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5 SFF Books You Have To Read This Year

5 SFF Books You Have To Read This Year

Posted March 13, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 7 Comments

The world of science fiction and fantasy is booming and I came across many titles on the internet in the specific genre(s) but only few grabbed my attention. This Census-Taker by China Miéville Blurb:  After witnessing a profoundly traumatic event, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged parent. When a stranger knocks on his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation are over—but by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? Is he the boy’s friend? His enemy? Or something altogether other? Arcadia by Ian Pears Blurb: Henry Lytten – a spy turned academic and writer – sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Marijuana Project by Brian Laslow

BOOK REVIEW: The Marijuana Project by Brian Laslow

Posted March 8, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 2 Comments

Yes the from title you get a hunch right? The book is about marijuana and no it is not illegal in my country to write about it, consuming might be. I am not here to discuss it, I am here to appreciate Brian Maslow’s The Marijuana Project. This book is altogether something different. Even containing the elements of thriller the because an extremely new breed and considers security(which we all crave for) in-depth. The Marijuana Project is about Sam Burnett, a security expert who has been hired by a firm that produces medical Marijuana. Sam has one simple job, to establish a secure network and an environment for the employees as well as the product to survive the daily or event based breaches. Due his religious […]

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BOOK REVIEW: False Ceilings by Amit Sharma

BOOK REVIEW: False Ceilings by Amit Sharma

Posted March 4, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

It is assumed, especially by critics that an author does his research before writing a collection of pages to call it a book itself. This assumption is rewarded in the form gratifying time, entertainment level up to its highest, imagination mingling with words and visualising characters and their peculiarity.  This doesn’t work for everyone in equal terms but that doesn’t mean the assumption has fallen. No, writing is a task, and every writer puts their own effort but due the round nature of earth nothing can be strictly equal. False Ceiling by Amit Sharma is a story of generations inheriting a secret unknown. The story starts in the mountains of Dalhousie, Shakuntala, a pampered child of a wealthy builder who inherits the […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Lost Generation by Nidhi Dugar Kundalia

BOOK REVIEW: The Lost Generation by Nidhi Dugar Kundalia

Posted February 29, 2016 by @amanhimself in Reviews / 3 Comments

Nidhi Dugar Kundalia’s The Lost Generation: Chronicling India’s Dying Professions is a collection of essays about those professionals who are clinging to their traditional, ancestral trades despite the modern savage affecting the country in an improvisatory manner. The book introduces professions which most of us might not have hear, even though living almost all my life, I haven’t heard them before. One thing about a profession is that it is well suited to those practitioners who have faith in their professions. This what Nidhi, a young journalist based in Kolkata, explores traveling all around the nation. Her writing is a depth insight on professions such rudaalis, the women who are hired to cry when some rich person dies, the street […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg

BOOK REVIEW: Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg

Posted February 25, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 6 Comments

In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg explained why a person does what he does. He is out with a new book this time, entitled—  Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive and applies same relentless level of details, with numerous research studies and interviews, makes this one too, highly informative. Unlike The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better offers a variety of chapters, each different from the other in terms conceptual illustration and every chapter’s locus is on the key ideas of expanding productivity. Some elements related to productivity discussed in this book are the mental state of a person’s mind in a particular situation. Then comes decision making part. Duhigg explains the importance of creating mental models […]

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5 Books on Sports I read in 2015

5 Books on Sports I read in 2015

Posted February 20, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List / 4 Comments

Other than reading books, I am passionate about football (for americans: it’s soccer) and there isn’t a year I do not find books to read and satisfy by obsessiveness of the game. Here are 5 books worth take a look: Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola’s First Season at Bayern Munich by Martí Perarnau This a well written insight on football coaching genius. My Rating 4 out of 5 The Nowhere Man by Michael Calvin The book shines rays on the hidden world of one of the most important roles in the game of football, Scouts. My Rating 4 out of 5 Another Bloody Saturday by Mat Guy This is a book celebrating all that is great with the game […]

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GUEST POST: From Lawyer to Author by Sheila Agnew

GUEST POST: From Lawyer to Author by Sheila Agnew

Posted February 15, 2016 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 5 Comments

From Lawyer to Author in Lots of Forward, Backward and Side-Steps  by Sheila Agnew  I count myself very lucky to have grown up in Ireland where books are as much a part of the national heritage as pints of Guinness and Niall Horan of One Direction. I can see yet the classroom poster of the poet, William Butler Yeats, forever framed as an earnest, lovesick, young man squinting at us through round Harry Potter type glasses. Like all born writers, books were as much a part of me as my eyes and my limbs; reading and writing as necessary for life as breathing. But when it came time to go to college, I shoved my dream of being a writer deep down in a drawer and locked it away. I though that I had to join the grown-up world […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Enterprise by Vonda N. McIntyre

BOOK REVIEW: Enterprise by Vonda N. McIntyre

Posted February 10, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews, science fiction / 6 Comments

Enterprise: The First Adventure is a part of the Star Trek: The Original Series. Star Trek is a fascinating world of its own. Like our world, it represents it consists interesting cultural diversity with characters like Spock who is as emotionally stable as a rock. Enterprise:The First Adventure is the book about the first time captain James T. Kirk, the youngest man to be promoted to the rank of captain in Federation history. He takes of the Enterprise for the first time. Spock, Sulu, Scotty, and Janice Rand are among some other characters who try to adjust to their new captain and are introduced as it is really the beginning. The author Vonda McIntyre makes the story interesting, by her steady narration. The […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

BOOK REVIEW: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Posted February 5, 2016 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Books, Reviews / 9 Comments

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera had had come across my sight a few times before I actually picked it. This time it wasn’t in front of my sight until a friend of mine and a fellow blogger, heartily recommended me to read it. When it comes to recommending books, there are two kinds of people, one who recommend books to their fellow beings according to their taste, and the one who would recommend anything to anyone. I am surely of the latter category, but I adore the recommendations as always. Milan Kundera certainly knows how to write. Set against the Russian invasion Czechoslovakia, it is the story of characters as real as you are. It starts with a […]

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Book Review: My Dream Man by Aditi Bose

Book Review: My Dream Man by Aditi Bose

Posted February 1, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books / 11 Comments

Not often do I read romance fiction, nor they are written well versed in first person narrative. Aditi Bose’s latest contribution to contemporary romance genre is a light read, and you might be mildly impressed as I was, by the choice of her words, the humour, the verse well written, and the combination will drive the reader forward without the plot being too complicated. The story is about an ambitious yet a struggling writer, wanting all the success those limited amount of contemporary writer get out of their words. Ajopa Ganguly. A girl in her twenties who lives with her parents in Delhi. She does not take the ‘rejection’ she receives from the publishers on reading her manuscript. Instead, she tries to kill the sadness that […]

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