{"id":61,"date":"2026-09-30T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflectionchic.com\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:06:16","slug":"read","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reflectionchic.com\/en\/read\/","title":{"rendered":"Read"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Delve deeper. Books that are not odes, but confessions.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Some Thoughts Need More Room<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

There are thoughts that fit nicely into a few lines. And then there are others that linger. They grow, encounter characters, create conflicts, and, at a certain point, demand more space. READ was created for them. Or perhaps for me. It\u2019s the least mature part of ReflectionChic, but probably the one with the most projects in the works: about ten projects, including novels, short stories, plays, fairy tales for adults, and various experiments. Some are almost ready. Others are being revised. Still others are in the phase technically defined as: \u201cI know exactly what I want to do. I just need to rewrite half the book.\u201d
They\u2019re different stories, but they all start from more or less the same place: people, contradictions, relationships, power, choices, and that extraordinary ability we have to find excellent reasons to justify almost everything we do.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Not a Bookshop \u2014 A Work in Progress<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

READ doesn\u2019t want to wait until a book is finished to talk about it. Here you\u2019ll find projects still in the works: covers, mini-synopses, a few words on why they came to be, and some excerpts. A little window into the workshop\u2014without turning it into a reality show. Because a book, at least in my case, doesn\u2019t magically appear on Amazon after a particularly inspired night or a rampant use of artificial intelligence. It\u2019s born. It changes. It gets rewritten. Sometimes it gets better. Sometimes it gets worse. And sometimes we go back to the previous version, pretending it was all planned that way. When it\u2019s ready, self-publishing will follow. ReflectionChic tells the book\u2019s story. The platform makes it available. Everyone does what they do best.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Discover my Books<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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I\u2019m Fifty, Damn It!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

I\u2019m Fifty, Damn It! isn\u2019t your typical midlife crisis story. No convertibles, Ironman races in Hawaii, twenty-something lovers, or sudden spiritual epiphanies. Rather, it\u2019s an ironic, bitter, and at times merciless portrait of a man (partly based on the author\u2019s own life) who\u2019s approaching fifty and begins to wonder if the life he\u2019s leading is really the one he wanted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Delve deeper<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
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Get up!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Get up! is not a novel, nor is it an academic essay, and it does not claim to teach you how to live. It is a collection of personal reflections, provocative ideas, ironic observations, and a few uncomfortable truths about a society that seems to have lost the joy of thinking for itself. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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