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“UNTITLED NOVEL FOR WOMEN ONLY”

NO, IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN TO ME.

No, no, it could never happen to me.

I could never forget. This is not an option. At least this is what I kept saying to myself all the way to school. At the end of the day I’m a very well organized young lady in her mid 30-ties with a child and a hubby, or rather ex-hubby to be precise.

Today is Friday and I managed to forget that my son was supposed to go on a school trip. I usually put everything as important as school trips down in my kitchen calendar.

His school trips are important to me at least as much as they are important to him.

When the little one is gone for the whole day I can finally catch up on gossip magazines & E-news combined with furious writing. Ok, a little bit of writing and not that furious.

So to cut long story short we arrived about 45 minutes too late. Don’t ask me how that happened!

No, I didn’t meet George Clooney and he didn’t madly fall in love with me like he did with Michelle Pfeiffer in “One Fine Day”. Why life cannot imitate movies and why on earth George Clooney doesn’t have children?

Well, there goes my morning with E!

My son didn’t say anything. He just looked at me and started walking towards our favorite coffee shop.

We live in south east London and by now we have pretty much organized our lives around that area. By organizing our lives I mean we know all the good coffee shops, restaurants and markets.

I work as a writer for film & TV and I’m constantly between London & LA. I write all sorts of things. The scary thing is that I can write anything. By anything I mean the horrible stuff and the good stuff. The horrible stuff pays really well. The good stuff helps me get the horrible jobs. Do I feel guilty? No, not anymore. Besides, writing the horrible stuff always makes me a better writer of the good stuff. At least this is what I keep saying to myself, and you know what? The little white lie works every time.

I think my traveling was the major factor of my divorce. My hubby, or rather my ex-hubby just couldn’t keep away from other women. I totally understand, he felt lonely and scared on his own in such a big city like London. This is only understandable.

Oh, well… fuck him, right? I did for a while. Life is too short and full of younger blokes and meaningless one-night stands which I didn’t have since my early twenties and it only happened once, ok, ok, thrice.

Today I’m only slightly older and, hopefully, slightly wiser. But with wisdom you never know. It can disappear as easily as it appears.

So, the little man & me are making our way towards the coffee shop. Since it’s already after 9 am the place is packed. The little O. (This is my son’s name.) notices his dad (The big O.). I should have known that he was going to be there. Yes, my ex spends most of his time in coffee shops, bars and restaurants.

No, he is not an alcoholic, he is not unemployed. He is actually at work. Believe me or not but he runs a very successful eating & drinking out blog. Just to be clear, I helped him out to set up the blog, came up with the name & told him what to write about. Oh, and gave him a few tips how to write an entertaining blog. Do I get any credit for that!!! No, of course not!

Well, we are still friends and sometimes do stuff that normally friends don’t do. Like last night.

- “Daddy. Mom was late again.” says little O. while sitting down next to his daddy.

- “Coffee please.” I ask a waiter when he comes over.

My ex starts laughing while the little one is finishing his toast.

-   “Do you want to hang out with me instead?” he asks the little O.

-   “What about mom?”

-   “Well, she can hang out with us if she wants to.”

-   “No, I’ve got plans.” (of course I do. I can still catch up with E!)

The Little O. gives me the puppy look and I know that my E! morning is as far away as my trip to the Mars.

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“The Soul Whisperer” A Trilogy of Soul Awakening Revelations & Insights by Eleesha

“The Soul Whisperer” is a spiritual book based on Eleesha’s experience and her spiritual awaking. I started reading the book in the evening & within 24 hours I finished it what I think is sufficiently good review.

With every page I turned I wanted to read more & to know more. Mentally I was making notes comparing Eleesha’s suggestions with my own life.

Years ago I went through a lot of spiritual search myself. Then the life took over and my spiritual quest was put aside. However I feel after reading “The Soul Whisperer” that it’s time to begin my spiritual search once again.

The book is inspiring, easy to read and to follow without having to turn your life upside down but it may help you open up to your life purpose and help you to embrace the changes.

A must read for everyone who is searching for the meaning of life.

