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Title: What to expect when you’re expecting

Author: Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel

Genre: Pregnancy Guide

Published: 1984

Rating: 4/5

Synopsis: 

This brand new fifth edition is filled with must have information, practical advice, realistic insight, easy-to-use tips and lots of reassurance. You will find the very latest on prenatal screenings, which medications are safe and the most current birthing options – from water birth to gentle C – sections.

Your pregnancy lifestyle gets equal attention, too: eating (including food trends) to coffee drinking, working out (and work) to sex, travel to beauty, skincare, and more. Have pregnancy symptoms? You will – and you’ll find solutions for them all. Expecting multiples? There is a chapter for you. Expecting to become a dad? This book has you covered, too. 

Review:

What to expect when you’re expecting is a pregnancy guide book. This book is one of USA today’s “Most influential books” of the past 25 years. And has been described as the “the Bible of American pregnancy”. In 2005, WhatToExpect.com launched. The What to Expect mobile app launched on iOS in 2009 and Android in 2014. In 2012, What to Expect When You're Expecting was adapted into a film. 

This book presents advice in a question and answer format. This book covers chapters like 

• Begins from suspect pregnancy to nine months of pregnancy

• Pregnancy lifestyle and eating habits

• Exercises

• Labor and delivery

• Expecting multiples

• Postpartum

• Managing complications

• Pregnancy loss

Each nine month chapter includes sections like “your baby this month and your body this month”. These chapters are well organized and gave us so much details for each topics. Each chapter includes baby’s position images. Exercise chapters includes step by step procedures with appropriate images. 

Book’s index lists includes additional sources of information and resources like government organizations, associations and foundations.

Altogether, this guidance book delineates every information regarding pregnancy with meticulous care. 

I highly recommend this book to all the parents-to-be. 

Happy pregnancy and reading!!!

பொருள்:

சீரிளமை - the eternal youthness

ஆயனம் - year/ஆண்டு

அன்வயி - follow/பின் தொடர்

Genre: Crime Drama, Law

Language: Korean

Episodes: 20

Network: tvN

Distributor: Netflix

Rating: 4/5

Synopsis:

Vincenzo Cassano is a consigliere for the mafia who flees to Seoul and sets out to recover 1.5 tons of gold which is secretly stashed within the basement of Geumga Plaza. However, a real estate company under Babel Group has illegally taken ownership of the building, and Vincenzo must use his skills to reclaim the building and recover his fortunes.

Review:

Vincenzo is a South Korean television series which aired on tvN network, each episode was released on Netflix in South Korea and internationally after it’s television broadcast. 

Vincenzo Cassano (Song Joong-ki) – is an Italian Lawyer and Mafia consigliere of Korean descent. Song Joong- ki is an apposite choice for this role. His devilish side matches well at the beginning. Later on he becomes close with tenants at Geumga Plazza which fades out his dark sides. 

Hong Cha-Young (Jeon Yeo-been) – is a lawyer and the daughter of Hong Yoo-chan. Her dynamic performance suits well. 

Jang Jun-woo / Jang Han-seok (Ok Taec-yeon) – is the true CEO of Babel group and the main antagonist of this series. He has done lot of egregious things to others. He is pertinent for this flagitious character. 

So many characters played important roles. Some interesting characters are Kim Yeo-jin, Kwak Dong-yeon, Yoon Bok-in and Choi Young-joon.

Director Kim Hee-won has done a fantastic job. Writer Park Jae-bum has written somewhat different story from other typical korean drama plots. But, he dragged the story a lot. Composer Park Se-joon has done a good job but his background theme is repeated a lot. 

On the whole, Vincenzo is a fine series played by loads of wondrous characters which loses its main essence due to its outstretched narration in the later part. 

I highly recommend this series to the lovers of atypical Korean dramas and also to the admirers of Song Joong-ki and Ok Taec-yeon. 

Happy Watching!!!

"Vincenzo" Trailer