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The solitary ones, Ada Negri, 1917     There are many things I would like to write about “The solitary ones.” Too many, perhaps. There is a piece of me in...

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, 2000   I have always drawn a lot for as long as I can remember. Everyone in my family told me that I had inherited the "drawing...

64 M. Yourcenar Marguerite, Memoirs of Hadrian, 1951   I use this book on Hadrian's life told through his letters as a pretext to present a memoir. In all the stages...

H. Arendt, A report of the Banality of Evil, 1963 The message of the book is "evil is nothing special," the "bad guys" don't feel evil, and there is a subtle...

The children’s train, Viola Ardone, 2019   For me, seeing a child on the cover of a book or reading some reference to childhood in the title represents a sufficient...

Woman, Race & Class, Angela Y. Davis, 1981 “Ah, sorry,” a friend said to me. “so, in the hierarchy of importance, who comes before white men, Blacks, or women?” It was...