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HAPPINESS

Mar 29, 2025 | BOOKS

Happiness is the title of the latest reading I owe Monica. What is happiness for you? The answer to this question is always very subjective. What if happiness was a widespread state of mind that involved everyone? The author of the book: Will Ferguson outlines his hypothesis of what would happen...

BEAVERS

Mar 24, 2025 | ENVIRONMENT, WORLD

Beavers live where there is enough water to dive, they build the entrance to their burrows underwater for greater safety, then if the water level is not sufficient, they build a dam. We learnt the ‘beaver - dam’ association of thought from an early age, do you remember any cartoons in particular?...

ECHOES FROM THE UNKNOWN

Mar 16, 2025 | BOOKS

Echoes from the Unknown is the book I received as part of the Mari's Manual online book fair. I would like to thank the author: Cristiano Venturelli for the courtesy. The anthology Echoes from the Unknown is his third publishing work. What is the unknown? Cristiano asks this question, emphasising...

SHOUT SONGS

Mar 9, 2025 | MUSIC, ROCK

Basically, the definition of shout songs refers to the Gospel genre: a strongly rhythmic religious song in the African-American folk tradition, characterised by chants or shouts of response between the leader and the congregation. Shouts of invocation, we can say of a joyful kind. However, when I...

GENTRIFICATION OR SUPERMARKETIFICATION?

Mar 1, 2025 | WHO CARES

Gentrification we know by now, is the term coined to define urban redevelopment that involves a change in the original social fabric. The small country gentry, in today's times we could extend the concept to those who fit the description of middle class? Rich? Fortunate? In short, ‘gentrified’...

ACCABADORA

Feb 22, 2025 | BOOKS

Accabadora is a book that needs no introduction: everyone knows it. However, I only read it now, thanks to ‘Monica books.’ I open it and find the dedication: To my motherBoth of them I immediately send a message to Monica telling her that I did not know Michela Murgia had been adopted. She...

THOMAS O’MALLEY AND DUCHESS IN VIGEVANO

Feb 16, 2025 | WHO CARES, WHO CARES

From 14 to 16 February, Vigevano welcomes lovers who want to spend romantic moments in our Piazza Ducale, and everywhere in general. Vigevano in love. I particularly appreciate two things of this event : - one of the slogans that invites the people of Vigevano to fall in love with their city,...

FARAWAY

Feb 8, 2025 | BOOKS, BOOKS

I would like to thank Jessica Pini and Mari's Manual for Faraway. Faraway. We often repeat that reading takes us far away, in this case, the journey already starts with the title. You know I never anticipate what one will discover when reading, so I ask you: what does your ‘far away’ correspond...