There have been several titles that experts have named as “best selling books in history” as The Bible either Don Quijote of La Manchahowever, the book has been created for several centuries and there were not always ways to measure which were the most popular works –like now amazon does– coupled with the level of … Read more
“One of the greatest teachers of prayer and spirituality of all time. He was truly like the seed of the Gospel; a seed that, despite the aridity of the desert, helped to make a tired and habitual Christianity flourish”: thus Father Leonardo Sapienza, priest and regent of the Papal Household, speaks of Charles de Foucauld … Read more
Two books. A path. A life. Giuseppina Prostamo, a retired school principal, presented her last two works A Figghja i l’Orfaneju “and” The Scent of Memories “in the conference room of Palazzo Marzano di Briatico, in the presence of the public on special occasions. Two books that fully enter the history of Calabrian literature. With … Read more
Books are a strong opponent for streaming platforms, because like Netflix, HBO and Disney, these stories are capable of captivating those who consume them. He has been aware of this amazonplatform that has opted for the sale of these. And the thing is that despite having emerged centuries ago, the book has undergone a series … Read more
“The fact of not being able to be a journalist made me be a writer,” recalled Isabel Allende (Lima, 1942) on January 24, on the occasion of the launch of her new novel, Violet (Plaza & Janés), in a press conference for more than two hundred journalists. Chilean by adoption, had to go into exile … Read more
A red thread between high-level authors and the population, an opportunity to provide good tools and try to understand something more in the world that is slowly emerging from the pandemic but struggling with other continuous and at times tragic upheavals. All this is contained in “Monterosso: a sea of books” which reaches its sixth … Read more
There is no horse on the road to Damascus, by Florence Delay The writer evokes these altarpieces painted with a cat’s mustache or a woodcock’s feather… Her book is a marvelous canticle of creatures. The first thread she draws questions the conversion of Saul of Tarsus on the road to Damascus. Traditional imagery and paintings … Read more
After the age of 30, those who read in Ecuador begin to adopt a taste for religious-themed publications. This has been revealed by the recent Survey of Reading Habits and Cultural Consumption. 34 out of 100 people between the 30 and 64 years they prefer reading religious books. This number almost doubles (61 people) among … Read more
They are called: Simply happiness ; Don’t wait for the weekend to be happy ; The art of aging well . Anselm Grün’s books are well in tune with the times, as confirmed by Lionel Paul, who works at the Siloë-Lis bookstore in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique): “It’s the kind of books that we have both in … Read more
IT TAKES LITTLE TO BE HAPPY Many of us feel dissatisfied. Yet, the Benedictine monk Anselm Grün reminds us in this simple book, don’t we have, on reflection, a thousand and one reasons to be grateful? Drawing from intellectual disciplines – poetry, theology, philosophy, psychology… – and everyday cases, he shows us the way to … Read more