Shosha: A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer



My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The main characters are the playwright Tsutsie, a Jewish guy who had decided to be quite different from his conventional Jewish family, and Shosha, his best friend who is a midget Jewish youngster. Shosha is romantically the title of the book as the cover of everything for him, some sort of a co-author of his own life together with Isaac Bashevis Singer. Shosha is like a short name to Shoshana, a female name that is lasting since such biblical times, stands for both Jewish and Christian womankind.

that's a romantic novel where the love is also a strong protagonist while the war coming, an antagonist. The love had brought the enlightment over each one of the characters, the plot turns around artistic or intellectual people. May the art be the one to give the last breathe before the war! The art has always an intrinsec reason to exist.

Shosha's friend had earned this Yiddish nickname Tsutsie from his intellectual chaps. A tireless writer pushed to become a playwright as well. One of Tsutsie's most impressive work is the serie printed weekly on the newspaper about known fake Messiahs from the last century as the case of Sh. Tsvi.

Behind the love affection, starvation and epidemic disease ghosts were dancing around the live Polish Jewish people, who by the other hand, were either feeling so much alive. Everything is vanishing behind the white winter, the snow covers the tiniest bush and tall trees as well. The cold streams had congealed the river water and entered also through the human hearts.

Shosha is a well-written book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, a Jewish writer, a Nobel prize winner and it's a worthy reading.



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High-Society Mistress by Katherine Garbera



My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A charming novel in which the reader is led by the unique high-society female to the kernel of the plot, Tempest Lambert. She's the owner of Tempest's Closets, yet who rules this retail business is his father. Her mother had died too soon to raise her, and the father is a distant cool figure all interested in running the business.

Gavin Reinard is a buyer of broken plants, and how much he wants to buy the Tempest's Closets imperium until he may get contact with the beautiful Tempest.

It's a sweet romance in which the heroin is under two men devoted to work, and she all by herself has to do the same trying to answer her most inner questions about what will be life now that she's older and tired of being the scandal spotlight of the high-society.



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“Give the other face!” is a saying meaning only to become an adept of a religion. Despite of the common expression “in one's face” which is used to point directly and aggressively in someone's presence something about a previous misbehaviour. “Give the other face” is a sentence attributed to a religious mystic figure a so long time ago, now and then some demagogues use to take advantage of this teaching as a slogan aiming almost anything, nonetheless this saying is not about suffering, instead of it, it's about finding, is not just about finding a disguise, otherwise a space to reflection.

The white horse was born from the moon, when the full moon wanted to stay in the sky a little longer.

What have we come to do on Earth planet? To live, to inhabitate, if one doesn't have  to either if this someone doesn't bother with a good dwelling place, he will be far away from his natural preservation instincts.