My name is Scrooge. I was born in 2000. I am 22 years old. Now I live alone, away from my family. I am studying computer engineering at the University. I love reading books. I especially read adventure books. However lately I read more often with kindle. Easier to carry and more comfortable. I love the New Year more than any other holiday. I am especially prepared for 2022. I found recipes for delicious dishes on the Internet, I bought all the ingredients online, I did not have to stand in line in supermarkets. I baked cakes, cookies and packed everything nicely.

The Christmas tree also came out original. On the YouTube channel I saw how Christmas trees, toys, various accessories are made from waste and I made and decorated everything with my own hands. A very enjoyable process was the preparation of the Christmas tree trim. I started in late October. I became so skilled at creating my own original toys, I also recorded video tutorials and posted them on the YouTube channel. You will be surprised and my channel has over a million subscribers. So a new hobby and source of income came to me.

I made an electronic greeting card for Christmas and emailed all my acquaintances. In short, a lot of money is saved thanks to the internet. This year I am especially looking forward to the New Year. Unfortunately, I cannot travel with my parents. Instead, my past and future, as well as Marley, are visiting me. They gave me special gifts: the spirit of the past gave me a mirror because it reminded me of my childhood. The soul of the future is a prophetic cup to understand my future. Marley’s soul even gave her a magic pen, which in itself wrote the words dictated on a piece of paper.

On New Year’s Eve we went to a children’s and nursing home. We gave lots of presents, sweets, toys and clothes to the children and the elderly living there. Then we held a concert together. I was happy to do a small favor for them and one day we made it beautiful. When I got home, I also came across secret Santa gifts: an iPhone 13 and a laptop. The New Year preparations went very well, but one fact made me think a lot: there was a lot of noise in the New Year. A torrent of rain fell. The noise covered the whole city. They were very scared dogs and tried to take shelter in my house, they were barking, barking, and asking for help with frightened eyes. Therefore, this year I am going to shelter stray animals and convince people not to let go of the torches.

I want to end the pandemic in 2022 and get back to an active life: football, swimming and being visited often by my friends and relatives, I also really want to travel with my parents.

გთავაზობთ, ვალენტინობის ერთდღიანი დღესასწაული  გაიხანგრძლივოთ და ჩვენი წიგნების ემოციებით გაზაფხულამდეც გაითბოთ გულები.

რა თქმა უნდა, სიყვარულსა და გრძნობებზე საუბარი წარმოუდგენელია William Shakespeare-ის „Romeo and Juliet“-ს გარეშე. ავტორი მოგვითხრობს სიყვარულზე, რომელიც სიძულვილსაც ჯაბნის და საბოლოოდ ასრულებს მონტეგებისა და კაპულეტების მრავალწლიან ქიშპს. ნაწარმოები უამრავ რომანის, ფილმისა თუ საბალეტო დადგმის შთაგონებად იქცა.

ასევე, უკვდავი სიყვარულის ისტორია აღწერა F. Scott Fitzgerald-მა რომანში „The Great Gatsby“. საინტერესოა, რომ წიგნმა საკმაოდ დიდი ხნის შემდეგ მოიპოვააღიარება; ჩაიარა დიდი რეპრესიის პერიოდმა და მეორე მსოფლიო ომმაც და მხოლოდ შემდეგ აღმოაჩინა მსოფლიომ ეს განსაკუთრებული ნაწარმოები.

F. Scott Fitzgerald-ი ძირითადად გვიამბობს მდიდარი ადამიანების ცხოვრებას; მათი სულიერი ტკივილის, უიმედობისა და ადამიანთა გულგრილობის ფონზე კი წარმოაჩენს სიყვარულს.

F. Scott Fitzgerald-მა ლიტერატურაში შექმნა დაუვიწყარი პერსონაჟი ჯეი გეტსბის სახით, რომელიც, მიუხედავად სიმდიდრისა, საოცარ სულიერ ტკივილს განიცდის უიმედო სიყვარულის გამო. ნაწარმოები ნათლად, უხეშადაც კი გვანახებსსიყვარულის ყველაზე ბნელ მხარეს და მისგან გამოწვეულ ენით აღუწერელ განცდებს.

