Category: Guest Post

Guest Post – The Girl with Golden Highlights by Harsha Sheelam

Guest Post – The Girl with Golden Highlights by Harsha Sheelam

Posted April 12, 2018 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 1 Comment

I’m sure you would agree that this story has a happy ending. She was hardly any older than 6 years when her parents, living in a small town of rural India physically abused her, kept her devoid of education and made her do household chores. Now, when I say they belonged to ‘India’, I can hear judgments and pictures of slums thrown at me. No, India’s literacy rate is at 74.04% and also boasts of a few largest companies in the world. Now, let’s go back in 2012 when I came across a little girl. I still don’t know her name, but let’s call her Meera.  Meera was born in Haryana, she lived there with her parents. Today, she doesn’t […]

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GUEST POST: My experience with AudioBooks by Crafty Reader

GUEST POST: My experience with AudioBooks by Crafty Reader

Posted January 23, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post / 12 Comments

Audiobooks isn’t a very new trend. It is a rather a new commercial trend. I first came across the very idea of audiobook when I was watching the movie The Reader(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976051/). In the movie, Hanna couldn’t read or write but loves listening to stories. So, throughout her life, her lover records readings of books and mails them to her. Of course, by the time movie was released, audiobooks were already in the market but not as popular as they were are now. Yet, it was still a curiosity and alien idea to me, until a few days back, when I planned on reading 120 books in 365 days.

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GUEST POST: Marianna's Five Favourite Books

GUEST POST: Marianna's Five Favourite Books

Posted August 20, 2017 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post / 0 Comments

“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.” – Neil Gaiman OK. Five books? Really? Out of the hundred I read this year alone…I know it is a little bit extreme but what is life without challenges! Hello guys and welcome to the countdown of my five favorite books that I have read through the years. I will try to give you as much information about each novel without any spoilers. This is after all a wormbook-friendly post. Shall we begin?

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Guest Post: To make a writer by Peter Gray

Guest Post: To make a writer by Peter Gray

Posted May 26, 2017 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post, Non-Fiction / 0 Comments

Telemachus, how did it come about? For someone who has spent a long career treating Thoroughbred horses – for everything from infertility to racing performance – the transformation to writer has been a long, unlikely and tenuous road.  I started dabbling with a pen back in the Seventies, realised it wasn’t a natural talent of mine, but doggedness convinced me to continue.  I read a lot of fiction, but always with reservations about copying style or ideas.  It was my aim, if I might ever succeed, to have a voice that would be distinctly my own and I didn’t want to steal anyone else’s ideas – even subconsciously.  So I muddled on and the efforts weren’t very good; if I […]

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GUEST POST: Joanna Paterson

Posted November 20, 2016 by @amanhimself in Authors, Guest Post / 0 Comments

My two books of short stories, “The Old Turk and Other Tales” and “Through the Mirror”, examine that tricky balance between experience and the spiritual world that anyone—and the author—would encounter or like to encounter. There are realms which take us beyond ourselves—and I like to explore them. Short stories should stimulate thinking—they are always potentially true. So many of them lose themselves in the usual earthbound stories about romance and the twists and turns of people in love, but I tried to go beyond those confines to involve spiritual worlds. The short stories I wrote are phantastic in the sense that they treat the unseen as a vital encounter, but engage with it as a possible extension of the […]

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GUEST POST: Do E-books Allow Us to Read Books Properly?

GUEST POST: Do E-books Allow Us to Read Books Properly?

Posted October 22, 2016 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post / 0 Comments

Do E-books Allow Us to Read Books Properly? by Cassie The popularity of e-books has grown over the years. It’s no surprise why e-readers have taken off. You can store thousands of books on a single, easy-to-carry device. Top authors now offer both print and digital versions of their novels. Interestingly, paperback sales have increased by 2.5 percent in 2015. In comparison, e-book sales actually dipped 11.1 percent. With that said, many readers have no qualms reading either format. Still there are a few who strongly prefer one over the other. Perhaps you are a die-hard paperback supporter. Or maybe you prefer the digital format. Whichever you prefer, there are definitely positives and negatives of e-books.   Advantages of E-books There’s no doubt e-books have changed the way people read, both good and […]

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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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GUEST POST- Welcome to the City of Joy by Nilesh Rathod

GUEST POST- Welcome to the City of Joy by Nilesh Rathod

Posted April 21, 2016 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 3 Comments

Welcome to the City of Joy by Nilesh Rathod India is a republic of laughable samples. With that I mean, people, and in that I mean government. They can construe scrupulous ways to invent obstacles, in places you cannot even imagine they can exist. Armed with a liberal dose of faith in a resurgent India, I took a flight to the famed city of Kolkata, the erstwhile head quarter of British East India Company. And trust me when I say this, but it still looks like one, and without the necessity to board any kind of time travel capsule. It would have taken less effort to modernize the city, than the energy spent on preserving it to be the museum […]

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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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GUEST POST- Gun Control by Richard Rensberry

Posted December 26, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 5 Comments

Time flies, doesn’t it. Well, this the 12th and the last guest post of the Guest Post program I started earlier this year. Next year, I won’t be conducting this ones a month activity. But if anyone is interested in writing as a Guest for Confessions of a Readaholic, drop an email. Gun Control by Richard Rensberry The recent developments on the gun control front have me scratching my head.  Those who will be violent will be violent whether that have a gun or not.  Gun control is the wrong target when it comes to lessening acts of violence, it only serves to create its counterpart; unchallenged and unrestrained violence.  Just look at the unrestrained violence that happened recently in Paris as proof […]

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