“Dash” by Sarah Renée

After finding her parents in “The Tiger Princess”, the first instalment of Saderia series, princess Saderia is trying to have a bit of a normal life. She decides that it is time for her to go to school like all the other kids do.

However, after all she is from the royal family and at first teachers treat her like a spoiled princess & keep warning her that she won’t be treated differently from everyone else. Saderia needs to work really hard to prove them all wrong.

Obviously not all of her classmates are nice and kind, too and Saderia faces bullies. Well, they don’t exactly bully her but Dash who is very shy and lives on his own in the forest. Saderia is instantly drawn to him and they become best friend very soon. However, Dash holds a secret which could destroy their friendship forever.

When not in school, Saderia spends a lot of time with her parents trying to make up for the lost time. Her life seems pretty normal apart from her vivid dreams which are becoming really difficult to understand. Her intuition tries to guide her but Saderia has really hard time reading the signs. But her life is turned upside down just when she finds out about…

“Dash” is a lovely story about friendship, trust and forgiveness. Sarah Renée did an excellent job describing dynamics & politics at school.

I would recommend the book to parents, children & teachers. The book will give parents & teachers great inside to children’s school life.

“The Nameless World” by Heather Payer-Smith

“The Nameless World” is a wonderful and colourful adventure book with a vital environmental and spiritual message.

Noah, the main protagonist is very young, shy, insecure and full of fear. He is bullied at school on regular basis. His self-esteem is at the lowest possible level. One day at school when he finds out that his favourite teacher - Mr. Potter is gone, Noah gets into big troubles with bullies and skips school. Or at least this is what he thinks has happened.

When Noah wakes up, he finds himself in the magical Nameless World, full of unusual creatures and amazing vegetation.

While travelling through the unknown land, Noah meets Grelgor who agrees to help him find Chatnoir, a powerful and wise being who may be able to help Noah to get back home.

Heather Payer-Smith did a fantastic job writing great dialogues and coming up with remarkable creatures inhabitating fascinating world.


I would recommend this book to any parent. In fact I think everyone should have a copy at home to help children overcome their fears and help them to learn that destroying the natural environment has consequences.

I’m looking forward to reading the second installment.

“Rascals Sing at the Opera House” by Patricia Puddle

Polly and Gertie are at school. As it often happens in their case they get into trouble with their horrible teacher Miss Badger who doesn’t appreciate girls’ originality and certain talent for troubles.

Polly and Gertie’s class is getting ready for the singing festival which will take place in the Opera House the following week. Polly doesn’t have a brilliant singing voice (nobody needs to be perfect, right?) and Gertie teases her about that a lot. Gertie sings beautifully, or at least this is what Polly says.

The teachers realize that Polly sings out of tune and they have to decide whether she should be allowed to sing at the festival. Finally they allowe her to sing in the Opera House under one condition…

However, the whole trip and the performance is in jeopardy when Aunt Mabel (the one who cooks horriblly) turns up on Friday afternoon to pick Polly up from school. This certainly is not what Polly needs because she has a big plan for the festival. To see what that is you must read the book.

“Rascals Sing at the Opera House” is the second instalment of Polly and Gertie adventures and, as in the first one, you are in for a real treat.

Patricia Puddle once again wrote a funny, entertaining and exciting book for both, children and parents (I think parents should definitely read it!!!).

PS.
You should also read Patricia’s previous books, which are a fantastic read too.

"Mikolay & Julia In The Attic" my children book is out :)

Hi everyone,

I hope you all well.

Just to let you know today my illustrated children book "Mikolay & Julia In The Attic" & an interactive website for kids is officially out.

The kids website where 2 books from Mikolay & Julia Adventures can be downloaded free of charge:
www.mikolayandjulia.com

Paperback from createspace.com

https://www.createspace.com/3724949

Paperback on amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Mikolay-Julia-A...

E-pub on goodreads

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

I hope you will enjoy it :)

Magda

Fantastic book about finding your own strength and path in life.

