I admire you all, you are a great group, always ready for new challenges. Unfortunately, I can not follow you all as much as I wish. I have been away for almost 2 weeks and things have been so fast here that it's impossible
Here is a song I love, I wanted to sing it but as here in Turkey I can not open youtube, i didn't find a karaoke version. So, here is the song anyway, i am happy to share it with you and i hope you will enjoy it. Leonard Cohen sung i
A few days ago i came accross this book that I found really interesting. It teaches us how, in our daily life, emotional intelligence is as important as the intelligence that we count by IQ. According to this book, we can stimulate and developp it f
Andrea Buslfield a british journalist a lived for several years in Afghanistan, an experience that helped her write the novel Born Under A Million Shadows.
The novel tells the story of modern life in Afghanistan, through the eyes of a young boy named
Everybody would think that, Yasmina Khadra is a man, but what a surprise when i saw that, that, behind that pseudonym hides a man who once was an army officer in Algeria. I believe he lives now in France.From what i read somewhere on the net, Khadra
Hello book lovers,This is the last book i read and i really liked it a lot. This women's thoughts are so close to mine. In her book i found myself so many times.After reading the book, I went to see the movie but I found it too long and too "slow". S
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The kite runner, tells the story of a young boy named Amir who grows up in a financially aristocratic subculture of Afghanistan prior to the Russian invasion, eventually escapes with his father to California via Pakistan, and ultimately returns to th
To my opinion, a magnificent book, a melancholy story about the difficult life of 2 Afghani women, Mariam and Laila.Mariam's life revolves around her father's visits. While she lives in a hut with her mother, it's the weekly visits from her father th
This book is very innovative and quite controversial.At first it can shock us because Daphne Rose breaks the myth of "how love is supposed to be". This book challenges what most of us believe in, social norms and expectations that seem to put things
Hello to all picture lovers,Here is a new challenge for all of us :))Joseph Essberger has organized a picture contest :"the Photo Contest 2010". The winner will be annouced on June 30.Meanwhile, get your camera and suprise us :)) The more we will hav
Hello all,I have downloaded many pictures on my profile and i receive quite a lot of comments about them. Of course, it please me a lot, but i have a question that keeps coming back to my mind.Which qualities does a photo needs to please people ? Wha
Dear friends,Sorry for being away such a long time. I wasn't able to follow this group for more than 2 months now, but i hope i am going to have more time to be active here again.My friend Salim proposed an very fun challenge and you might be interes
It would be nice if you could download here one of the pictures you like the most. What will be interesting here, beside looking at the pictures you sent, is to know why it is one of your favorite . It can be a picture you found on internet but i wou
I never really thought about this topic, but when i came accross this article, i was amazed and i wish to share it here to know your opinion. I am not a vegetarian, but i rarely eat meet, now, at least i know i have a good reason not to abuse, either
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Hello friends,My bookshelf look pretty much like the ones on this picture and as a real books lover, i have great difficulty to get rid of all the books i have read. So for many years, i have kept them all over the house, now, it's so full (thousands
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A middle-aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her ad
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