Girl, Wash Your Face

Here is a book that shows how we can destroy easily all the lies being told through centuries about us and also guiding us to face the world with self-confidence.

It's all about what I can be doing better and what I'm not doing well enough; how to be better at work, parenting, and writing. How to be less bad at cardio, sex, and you know, how to change the world.

“There are dark implications in making everything a matter of personal responsibility” it's Hollis's bias, asking us to interrogate and deconstruct the lies that we've believed about ourselves. But the book critics Laura Turner still wonder “how that lens would function if we turn it on the lies the Hollis promulgates in Girl, Wash Your Face.”

Hollis’s core philosophy itself is emblematic of a huge division in American thought that dominates our national discourse: Are people who have problems responsible for fixing them themselves? Or is there some collective responsibility that we are shirking — does a society owes something to all its members?" Laura Turner noted.

You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for who you become and how happy you are, says Rachel Hollis's on her Lifestyle book.

Enrich your knowledge by Hollis's recognition, make your life a better place to live in and yourself a better human to be with.

The Sagas of Icelanders

Popular holiday gifts come and go yearly in a variety according to countries, foundations or personal relationships. But the best Christmas presents for decades are still given in Iceland.

The Perception of Christmas as a Holiday is deeply rooted in Icelandic culture with books being given as presents on the night of the 24th and people spend the night reading.

What a brilliant idea to share knowledge and wisdom with our fellow human, as the saying goes, "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; Learn a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime".

Iceland has a long literary history dating to medieval times. Landmarks of world literature, including The Sagas of the Icelanders and the Poetic Edda, are still widely read and translated there, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

Worthy to mention in this point that Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world, with five titles published for every 1,000 Icelanders.

Friday's Book Suggestion this week will honor the splendor of Icelandic literature, The Sagas of Icelanders, also known as the family sagas. The best stories to read in front of a fireplace or sited in our favorite armchair with a glass of wine. Simple as that, we get into the Holidays Spirit and our heart warms up with love and knowledge.

A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare.

Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured further west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself.

Thirteen Reasons Why!

Nourishing our minds with courage and planning wisely the future was the goal of last week. Getting to know how some people deal with difficult experiences that resemble our daily lives is how we are going to have fun next week.

This Friday we will turn our attention on reading the #1 New York Times bestseller novel and modern classic that has been changing lives for decades. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is a suicide book which has been rated from the readers for more than 715,000 times.

“When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything . . . affects everything.” - Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why, is a well-written book, with a multi-discussed plot, mainly for the reasons why Hannah Baker kills herself. Some horrible things that happened in high school made Hannah go off and commit suicide, kinds of situations that happen to everyone.

Few words about the book

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.

Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.