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  For english, please scroll down. :)  «Γκέρτρουντ Μπέλ – Μια γυναίκα στην Αραβία» της Τζορτζίνα Χάουελ Α) Η Υπόθεση του βιβλίου: Το συγκεκριμένο βιβλίο πραγματεύεται τη ζωή μιας Βρετανίδας, της Γκέρτρουντ Μπελ, που έζησε από το 1868 ως το 1926. Πρόκειται για ένα πολύ όμορφο κι ενδιαφέρον βιογραφικό μυθιστόρημα. Η Γκέρτρουντ υπήρξε γόνος εύπορης αριστοκρατικής οικογένειας της Μεγάλης Βρετανίας. Είχε ζωηρή, δραστήρια και φιλομαθή προσωπικότητα. Σε πολύ νέα ηλικία επισκέφτηκε για πρώτη φορά την Εγγύς Ανατολή και γοητεύτηκε πολύ από αυτή. Μετά από κάποια χρόνια με τα οποία ασχολήθηκε εντατικά με την ορειβασία σε ευρωπαϊκά βουνά, επίκεντρο της ζωής και των δραστηριοτήτων της έγιναν οι περιοχές του αραβικού κόσμου. Περνώντας μεγάλα διαστήματα της ενήλικης ζωής της στις αραβικές χώρες, ένα από τα αρχικά ενδιαφέροντά της εκεί υπήρξαν οι αρχαιολογικές έρευνες και η συγγραφή βιβλίων σχετικών με αυτές. Μάλιστα οι πολυδάπανες αρχαιολογικές αποστολές της χρηματοδοτούταν από την ίδια. Φαίν

For english, please, scroll down. :)  Α) Η Υπόθεση του βιβλίου:     Το βιβλίο «Από τη σκέψη ως την οικοδόμηση» γράφτηκε από τον πολυπράγμονα και υπερδραστήριο Πορτογάλο συγγραφέα και καθηγητή της αρχιτεκτονικής σχολής στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Πόρτου, στην Πορτογαλία, Νούνου Λασέρντα Λόπες.     Μέσα στις σελίδες του βιβλίου ο συγγραφέας ξεδιπλώνει τις σκέψεις και τα συναισθήματά του προς ποικίλες εκφάνσεις της αρχιτεκτονικής δημιουργίας. Παντού φαίνονται διάχυτες η αγάπη και η συγκίνηση του αρχιτέκτονα για κάθε κλίμακας σχεδιασμό. Πρόκειται για ένα σχεδιασμό που ασφαλώς δεν αναφέρεται μόνο σε κτήρια αλλά και σε έπιπλα, σε θεατρικά σκηνικά, σε πόλεις, ακόμη και σε κοσμήματα ή σε κόμικς.     Διαβάζοντας το βιβλίο ο αναγνώστης συνειδητοποιεί πόσο αλληλένδετες είναι μεταξύ τους οι ποικίλες εκφάνσεις της σύγχρονης και ποιοτικής ανθρώπινης δημιουργικότητας. Έτσι κάποιος που ασχολείται με το θέατρο, μπορεί να βρεθεί συνειδητά ή ασυνείδητα να εμπλέκεται με την αρχιτεκτονική, με τα μαθηματικά

A) The summary of the book: A very disappointed with her life, a girl, around 30, makes her daily train journey from a suburb to the center of London, pretending every day to her flatmate that she is still working. On her itineraries, at a station where the train always stops for longer, she watches daily a beautiful couple on its balcony, which seems to be ideal. When one day the train girl reads in the news that the girl on the balcony has disappeared, she feels that she can help solve the mystery and so she moves in that direction, finally discovering that the crime that took place is unexpectedly related to her own life of her recent past. B) The advantages of the book: "The Girl on the Train" is a psychological thriller, which may not be considered a masterpiece of world literature but I enjoyed it. It is ideal for carefree company and entertainment without worries during the reader's free time. It is read quickly and easily. It has a very interesting and unexpect

Last month I finished reading a strange book about my tastes, which was about plants. My need to read something about plants for the first time started from the care and observation of two plants that were offered to me as gifts in the last year and a half. The choice of the book by me was random.  I had never heard of this before. However, a relevant documentary from 1979, based on the music of Stevie Wonder, was based on this book. A) The premise of the book: The book summarizes the views of some people on how plants feel in the world, based on the experiments of various researchers, which are described. The book also refers to ecological agriculture. B) The advantages of the book: The truth is that I am not an expert on plants, so I can not judge this book with confidence. I may be wrong but only a few things have satisfied me in this book. Some views on how plants feel the world were interesting, although I felt they were closer to the level of metaphysics than physics. C)

Yesterday I finished reading another literary book by a Nobel Prize-winning author and in particular Olga Tokarczuk from Poland, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. I could say that this book traveled me pleasantly in older times in northeast Europe, even though many of those times were really bloody periods of Europea n history. The adverb “pleasantly” I used above is due to Olga Tokartsuk's linguistic ability to describe times and events in a calm lyric way. This lyricism softens the description of even the saddest times. So, the theme of this book, is following the story of a Polish village called "Primeval" during the period from the beginning of World War I to the end of the 20th century. This observation takes place through the telling of small stories, characteristic of each of the characters who become the protagonists of the book, who are not other than the inhabitants of the Primeval. The main figures of the literary work, around which the narrative rev

This book was written by the Austrian writer recently honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature 2019. It consists of 17 small chapters, in each of which Handke describes in detail something that drew his attention during each of his travels to various countries. A) Its Benefits: First of all it is a book with originality in writing, value that is probably required to win the Nobel Prize. The author is inspired by some utterly insignificant image for the average traveler, observer, reader or writer and focuses on such a detailed description of it that makes it the center of the world. This may be the image of a man in Patras begging his parrot to return to his cage, the trunks of an honey tree in the center of the Munich, a fireball in a man's hand, or a butterfly's flying. Clearly, the author's speech is particularly artful and noteworthy for critics of literature and readers deeply indebted to it. B) Its Disadvantages: I don't know if it could really be described

"Bandawi"  was written by Syrian oil chemist and internationally renowned businessman Mohed Altrad and has autobiographical details. I read it with pleasure and I found it very moving. It describes the struggle of a little Bedouin from the Syrian desert, who lost his mother early and never accepted the love of his grandmother, father and other relatives, to come out victorious in life. From his early childhood he realized that the only way to succeed was school. Despite the lack of understanding and the disagreements of his relative, who were targeting him as a shepherd, the young Bedouin went to the local elementary school and later to a high school in Raka, where he took the final exams and thus obtained a scholarship to study Oil Chemistry in France… So school and hard work helped the little Bedouin rise socially. His militancy and willingness to win were wonderful and worthy of an example of admiration and imitation. But the whole novel is not just about describing the sc