The World is a Book

  Before I start, a disclaimer. I don't like giving negative reviews. Books are awesome. And the chances are, if enough people are willing to put their time into a book, editing, proof reading, graphic designing, publishing, marketing, and of course writing, then it isn't a bad book. What I am saying when I give a bad review, or a low star rating, is that I didn't like that book, and if you like similar books to me, maybe you won't like it either. This is very true of Life Begins on Friday. Objectively, it isn't badly written. I can see it did what it set out to do. Probably it did this with aplomb, it won the European Union prize for literature after all (and everyone loves the European Union...). But it just really isn't the type of book I enjoy. Since the fall of communism in Romania Ioana Pârvulescu has been working in literature in one form or another. She teaches Modern Literature at the University of Bucharest, and also has worked at  România literară , a...