Be Good to Yourself

Today I discovered a new book and I put it my list for reading it soon: 

Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements

While I searched the net to order it, I discovered the agreements, which are mostly common sense teachings. I will enumerate here briefly, because I found them really interesting to know and use.

1. Be impeccable with your word.

2. Don't take anything personally.

3. Don't make assumptions.

4. Always do your best.

More about that, after I'll finish the book.

While in Madrid, a month ago, I was happy to see those girls in a cafeteria's window, laughing and saying hello to everybody. They were French, and I still hear them laughing. 

I'd like to say hello to you in the same way: happy and funny and uninhibited. 

Be good to yourself, at least for today!

My Bedside Table

As I said from last week, here is my bedside table, I will try to share every Sunday the latest titles I read. I'd really like to know what you are reading now, please share! 

This week I have a chick lit book, "Mini Shopaholic" of Sophie Kinsella, a very weak reading. Is not worthing more than 2 hours, so I finished it very fast. 

The first one, "Confessions of a Shopaholic", is better and I did not read the rest of the books of the Shopaholic's series. But this one is deffinitelly the last one I buy from this author.

As an interesting and funny story, the author was already a very successful writer before the "Shopaholic" series, on her real name: Madeleine Wickham. She submitted the first novel from this new series anonymously, and she was rejected from her existing editors, without knowing that she already was one of their authors. 

The other one is a different story, "The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories" by Gianni Rodarte. This is an Italian classic and the book is a marvelous exploration of the worlds of creativity and imagination. The author's profound understanding of the child's unspoiled imagination brings us some interesting reflections on the art of inventing stories. I really enjoy reading it, but is taking a long time, because I need to think a lot of what I read.

What else in on my bedside table? Another old Elle magazine, French edition, Elmipland hand cream, Elmiplant heels cream... 

For Book's Love

Not too many words today... Mondays evening we are terribly tired, we wish only to go sleeping. The kids were kind of nervous, Runa especially, she took a bad grade in a math competition and she was very emotional. It didn't help Radu and Mara to be calm...

We encourage them to love books as we do, since we know each other and especially in the last few years we had always something to do with the print industry, as is calling us both :).

Radu and Mara here, on a Sunday morning, each of them "reading" his favourite book. Mara is actually reading, and she is not even 5 YO. Yesterday she was sitting in a front of an announcement trying to find out the words' meaning. We love when they do that, it makes us feel that we didn't try for nothing.