შემდეგი მწერალი, რომელიც დაუვიწყარ ემოციებთანაა დაკავშირებული Gabriel Garcia Marquez-ია . მისი გამორჩეული ნაწარმოები „Love in the Time of Cholera“ , პირველივე წინადადებიდან ნუსხავს მკითველს, ესაა წიგნი, რომელიც გვანახებს, რომ პანდემიას ამარცხებს მხოლოდ სიყვარული, რომელსაც არ აქვს ასაკი.

დაბოლოს, შემოგთავაზებთ Jojo Moyes-ის ტრილოგიას : “Me Before You“ , „The Girl You Left Behind“ და „After You“. აღნიშნულ ბესთსელერებში შეხვდებით სიყვარულს,რომელიც ადამიანს შეაგრძნობინებს საკუთარი თავის ღირსებასა და უფრო საინტერესოს გახდის მის ცხოვრებას.

ყველა აღნიშნულ წიგნზე Bookshop გთავაზობთ 20 % – მდე ფასდაკლებას 14 თებერვლის ჩათვლით.

Dear Teachers,

We would like to inform you that English Book in Georgia in partnership with Macmillan Education is organising ELT training sessions on the 14^th-17^th of June in the following cities:

• Batumi- 14 June, 09:30-17:00
• Kutaisi-15 June, 11:30-17:45
• Telavi-16 June, 11:30-17:45
• Tbilisi-17 June, 09:30-17:00, N2 Nestan-Darejani Str. 3 m/r, Didi Dighomi

The training sessions will be conducted by famous trainers and authors – Dave Spencer, Teresa Doguelli and Anna Hasper.

The sessions include the following topics:

• Keep Calm and Carry On: Tips for managing and motivating teens
• Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
• Grammar for Pleasure
• KEYS for Engaging Young Learners
• Activating Literacy Skills for Young Learners

 For booking your place contact us at englishbookteam@englishbook.ge │ t.khachidze@englishbook.co.uk

Or contact your sales representative till the 8^th of June.

“Astonishing and absorbing…from glam rock, minimalism and punk, to radical left-wing politics, music video, and a mass of other subjects that helped shape the ideas behind Bowie’s songs.” —Sunday Times (London)

The Man Who Sold the World by Peter Doggett—author of the critically acclaimed Beatles biography, You Never Give Me Your Money—is a song-by-song chronicle of the evolution of David Bowie. Focusing on the work and the life of one of the most groundbreaking figures in music and popular culture during the turbulent seventies, Bowie’s most productive and innovative period, The Man Who Sold the World is the book that serious rock music lovers have been waiting for. By exploring Bowie’s individual achievements and breakthroughs one-by-one, Doggett paints a fascinating portrait of the performer who paved the way for a host of fearless contemporary artists, from Radiohead to Lady Gaga.

The Sunday Times bestseller.

David Bowie was arguably the most influential artist of his time, reinventing himself again and again, transforming music, style and art for over five decades.

Thirty years on from his first hit single, ‘Space Oddity’. he remains the most influential rock star from the post-Woodstock generation – yet unlike Hendrix, the Beatles or even Prince, his life has never been the subject of a major biography. Strange Fascination chronicles Bowie’s career against the colourful backdrop of post-Beatles pop culture; of glam-era gender- bending. It’s a story of amazing creativity, of huge, showboating theatricality and of an almost pathological quest to remain relevant and at pop’s cutting edge. Strange Fascination is the most complete account of David Bowie and his impact on pop culture ever written.

The celebrated Italian intellectual shot to fame with his 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a medieval detective novel set in an Italian abbey, which follows Brother William of Baskerville as he investigates a series of suspicious deaths. The novel captured imaginations globally and was turned into a film starring Sean Connery as William.

After finished his doctoral thesis, Eco lectured at his alma mater and during the same period worked at Italy’s state broadcaster, RAI, as a cultural editor. He went on to develop his interest in semiotics, the study of signs and symbols, and became a professor of the subject at the University of Bologna. His significant academic writings include On Beauty and the later On Ugliness, exploring how people’s perceptions are shaped through history.

He was “an extraordinary example of a European intellectual, combining unique intelligence of the past with a limitless capacity to anticipate the future”, said Italy’s prime minister.

Here are  some interesting highlights of Austen’s life, career, and literary impact.

