{"id":1979,"date":"2012-02-15T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-11-15T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T09:01:45","slug":"breaking-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/15\/breaking-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nOr What to Read&Wear These Cold Days<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you as cold as I am? Hope these fashion trends for Winter 2012 will warm you up a bit. Lay back with a cup of your favourite tea and indulge yourselves into this fashion feast. <\/p>\n

                                                                     Chanel<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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                                                                   Carolina Herrera<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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                                                                                 Dior<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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                                                                            Valentino<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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                                                                        Michael Kors<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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                                                                            Gucci<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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Now, the other part of my blog will be book reviews and recommendations<\/u> because we are all aware of the importance of inner beauty.
\n\u201cA reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.\u201d<\/i>  George R.R. Martin, writer<\/p>\n

I will start with some of my favourite titles, sorted by genre:<\/p>\n

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\nGood oldies (Classic never Dies):<\/span><\/b>  “Vanity Fair“<\/i> William Makepeace Thackeray (very funny), “The picture of Dorian<\/i> Gray“<\/i> (and other novels by Oscar Wilde)- not recommended for depressed people, “Eugene Onegin“<\/i> (Alexander Pushkin) \u2013 very wintery (as only in Russia can be)<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nFantasy:<\/span><\/b> “Chronicles of Narnia“<\/i> C.S. Lewis,  “The Hobbit or There and back again“<\/i> J.R.R.Tolkien, “Stardust“<\/i> Neil Gaiman \u2013 all of these books also have their screen version but nothing can replace the Book. <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nAdventure: <\/span><\/b>“The Count of Monte Cristo’<\/span><\/i>‘ Alexandre Dumas \u2013  “Vengeance is mine“ saith the Lord \u2013 not in this case, novels by Jules Verne<\/i> (such a genious mind)<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n<\/a>Historical fiction novels: <\/i><\/span><\/b>“The song of Troy“ <\/span><\/i>Colleen McCullough \u2013 contains of many POVs (Pieces of View): Priam, Hector, Achilles, Helen of Troy and many others), “The other Boleyn girl“<\/i><\/span> <\/span>Phillippa Gregory<\/span> , “Kleopatra“ <\/i>Karen Essex<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nLove: <\/span><\/b>“The orange girl“<\/span><\/i> Jostein Gaarder, “The time traveler’s wife“<\/i> Audrey Niffenegger, “The feast of roses“<\/i> Indu Sundaresan<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nComic: <\/span><\/b>“Neither here nor there“<\/span><\/i> Bill Bryson (his backpack around Europe), “How to kill your husband (and other handy household hints)“<\/i> Kathy Lette<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n<\/a>Detective fiction:<\/span><\/b>  Arthur Conan Doyle<\/i> and Agatha Cristie<\/i> are the two most accomplished authors of the genre. They will last forever. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Or What to Read&Wear These Cold Days Are you as cold as I am? Hope these fashion trends for Winter 2012 will warm you up a bit. Lay back with a cup of your favourite tea and indulge yourselves into this fashion feast.                                                                      Chanel                                                                    Carolina Herrera                                                                           …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,11],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandlilies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}