Breasts and Eggs is about all women, struggling with body image, sexuality, bodily integrity, marriage and parenthood. As a woman in my 30s I could relate on several topics the author had addressed. The narrator is Natsuko, an asexual writer in her 30s based in Tokyo who feels the need…

M Train Patti Smith’s writing style is very imaginative, as she takes you through her notes on her many travels across different countries; looking for art, cafés and visiting solitary graves, while she’s collecting memories and making recommendations from authors you must read and crime shows she enjoys watching. MTrain is the…

by Patti Smith — I cannot figure out how can Patti Smith write about anything without actually talking about anything. This book is similar to M Trian, a collection of pages from her travel journal, including her photos, with the difference that she also makes us participants in her dreams — The Year of the Monkey is a solitary journey, a dreamlike journey, much more melancholic and depressing, the author is embarking on: she writes poetically about the losses she suffers in her private, losses that plague her country, but still Patti as an optimist human being, keeps cheering herself up by thinking that something wonderful is about to happen, maybe tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow.

A restful sleep benefits body and mind, but there are many factors that trigger insomnia, such as anxiety, bad sleeping habits, temperature, and so on. All is well exposed in Why We Sleep divided into sixteen chapters; the author Matthew Walker’s in-depth documentation of sleeping influence over our health, also…

by Patti Smith — The New Jerusalem is prophecy, written and published during the Trump presidency when anger and self doubts are all around media, Smith use per calm voice to soothe the general discontent in a short prose poem, with the addiction of pictures, a Smith’s touch, as well known in her other…

This is nothing I would usually read, especially if you approach this novel as a romantic story between a ‘suicidal’ young woman struggling to find the meaning of her own existence, trying to build her persona fully influenced by a philosophy professor who in my opinion is genuinely hardly credible…

The word Stoicism comes from the Greek stoà poikìle, named after a painted porch in Athens around 300 BC where Stoic philosophers would eventually meet. …

by Virginia Woolf — Virginia Woolf debut novel The Voyage Out, published in 1915, is a less introspective work and follows a more linear storyline, unlike her best known stream-of-consciousness writings. The omniscient narrator is centered around a group of characters, despite the plot revolves around Rachel Vinrace, a young, naive girl who embarks…

by Rainer Maria Rilke Aren’t any Rilke’s letters quotable material? Because I’ve found his words powerful and full of insights; Rilke is brilliant and humble into his responses to Kappus: unfortunately we can’t exactly know what Kappus wrote to him, but through Rilke’s explanatory answers we can still find a common thread between one letter and another. There is a lot of ideas and advice for those who want to start writing or love art, life and everything that represents it in this little book.