1. Although she never married,Jane Austendid become engaged — for one night. She received and accepted a proposal of marriage on December 2, 1802, two weeks before her 27 birthday. Jane Austen changed her mind overnight, however, and refused the proposal the next morning. And, perhaps she changed her mind because she believed – as she later wrote to a niece considering a marriage of convenience – that “nothing can be compared to the misery of being bound without Love.” Fortunately for her readers, she chose to remain single and was able to focus on writing rather than running a household and raising children.
2. Jane Austen continued to imagine how the lives of her characters evolved long after she finished a novel.InA Memoir of Jane Austen, her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh wrote, “She would, if asked, tell us many little particulars about the subsequent career of some of her people.” For example, Anne Steele, Lucy’s silly and vulgar sister in Sense and Sensibility, did not catch Dr. Davies after all. And, after the close of Pride and Prejudice, Kitty Bennet eventually married a clergyman near Pemberley, while Mary ended up with a clerk who worked for her Uncle Philips. Some of the most interesting revelations, however, related to Emma. Mr. Woodhouse not only survived Emma’s marriage to Mr. Knightly, but also kept his daughter and son-in-law living at Hartfield for two years. Deirdre Le Faye has also noted in Jane Austen: A Family Record that “According to a less well-known tradition, the delicate Jane Fairfax lived only another nine or ten years after her marriage to Frank Churchill.”
3. The surnames of a number of Austen’s characters can be found within the prominent and wealthy Wentworth family of Yorkshire — which also happens to intersect with Jane Austen’s own family tree.
4. Jane Austen took her writing very seriously. She began writing stories, plays and poetry when she was 12 years old. Most of her “Juvenilia,” as the material she wrote in her youth is called, was in the comic vein. She wrote a parody of textbook histories,The History of England… by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant historian, when she was 16 years old. She also wrote parodies of the romantic novels of “sensibility” that were popular in her day. Austen’s family members read aloud and performed plays for each other, and she learned about writing from these activities and the comments her family made about her own efforts. By the age of 23, Austen had written first drafts of the novels that later became Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey.     From the letters she wrote to her sister, Cassandra, and other family members, one can see that Jane Austen was proud of her writing. She enjoyed discussing her latest work, sharing news about a novel’s progress at the printer, and offering advice on the craft of writing to other aspiring authors in the family. She also carefully tracked comments made by family members and friends about Mansfield Park and Emma and referred to Pride and Prejudice as her “own darling child.” Jane Austen continued writing throughout her adult life until just before she died in July of 1817.
5. Jane Austen’s life was not limited to a sheltered country existence. On the surface, her life seems to have been quiet and secluded; she was born in a small country village and lived there for 25 years. Her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh publishedA Memoir of Jane Austen in 1869, which reinforced the image that she was a demure, quiet maiden aunt in the best Victorian tradition. However, she led a very active life with travel and social contacts of many types. Through her family and friends she learned a great deal about the world around her.
6. Men read Jane Austen, too.Jane Austen’s novels are sometimes viewed as “chick-lit” romances, leading some men to think they wouldn’t enjoy reading them. But, Jane Austen has always had male admirers. Her books are not just about romance; they have a serious instructional purpose clothed in novel form. British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan admitted to reading Austen’s novels, andWinston Churchill credited her with helping him win World War II .Rudyard Kipling read Jane Austen aloud to his wife and daughter each evening in an effort to raise their spirits after his son, fighting in WWI, was reported missing and believed dead. And one of her male contemporaries, Sir Walter Scott, praised her writing in his journal: “Also read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen’s very finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with.”

Those of us who’ve read the Harry Potter series fell in love because of the wonder of it all.

In a way, these Harry Potter books are new. Paging through the Illustrated Edition brings back the magic and wonder you felt while reading the series for the first time. Jim Kay’s illustrations are simply gorgeous — they’re peppered throughout the story in different shapes and sizes, and perfectly blend with Rowling’s words.

This Illustrated Edition is wider and taller than other versions of the Potter books in order to accommodate the combination of Rowling’s words and Kay’s illustrations. Printed in full color with a slight gloss, turning each page is an exciting prospect.

And these two illustrations depicting Harry with Hagrid and Dumbledore remind you of the wonder Sorcerer’s Stone beholds: Harry is a new, young wizard being introduced to a complicated, beautiful, magical world for the first time.

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