bookshelf

I have always loved to read. I use to think that it would be necessary to have the time to read. Later I have learned, or I was told, that if you love to read you will find time for it. Now I read a lot. The trouble is that when I start I would never stop, risking to make it late at night. 

I read novels, parenting or childcare books, I recently read a book for teenagers (and I found something for myself in it!); I read articles from newspapers, I search, find and read from the internet, I even tried with some e-books...and last but not least I read, re-read hundred of times fairytales....

Here you will find the books that left something behind, may be you are curious to try.

Gonzáles, C., Bésame Mucho. Come crescere i tuoi figli con amore,
Coleman editore, Catania 2009

This is the first, Besame Mucho; I read this book over and over agin, I gave it to friends as a gift, I suggested it to other friends. It is very easy to read and amusing. This is the book that brought me to the mother I am trying to be. The one that uses care and love, avoids punishments preferring empathy and communication: the kind who makes people staring at her astonished.  I am proud to be that mom.
After this book I really understood that children have to be respected as persons, they have needs and desires as we do, with the same value, but for them is much more difficult to express that.
I suggest this book to everybody!

Cucchiarato, C., Vivo Altrove. Giovani e senza radici gli emigranti italiani di oggi, Bruno Mondadori, maggio 2010

Vivo Altrove. (Tran: I Live Somewhere Else. Young and without routs Italian Emigrants of today).
This is a book that talks, among others, about my story. Leaving to live abroad is a more and more common experience for Italian young people of any kind of education. They are looking for better working conditions, they follow a love story, or they are simple tired and curious about what happens outside the country of "la dolce vita". Whatever is the reason only a few comes back. The author, Claudi Cucchiarato, also an emigrant, lives in Spain and she come up here in the NL to interview me for the chapter about working as architect in the Netherlands.