Reviews...

I will not be posting any more background information about my book (Just Another Life) on this blog. From now on, this is open for reviews, which you can leave in the comments section.

I invite everyone to say exactly what they think about the book, ask whatever questions you want, start any kind of dialogue on any topic. Please feel free to express yourself regardless if English is your first language or not; I know foreign language is often easier to understand than to speak – I have been there J

I do not claim that everything I have written in the book (all the ideas) are perfectly accurate, but it is the best I have so far. Please feel free to disagree and don’t fear to stand up for what you believe and do not think others MUST agree with you – discussion is sometimes the best way forward, but everyone must be free to make up their own minds. Also, give others and yourself time to think – this is not a race, we are here to exchange ideas.

I have received many e-mails with views so far, but, just in case you don’t want that to be made public, I will let you choose to either post your own views here or let me copy-paste what you have already sent me.

Thank you all so much for your support.

I’d love to hear from all my readers, so please feel free to come and say exactly what you think!

Love and best wishes to you all!

Meliha

Songs mentioned in the book...

I was asked about songs that I mention in my book Just Another Life:

First one, with relevant lyrics translated, May hears in café River while Benjamin goes to talk to someone:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FVHkbu3_e4 – it is by a Serb who always stood up against the war and I support these people no matter how few they might be… This song is called: “As long as there is no war” – the video is from a concert he held in Sarajevo in 1998…

Second one May and Harris listen to in the car on the way to the mountains; this one I’ve put together from a number of songs so there’s no link :)

Third one May hears in the taxi as she’s leaving the city, moving to the mountains to live there forever, alone with her daughter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPsAORdTZo – the song is called: “I miss you”, again, relevant lyrics translated within the text of the book.

Back Cover Final

Fools make premature statements, jumping passionately to false conclusions. Wise ask questions and walk steadily to the correct conclusion.

After a life lived, May learns how extraordinary an ordinary life is in the web of love and hate, sorrow and joy, friends and foes, good and evil, knowledge, understanding and ignorance, truth and illusion.

May was born with an open mind and introvert heart. Rest of her character is chiselled by war, loss of her mother, wonderful friends, life-long desire to know her father and the great disappointment when this desire is fulfilled, and other significant and small, happy and sad events of her life.

When she meets Harris, a former army officer, May finds fate generous – his strength helps her overcome her greatest weakness.

Professionally, May chose a humble path in life, though some believed she should do more. Her unique (right or wrong) perspective of the world, that she shared with Benjamin in café River, combined with her education, made some believe May belongs with leaders. However, is May one of the wise who lack confidence?

Future events lead May out of the civilisation and into the mountains. While the mountains granted a refuge from people (averting those she wished to avoid, welcoming those she loved), they could not protect her from fate; and fate followed to please and torment.