Category: 5 Stars

BOOK REVIEW: A Place Called Schugara by Joe English

Posted August 28, 2018 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Sometimes, when reading a book I often feel the characters it consists are the backbone. I do not know if you have encountered this feeling but I have. The storyline can be flawless but there is a lot that depends on the characters. These characters do not just fill up the pages but they tend to create their own illustration in our minds. For this kind of book, I do believe a writer needs to have a seamless ability to develop such characters and give them air to breathe in between the pages. A Place called Schugara by Joe English is one of that type of book. The storyline is intriguing as it is based in Caribbean islands. It consists […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Work that Matters by Maia Duerr

BOOK REVIEW: Work that Matters by Maia Duerr

Posted February 11, 2018 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 1 Comment

Maia Duerr’s new book is all you want to read before this year ends. Why? Because her book holds that element of getting you enthusiastic to start the New Year with an authentic perspective of how to keep living and do what you want to do.

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BOOK REVIEW: The Tao of Fully Feeling – Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame by Pete Walker

BOOK REVIEW: The Tao of Fully Feeling – Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame by Pete Walker

Posted January 7, 2018 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 3 Comments

Pages: 295, Kindle Edition The Tao of Fully Feeling is the best companion I have found to read in the Dark Times. I got this book as a recommendation from another blogger who convinced me that Pete Walker’s writing is extraordinary. On reading the book, not only I found his vocabulary pleasing but as well as his writing style and the message he wants to convey through his written words. The subject matter of this book is all about acknowledging one’s emotional intelligence. If you remember Daniel Goleman’s bestseller and and one of the first books on Emotional Intelligence or why EQ matters more than IQ, this book is written for modern times and is a step ahead. While Daniel […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Ramona by Manoj Jain

BOOK REVIEW: Ramona by Manoj Jain

Posted November 30, 2017 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 5 Comments

Pages: 110, Paperback Published: 2017 by Notion Press Cover Rating: 5/5 Manoj Jain released his fourth book few weeks back. After his success of his third novel Balraj which made an honest effort to explore deeper psychological and spiritual self, somewhat a territory that not many contemporary Indian writers try to explore. His latest book Ramona, a novella, which originally is a sequel to Balraj but works well as a standalone novel explores psychology of an abandoned married woman.

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BOOK REVIEW: Despite Stolen Dreams by Anita Krishan

BOOK REVIEW: Despite Stolen Dreams by Anita Krishan

Posted October 14, 2017 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Pages: 304 Published: July 2017 by Fingerprint! Publishing Cover Rating: 5/5 Sometimes as a reader you know that you are going to like a book even when you are judging this statement just by looking at the cover and reading the blurb. My story with Despite Stolen Dreams written by Anita Krishan is similar. I loved the cover and tiny fantasies started appearing in my head as if to predict what was written inside these 300 pages.

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BOOK REVIEW: The Fragrance of Rose by Chirajit Paul

BOOK REVIEW: The Fragrance of Rose by Chirajit Paul

Posted July 27, 2017 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Pages: 240 Pages, Paperback Published: 2017 Cover Rating: 5/5 Plot is highly intriguing, one of the best I have read this year.

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BOOK REVIEW: Domina by Lisa Hilton

BOOK REVIEW: Domina by Lisa Hilton

Published in April, 2017 Published in India: May, 2017 Pages 400, Paperback Judging this book by its cover 4/5 Goodreads | Amazon Sequel to last year’s “first class thriller” Maestra which sold in more than 43 countries and soon to be turned into a movie is finally out. Written by Lisa Hilton, charmingly, both of her books, Maestra and Domina are in regard of a competitor to Fifty Shades of Grey, another bestseller, but after reading, I think there’s more than Fifty Shades in her books. Her plot creation is full of thrilling effects, and a piece of her imagination equals more than just Fifty Shades.

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BOOK REVIEW: Demons in My Mind by Aashish Gupta

BOOK REVIEW: Demons in My Mind by Aashish Gupta

  Published: February, 2017 Pages: 330 Are you looking for a good read with chills and full of surprises? In fact, we all are looking for something that can give us an adrenaline rush just by turning pages. Demons in My Mind by Aashish Gupta is the one that will give you a boost this weekend. An old man in a village in Nepal is suffering from cancer and wishes to be released from the pain that comes with the disease. He requests his fellow villagers to take him to the three monks. Everyone in the village has heard about them. Everyone in this village is fascinated by the legend of these three monks through their stories of miraculous healing. […]

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Why Ego is the Enemy and You can Make a Start to Defeat it

Why Ego is the Enemy and You can Make a Start to Defeat it

Posted February 21, 2017 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Book Reviews, Books, philosophy / 0 Comments

My Rating: 5/5 Words mean things, and when certain words are repeated in certain type of situations they change behaviour and can change the course of how we live. In the book Ego is the Enemy, when Ryan holiday speaks about ‘Ego’, he does not mean the Freudian definition. He is talking about ego in an informal way, the way we used it in our casual conversations. The ego he refers are the unhealthy belief in our own importance, our arrogance, and our self-centred ambition. That desire for recognition, and those excuses we make to ourselves. This is a crucial concept to understand if you are planning to read this book.

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Top Non Fiction Books I read in 2016 Part 2

Top Non Fiction Books I read in 2016 Part 2

Hola! Welcome back to “Read in 2016” series of posts. I am glad you read the first post in the series in which I suggest you Top Non-Fiction Books I read this year, irrespective of their publication date. As, in the previous post, I discussed by motive to come out with these book lists is that to make your TBR list for next year, a bit heavy. So, I hope you are ready for some more titles. If you haven’t read the post go and read it here.

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