Tag: fantasy

Ebook available for Preorders

Posted January 29, 2018 by @amanhimself in Announcement / 15 Comments

So I recently published my first ebook through KDP (Kinde Direct Publishing) and it feels great! 😃 It is short, and will not take much time for you to read and I hope it helps you with blogging. The ebook will be available on Amazon on 1st Feburuary and it is available for pre-order here! for $ 2.99 Here is the blurb of the ebook: A Blogger’s Manifesto is a short ebook about blogging written by a blogger. It covers the story of my book blog Confessions of a Readaholic and other essentials for an individual who is getting started with blogging or is a new blogger. The book in detail covers: – Starting a blog with zero followers – Writing a compelling […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Invoked – Hymns of War by Karan Bhatia

Posted January 11, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 2 Comments

Pages: 200, Paperback Published: 2016 by Notion Press Invoked is the first book in the series of Hymns of War (a very thoughtful title, in my opinion) written by Karan Bhatia. The book is a horror thriller in the fiction genre and some of the scenes are dark and terrifying enough to give one goosebumps. The plot revolves around Krishna, a common man who is teacher at the university, and leads a simple life with his wife, daughter and his parents. An accident changes the fate of the whole family. These attacks starts like baby steps, small, as warnings but soon turn fatal and the life of Krishna becomes painful and intolerable. He then decides with the help of a […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Saudade by Husna Mohammad

Posted December 30, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

Pages: 149, Paperback Published: September, 2017 Cover Rating: 5/5 This year, I have read few short stories. Recent addition being Saudade written by creative Indian Writer, Husna Mohammad. Saudade is a collection nine different stories that cover a variety of topics but every one of them share same geographical location: Kerela, Southern India. The stories revolve around the social, political and cultural environment that exists in the region.The title itself explains by the meaning of the word Saudade, which is incidentally the running thread in most of the stories. Short stories generally mean different plots and these stories are centred around the lives of people from different walks of life and shaped by their own fate and circumstance. The first […]

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#BOOKSPOTLIGHT: Saudade by Husna Mohammad

Posted December 26, 2017 by @amanhimself in Books, Interviews / 7 Comments

Pages: 124, Kindle Edition Published: 2017 Book Blurb Very often, the most interesting stories are those that are not told. They need to be felt, heard with the heart and mind, deciphered from between the lines. Saudade, in essence, is a collection of 9 short stories centred around the lives of people from different walks of life, shaped by circumstance and traditional conformance. These tales are subtle, but can change the way the story ends. As with Che Guevera’s Legacy, where a young boy is forced to come to terms with the reality of political idealism. In The Inscrutable Case of a Lilac Saree, Zuhara Ammaye, bogged down by the loneliness of old age, struggles with the reality of her […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Europa by Hywel Richard Pinto

Posted December 23, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 8 Comments

Pages: 198 Published: 2017 Cover Rating: 5/5 Europa by Hywel Pinto is his latest book and another treat for science fiction and fantasy fans to enjoy. Got released earlier this year, this book possess a strong storyline that is entirely new from a conceptual point of view with extraordinary pace. I am a big fan of Star Trek and I really enjoyed this novel. Now let me convince you for the same.

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BOOK REVIEW: Ice Bound by Hywel Richard Pinto

Posted December 16, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 5 Comments

Pages: 234 Publisher: Becomeshakespeare.com First edition (20 July 2015) Cover Rating: 4/5 In a post-apocalyptic world, Earth is mostly covered by snow. A group of residents are traversing these frozen lands and being led by a man in search of his own father. The Diabolical army have always been one step ahead but are not the only concern of the group. Another major concern that exist is beating the nature in its own game.

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BOOK REVIEW: Aliens in Delhi by Sami Ahmad Khan

Posted December 5, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews, Thrillers / 4 Comments

Pages: 300, Paperback Published: 2017 by Niyogi Books Cover Rating: 3/5 Sci-Fi fans I have a new delight for you this time. Dr. Sami Ahmad Khan’s latest book that concerns with an extra-terrestrial race of reptiloids invasion of planet Earth. That too very much close to the place I currently live. (Brownie points to author for that). It is titled as Aliens in Delhi. Fascinating enough for me!

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BOOK REVIEW: Project Bodi by Hosein Kouros-Mehr

Posted November 16, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, science fiction / 4 Comments

Pages: 219, Kindle Edition Published: September 2017 Cover Rating: 3/5 How many science fiction books you have read on the future of out species? Out of them, how many are dystopian? Recently, I watched Blade Runner and I liked the flying cars. What if the occurrence of changes are dystopian not as the society but for the large corporations of the world of today. What if Apple becomes obsolete?

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BOOK REVIEW: March To Opulence by Parikshit Nagesh Samant

Posted November 7, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 3 Comments

Pages: 640 Published: April, 2017 by Opulencesix Digital Private Limited Cover Rating: 4/5 March to Opulence is a unique book. It consists stories from different era’s and around the world. This vast number of stories of various genres, and cultures are hard to find in a single collection such that readers of different age group have access to them.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read in October 2017

Posted October 21, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book List, Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

October is here and only few weeks are left to complete or compete anymore in your reading challenges. By the way I did complete my Goodreads challenge for 2017 of reading 200 books. (More on this later.) I have managed to gather around a list of books that are available this month for Science Fiction and Fantasy fans. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 by J. J. Adams and Charles Yu | 384 pages Science fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres—they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, interrogating […]