Saderia is a teenage tiger princess who lives with her aunt & uncle in the Royal House. Her aunt and uncle have been looking after her since her parents died in a huge forest fire. She uses computers, a library and has private tutors coming to teach her every day.
Saderia is simply being brought up to be a perfect princess by her aunt Cia.
However, she doesn’t feel that she needs to wear expensive jewelery or speak correctly to be a good princess. Unfortunately her aunt disagrees with that and Saderia needs to study and do all the things she won’t need, according to her judgement (sounds very familiar to me. In fact it sounds like me & my school).
Princess Saderia is a curious kid, full of passion and adventure in her heart. She also has very vivid dreams that seem to be verging on the reality.
One day lead by her curiosity she decides to go exploring around the house. To her greatest surprise she founds more than she could ever dream of.
Her life is turned upside down when...

“The Tiger Princess” is a fantastic book about finding your own strength and path in life and letting your intuition & gut feelings come to the surface.

Sarah Renee did wonderful job at personifying tigress’ character, filled with many human features. Her understanding of young Saderia’s psychology is phenomenal.

While reading “The Tiger Princess” I was able to identify with the emotions & fears the characters were going through.

I would recommend the book to young people age 9-14, parents (epecially if they would like to understand their children better), librariens & teachers.

“Molly Gumnut Rescues a Bandicoot” by Patricia Puddle

Molly loves animals in any shape or any form. As a school project she needs to take a picture of a native Australian animal. The best pictures are going to be printed in the school calendar, which will go on sale.
As any child, Molly really, really wants to make her parents proud & take the best picture anyone could possibly take. However, the task isn’t as easy as she would like it to be.

After unsuccessful morning full of searching for native animals Molly accidently rescues a little animal from her neighbours’ scary cat. It turns out that the animal is a bandicoot, which is a protected species in Australia.
Since the bandicoot is injured it ends up staying with Molly’s granny who looks after native animals.
Molly loves her bandicoot and wants to keep it with her. However she can’t.

Nevertheless, she is ready to do anything to protect her new friend from the dangers that are awaiting it. She does get in trouble a lot, trying to turn her crazy ideas into reality.
Molly is passionate about animals & can’t understand why parents or any other grown-ups, for that matter, are not willing to help her out.

I really like the way Patricia Puddle created Molly’s character. She reminded me of my sister a lot.
Molly is annoying at times, but also adorable & sweet with all her persistence and passion. She isn’t afraid to go the extra mile for her friend even if it means trouble for her. In my opinion she is one of those characters a lot of girls could identify with.

“Molly Gumnut Rescues a Bandicoot” is a fantastic read &
I enjoyed it a lot. It was like being a 10 year old girl once again. I would recommend the book to children 7-12, parents, teachers, librarians and animal lovers.

“Mortimer’s Book of What-Ifs?” by Mandi Tillotson Williams

What if? It’s surely one of the questions children ask. So you better have your answers ready.
However, if you don’t, check out Mandi Tillotson Williams’ new book “Mortimer’s Book of What-Ifs?”. It will give you some ideas how to deal with “What If” emergencies.
I love how Williams takes seriously all the questions & concerns children may have & turns them into fun, rhyming poems.

Mandi, once again, did a fantastic job giving parents & children great, imaginative & inspiring book that made me laugh out loud. Besides, the book reminded me of my childhood & all the questions & “What If’s” I had.
Excellent job & a fantastic read.

I would recommend “Mortimer’s Book of What-Ifs?” to children age 3-10 and grown ups of all age and all sorts. The poems will bring a child in you again.

“Leon Cameleon P.I. and the case of the Kidnapped Mouse” by Janet Hurst-Nicholson & illustrated by Barbara McGuire.

After solving the mystery of the missing canary eggs, Leon Cameleon becomes a regular helper for the police.
This time the Woodland Mouse has been kidnapped & Leon needs to find a way of rescuing him from the hands of human children.

Once again Janet Hurst-Nicholson gives her readers an interesting story full of intriguing facts from the animal world.

Amazing thing is, that despite their differences & the fact that some animals feed on the others, when it comes to danger they can all unite and stand together.

The story ends with some very interesting facts about chameleons, moles, molerats etc., which I found very useful & helpful.

I would recommend this book to children age 3-10, teachers & librarians as well as people who are interested in animals.