My Calendar. A Book for Reading and Inspiration

You can read this book correctly and incorrectly. Incorrectly is if you read it all at once. Correctly is one page each day. Then your life will become better. In any case, brighter.

Every day is a match that can be won or lost.

Once I made a discovery for myself – just as many others surely have: you need to approach the match in the right mood, then the chances of victory increase.

Well, you can create the right mood for yourself.

This is exactly how I start each of my days. Depending on what I have to do, I play the right music or read the right poem. This is the tuning fork that sets the necessary tonality for the new day.

If I were a composer, I would make a calendar of 366 morning melodies; if I were a poet, I would compose 366 morning poems. Because each day is unique.

But since I am a historical novelist, "My Calendar" consists of 372 little stories. More precisely, three hundred seventy-two reminders that something very good or very important once happened on this very day. (372, not 366, because I don’t want to offend any month, and in each of them I account for 31 days, honestly. 30 February or, say, 31 June, I tell about events and people who never actually existed, but for me, they do. And they will help you just as well as what existed in reality).

Read and tune yourself for victory in the match.