Miss Sherlock

I've recently discovered this peculiar TV show inspired by the adventures of the famous detective. If you love Japan and mystery stories, this may be a good series to watch while enjoying some sushi.

The Library of Lost and Found: review.

I have three questions for readers:

1. How much of your day is devoted to doing tasks for other people and how much time do you spend doing things for yourself?

2.Out of all the chores that are in your to-do list, how many will benefit you and how many will benefit others?

3. Is pleasing people  taking up too much of your time and at the end of the day you feel exhausted and still have a sense of unfulfillment?

If you've answered yes to any of the previous questions, you need to take a break and read this book.

Martha is a middle-aged woman who believes she has wasted her life, working for peanuts, taking care of her demanding parents and doing a wide array of favours to very ungrateful so-called friends. She just does not have a life of her own. As a child, she received little bits of conditional love and that's the way she thinks love is: you are worth how much people appreciate what you do for them. But then she finds a book and everything changes.

The Library of Lost and Found is in my opinion about the second chances we can give ourselves and about self-love. That's what I loved about the novel, the way Martha manages to turn everything around focusing on herself first. She doesn't become a selfish person, she becomes self-aware and starts living her own life.

For Better or For Worse by Margot Hunt: opinion.

Natalie and Will are a middle-class couple of attorneys who have to endure one of the hardest tests as parents and at the same time deal with a crumbling marriage. Their beautiful boy has been abused by someone they trusted.

Even though the topic of child abuse makes me sick, I finished the book and I didn't regret it. You will feel enraged when you read it and you will want the worse to happen to those who committed that horrendous crime. Well, the way it ends (view spoiler)[can be considered quite satisfactory (hide spoiler)] and may make you think what you would have done in the same circumstances.

I recommend this book to readers who believe that no crime should go unpunished.