Author: @amanhimself

Crime and Punishment and Redemption

Crime and Punishment and Redemption

Posted May 31, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 8 Comments

Redemption. We all seek redemption. Most of us are seeking it from our past self for an idealistic future self in various forms. Writing Crime and Punishment for Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a creative redemption from his past and some of his brother, originally titled The Drunkards. Dostoyevsky became fond of this project and rewrote a version of it from scratch, that we take in our hands today and proudly read. From the start of the novel, the author accomplishes to decipher that the protagonist, Raskolnikov, is tortured by his own thoughts. A student, as many, poverty-stricken, plans an instantaneous murder of an old pawnbroker, thinking it will delay his poverty for few more weeks, completely ignorant of the aftermath and […]

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Meditating with Marcus Aurelius

Meditating with Marcus Aurelius

Posted May 27, 2016 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Books, Reviews, Stoic Philosophy / 24 Comments

Some practical words of wisdom to configure your life from a Roman Emperor.

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BOOK REVIEW: Theatre of Dreams by Nikhil Krishnan

BOOK REVIEW: Theatre of Dreams by Nikhil Krishnan

Posted May 24, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 6 Comments

There are times when I feel to like shorter book reviews. I had done it only once in a previous post, and the feedback was not good. Irrespective of the feedback, I am going to make one more try this time. The reason of this you will understand in the end of the post. Theatre of Dreams by Nikhil Krihsnan starts with a bang. It’s a story about town which adores football (or soccer, as you prefer, as did the author) and the plot revolves around Roman Valka, a young talent when discovered, brings excitement to the whole town and given the hope of winning the victory they are awaiting of some years. Well it’s not all about football, as […]

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Celebrating 4 Years

Celebrating 4 Years

Posted May 22, 2016 by @amanhimself in Uncategorized / 16 Comments

Today, Confessions of a Readaholic underwent a revamp. It was necessary. Two tiring hours were spent on selecting the theme, the one you are currently viewing. I guess, it was worth it. There were some major changes I had to look through, changing the theme was one. The reason I switched from 3-column view to 2-column is responsiveness of the site itself. It enhances the mobile/tablet view and I am sure some my readers had problems going through this blog on their handy devices. Myself had trouble opening this site in mobile with previous theme. Few times it lead to humiliation. But I accepted that humiliation because I could not find a theme that could satisfy the appearance of blog site and myself. […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Art of Creative Thinking by Rod Judkins

BOOK REVIEW: The Art of Creative Thinking by Rod Judkins

Posted May 20, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 6 Comments

Buy this Book on Amazon We are all capable of thinking creatively. Why? It gives better productivity, more satisfaction than the mediocre, and improves visualisation. Rod Judkins, the author of The Art of Creative Thinking, is a lecturer and an academic on the arts. But this certainly doesn’t mean one has to attend or get some modern education on attaining the creativity. There is no fountain of creativity to drink from. On reading The Art of Creative Thinking, I observed from Chap 1, that Judkins knows what he is talking about. He quotes, he para-phrases, and he writes mostly about the obstacle one intends to face when suffering from lack of creativity and how to develop some cues and turn […]

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Stop Procrastinating and Start Reading

Stop Procrastinating and Start Reading

Posted May 17, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books / 25 Comments

This is a blog post as well as an alert/reminder to my brain, especially the title, and to those who have been bitten by a dog name “Reading Slump”.  No, there is no need to check with a doctor, neither you need a bibliophilist. The main occurrence of a reading slump due my observation is regardless the number of books we have on our stack, we bibliophiles, procrastinate enough to make it a distraction and cause us the slump . One cannot eliminate procrastination in an ultimate manner from his life. But trying to eliminate it, or not thinking about it too much and just focusing on the stuff we need to het over with, in every bibliophiles case, read ’em. The […]

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Spotlight: You’ve Got the Wrong Girl

Spotlight: You’ve Got the Wrong Girl

Posted May 14, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books / 3 Comments

You’ve Got the Wrong Girl by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu About the book:  On a sultry night, on a deserted lawn overlooking a moonlit Taj Mahal, two strangers make passionate love and promise never to meet again… But promises are meant to be broken, right? This is the story of Dushyant Singh Rathore – the 30-something bestselling author of Kinda Cliched, a blockbuster romance novel based on his one night of bliss with a girl whose name he does not know. Under pressure to produce a money-spinning sequel – from his obsessive fans, his hit-seeking publisher and a sceptical journalist ready to expose the true-story angle as a marketing gimmick – he sets off, three years on, to find the elusive […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Thicker than Blood by Munmun Gosh

BOOK REVIEW: Thicker than Blood by Munmun Gosh

Posted May 10, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 6 Comments

Sometimes when you are reading a book, it’s all about the reading. The plot, the characters— likeable ones and unlikable ones, nobody gives a damn about mediocre ones. The setting matters at times when a reader is in the mood. The setting of the plot again matters if a writer can surprise irrespective of a reader’s mood. Such as I won’t be looking forward to the setting of the plot in a Shakespeare’s play as much as in Charles Dickens’ novel. There a lot of other factors which we, as readers, unknowingly look forward too. Thick than Blood by Munmun Gosh tells a tale of a couple who are facing a misadventure in their marriage when are introduced to a […]

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GUEST POST- Sometimes I feel like an Alien by Mannah Pierce

GUEST POST- Sometimes I feel like an Alien by Mannah Pierce

Posted May 7, 2016 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 2 Comments

Sometimes I feel like an alien  by Mannah Pierce  There is this fast moving, transient, internet-based world that I do not understand and where I do not belong: Twitter; Facebook; blogs; forums; apps. Even that short list labels me as out-of-date and left-behind. I made it to email and websites but there I stopped. Despite sporadic efforts, that is where I remain. I used to sit at the side of the internet highway and watch the traffic flash by. There had to be a way of getting up to speed. In Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘The Roads Must Roll’ (1940) there is a mass transit system of huge conveyor belts, called ‘roadtowns’, each of which moves at a steady speed. To […]

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Introduction to The Bard

Introduction to The Bard

Posted May 3, 2016 by @amanhimself in Authors, Books, classics, Infographic / 9 Comments

I know, most of you are familiar with the terms: The Bard, and the Bard of Avon. Recently, the world celebrated The Bard’s 400th death anniversary on April 23, 2016, and the Bard himself is unaware of. Why “The Bard”? Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? It is almost summer everywhere and I was wondering the other summer day why is the Bard is called The Bard. In general terms, ‘bard’ means a poet. In medieval times, all bards were travelling poets who made living out of performing and telling stories. Thus so, edging out the Medieval times, our Bard was a performer in plays and loved to write plays himself. Why Celebrate his Death Anniversary? The reason being […]

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