her class and grace.

What Allis doesn't know is the profound attachment of Bagge for wine and liquors in general. Allis, there is to add, will be of great company in this sense.

I consider Bagge a bipolar person; someone absolutely not in grade of understanding the dynamics of life; the dynamics not just of unhappiness, but the ones of happiness as well. Bagge would want an exclusive, quiet total control on the other person, something that no one should have. Not in this sick way.

The rural life is beautiful and the imagine portraid by Allis, a life spent with him 'till the end (maybe in a too isolated way also if the relationship an healthy one) absolutely rational: the problem is that when there are people like Bagge around, you can't never know what they think and when they can break also the most beautiful moment of happiness.

I thought: why a man became a complication for others so big? Was it because of his childhood? Because of a unhappy past?

The result of the actions of Bagge can't be circumscribed "in the now," but in a past of desolation, in a past where no one took great care for this ex kid; or just, it is part of his human nature, his abuse of alcohol, a constant unhappiness, a constant being unsecure of himself and the other ones; his inability of giving trust to anyone, and his inability of believing in what others are saying him with open hearts and sincerity.

It's the normality that becomes abnormality that in this book will shock you the most. Coping with a guy like Bagge also not in this scenario is never simple.

I love this books also because the narration is precise, punctual, vivid,  dreaming, scaringly true.

The title of the book is referred at a Bagge's dream where he is judged by a tribunal of birds.

Not only: the book will also reveal the entire story of Baldr, killed thanks to the help of a beautiful Christmas's apparently, innocuous plant: the mistletoe. It's beautiful, I treated it in another review and I leave you the joy of a complete explanation of this myth, following Allis's words.

Highly recommended.

I thank Marsilio Editori for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori 

Il Piccolo Virgil by Ole Lund Kirkegaard

Il Piccolo Virgil by Ole Lund

Kirkegaard is a wonderful sunny and funny children's book published by Iperborea.

Ole Lund is one of the most beloved Danish writer of children literature.

Virgil lives in a hen house and as companion a rooster only with a leg. Virgil is happy to living there; he doesn't have other places where to go. He goes to school and he has two other friends: Oskar, an avid reader, and Carl Emil a pretty rich kid.

Adventures that these three buddies will live are the most diversified ones. In an adventure they will try to find a good spouse for a stork. They end up thinking that the goose of a strong, fat lady living close to them can be a great solution. In the night they steal the goose but immediately after in the morning the lady notices her goose close to the house of the owner of the local grocery store. The lady pretty upset promises to that man of not buying anymore anything in his store, thinking that the goose stolen by him.

An episode I found hilarious and fascinating the one of the birthday of Carl Emil. Invited by him, Virgil and Oskar will bring him two special gifts. Oskar presented him a toad, Virgil a box with an invisible gift. At the same time in this episode as you will read will happen this world and the other and for Carl Emil's parents the experience is more than stressing.

At the same time the celebration of birthday is lived by these two children as a great novelty, because in the case of Virgil I guess he didn't know when and where he was born; in the case of Oskar, maybe her mother didn't remember. A lot of time ago it happened. 

Another episode will involve a vagabond who must return in a special town called Giappia where people are constantly happy; they eat  rays of the sun, they are constantly happy and joy, joy, joy in Giappia is always warm!!! 

In every chapter you will discover imagination in motion, a lot of fun, and sometimes these children will become troublemakers listening what adults are saying or suggesting. Trying to better some situation they will create more chaos. Always appearing innocents.

I really enjoyed reading the adventures of Virgil and his friends. It's a great and funny reading that I am sure will be appreciated by everyone.

I thank Iperborea for the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori  

Pearce Trenary remembers his dad

He was killed a year ago on Sept. 27th while walking  on the street in downtown Memphis after an event organized by his chamber. He was in the wrong place at the wrong moment.

Phil Trenary was synonime of Memphis. He donated to his adoptive city, a city that hugged him and loved him a lot, all the best he could give at. 

CEO at first of the Pinnacle Airlines, at the moment of his death was the CEO of the Great Chamber of Commerce. 

The main passion of Phil Trenary were airplanes; a passion that meant work as well and a passion transmitted also to his son Pearce who, in an interview at a TV station of Memphis remembered his dad and his profound connection with him. Phil Trenary has always been a father close to his children. Pearce remembers that he received two calls from him everyday;  he loved all his family tenderly and was close to all of them.

Another big love of Phil Trenary was his adoptive city, Memphis: the legacy left by his dad, Pearce says is strong in this sense. Phil Trenary had clear ideas about Memphis.

It was indispensible to "Make the city the best that can be" a legacy that the family Trenary want to perpetuate. Memphis won't remain without them now that Phil is disappeared in such a devastating way. But Pearce is also firm: "Memphis is my dad, aviation was my dad, not what happened." 

Pearce adds also that the place where he finds the most profound connection with his father is the airport: "We became buddies here."

Anna Maria Polidori 

KETO La Dieta per bruciare i grassi, resettare il metabolismo, potenziare il cervello, e ridurre il rischio di malattie by Dr. Josh Axe

KETO La Dieta per bruciare

i grassi, resettare il metabolismo, potenziare il cervello, e ridurre il rischio di malattie by Dr. Josh Axe, from Nashville, Tennessee, is a book by Marsilio Editori that wants to speak an old message to the newest generations: it's important to try to follow what the oldest generations ate for living a best life.

But, let's start from the beginning. What the Keto diet wants to do? 

First of all the promise is that abolishing carbohydrates, just 30 grams per day and introducing good fats, body will be forced to use the material "put aside" previously; the fat accumulated. In this way you will start to losing weight.

I tell that I love this diet so badly because it's fresh, plenty of beverages and water (I think more than 2 liters of water everyday) and I use some of the ingredients described by Axe.

Today for example for dinner I decided for a broth, one of the most important components of the Keo Diet. Keeping alive as long as possible our collagen is important and using broth prepared with parts of domestic animals, rich of collagen will help us to preserve it as well.

Sure the list of food you will need to avoid are many starting with every kind of sugar, cereals, bread, industrial products (thumb up), coke, milk and fresh cheese.

I see you all scared: possible? What should we eat? Organical food, the best one: the author expresses the desire that people shouldn't never look at industrial food for losing weight, because buying that food would mean to reduce the curative power of this diet. You won't just lose weight, you will build also another identity, with more freshness, with more freedom, more lightness.

Organic foods admitted are great: from lattuce to coconut milk; for preparing your dishes with flour, you will use the almond one, sugar will become stevia in your dictionary and your...cupboard. Veggies of every sorta will be deliciously present on your table. Powder proteins will become collagen proteins. Spaghetti-zucchini will become the answer to pasta. Beverages involves green tea, tea in general coffeeine, broth. 

You won't lose just fat with this diet, but you will avoid a lot of important illness.

Mr. Axe wrote this book also taking in consideration the great amount of obese Americans. The South of the US, with their robust and delicious food doesn't help at all.

A fat person is more lazy and can develops various problems with the time. Keeping under control weight is crucial.

To my point of view this one can become a life-style. Just I think that this diet is potentially expensive, and not everyone can buy always organically.

For the rest, this one is a wonderful book and an exciting diet for all that people in love for veggies and natural food; highly recommended to everyone.

I love so badly the second part dedicated to delicious recipes. Truly inspiring!

I thank Marsilio Editori fot the physical copy of this book.

Anna Maria Polidori