Category: Guest Post

GUEST BLOG: Feed Your Brain by Janita Lawrence

GUEST BLOG: Feed Your Brain by Janita Lawrence

Posted November 23, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post / 10 Comments

Feed Your Brain by Janita Lawrence I want to stick a fork in my eye when people tell me they ‘love reading’ but just don’t have the time. Life is so bloody exciting with all this sitting at my desk and looking at the Facebook and the Twitter. I get it. Who has time for anything anymore? I want to take you (firmly, but not unkindly) aside. Your brain is starving, I want to say.Your brain is like the carnivorous plant in the Little Shop of Horrors. I know all that! I can hear you yelling from behind your smarty-pants handheld devices. I know it’s good for me but where do I find the TIME? Well, here are some lifestyle hacks that will up […]

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GUEST POST- A Little About Me by Susanne Leist

Posted October 19, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 1 Comment

A Little about Me by Susanne Leist I was asked to contribute an article to a fellow author’s blog. At first I panicked. I didn’t know what to write about. I’m a listener. I listen to other people’s stories. I’m a good listener. I don’t like speaking about myself. Therefore, I don’t like to write about myself. But now that I’m a writer, I have to move into the spotlight. I’ve done a few interviews on fellow authors’ blogs. Their questions helped to serve as guidelines. Now I have a blank page to deal with. Should I write about why I had decided to become a writer? I don’t think so. It has been done to death by writers. I […]

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GUEST POST: How Numbers Can Tell Stories by Aubrey Leaman

Posted September 22, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 4 Comments

How Numbers Can Tell Stories by Aubrey Leaman So let’s talk about math! I know, I know…as readers we tend to hate math, right?  But Francie Nolan (from Betty Smith’s novel, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”) has a passion for both words and numbers and in fact combines the two in creative ways:    “When Francie added a sum, she would fix a little story to go with the result…The figure 1 was a pretty baby girl just learning to walk, and easy to handle…Each single combination of numbers was a new set-up for the family and no two stories were ever the same.”     When I read this passage (of which I’ve only quoted a small amount here), I was blown away […]

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GUEST BLOG- At Swim-Two-Birds by Emmie

GUEST BLOG- At Swim-Two-Birds by Emmie

Posted August 20, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 10 Comments

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien (post by Emmie) How would it feel to be a literary character? I’ll admit, At Swim-Two-Birds wasn’t an easy book to read. The first time I tried it I only got halfway before I gave up. I hardly understood a word of it. Nevertheless, I would like to argue that it is an amazing novel. It took me a very thorough second attempt (differently coloured pencils in hand) to unravel the ways in which this book plays with literary conventions, crosses intertextual boundaries and blurs different layers of reality. At Swim-Two-Birds is a novel of many levels. It begins with an unnamed student who enjoys inventing stories. He creates the author Dermot Trellis. Trellis then […]

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GUEST POST- How Reading Dissolves Reality and Reconstructs Structures by Snigdha Nautiyal

GUEST POST- How Reading Dissolves Reality and Reconstructs Structures by Snigdha Nautiyal

Posted July 25, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Guest Post / 5 Comments

Distorted Dimensions and Warped Space: How Reading Dissolves Reality and Reconstructs Structures  by Snigdha Nautiyal It is strange really, how easy it is to write on my own blog and how nail-bitingly nerve-wracking to think of something good when you’re writing a guest post! This is my first and for weeks now I’ve had absolutely no idea how to capture the elusive bird of an idea that was floating around in my head. So I decided to just dive in and pretend I was talking to myself (that’s what bloggers do, anyway). The world of fiction, with all its truths and untruths, appeals to something ethereal within us. It is hard to call the love of books anything else but a worship […]

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GUEST POST- The Reading Troubles by Alex

Posted June 21, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 11 Comments

THE READING TROUBLES by ALEX  Everyone who loves reading has to go through these reading troubles, once a while.  But since we love books too much,  we are willing to adjust. So, I’m going to list all those and ask you something regarding it. Withering Books are as precious, beautiful and delicate as flowers. So just like flowers,  they wither too. Just look at your copy of your favorite book. As many times as you’ve read it,  the book has suffered. The bind is bent, pages are folded. It’s in bad shape, no doubt. But what can we do? We have read it so many times. The proof shows on the outside. Which is the book on your shelf that is […]

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GUEST POST- Mrs P’s Journey by Matthew Ruddle (A Book Review)

GUEST POST- Mrs P’s Journey by Matthew Ruddle (A Book Review)

Posted May 24, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 15 Comments

Book Review: Mrs P’s Journey by Matthew Ruddle Mrs P’s Journey by Sarah Hartley Phyllis got lost in London. We’ve all been there. Lost in a big city, trying to find that little, hidden gem a friend told us about, going around in circles, walking down the wrong side street, and ending up in a dead-end. We retrace our steps, double-check the street names, and somehow, accidentally, find our destination. Finding your way around an American city, for example, isn’t too bad, due to the way the streets are set out in a systematic grid system, but in older European cities, like London, the streets are unpredictable and haphazard, with complete disregard for logic or common sense. These days, help […]

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GUEST POST- She Stands Aloof by Kendi Gloria

Posted April 26, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 0 Comments

She Stands Aloof by KENDI GLORIA She stands aloof, the sun is adamant on making her feel its presence. It is well past evening, yet it is still intent on piercing through the clouds with its ray and its optimism. Perhaps symbolic that she needs a little more optimism. It refuses to neither set nor leave the moon to its domain. She sees the train from far. It looks like a stream of water from the taps. Nay, water flowing from a dam. It dangles playfully on the railway line, making sounds that seem like mourning, for the weight it carries. It clunks and clatters, “ching”.  When the train finally stops, she is thankful to her gods because she now has a valid excuse […]

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Guest Bloggers WANTED

Guest Bloggers WANTED

Posted April 14, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 0 Comments

Hi Guys, How are y’all doing? I am looking for five Guest Bloggers for the posting months June to October, one for every month. I have already hosted three guest bloggers this s year, and I feel connecting with fellow bloggers is working well for me. Here the bloggers and their blog posts: Hán Ruì yà– Living in the Language Silently AVINASH GUPTA– The Joy of Discovery SHWATE TANEJA– Five Procrastinations of Writing For Contact Details on the Guest Blogger Program see here. Feel free to contact me.  

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GUEST POST- Five Procrastinations of Writing by Shweta Taneja

GUEST POST- Five Procrastinations of Writing by Shweta Taneja

Posted March 21, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 0 Comments

Five procrastinations in writing and how to strike them down by SHWETA TANEJA Writers are natural born procrastinators. We all know that feeling, the one which comes just before you actually start to write: Let me have another cup of tea, another day, another book, another little salty chip and then I will start. When I began my journalist career more than a decade ago, I was sure I couldn’t write an article. It took me five years of wanting to write fiction, a Master’s degree, two failed novels and millions of procrastinating moments to finally do something that all blogs, all writers keep suggesting: write. After a year of stalling, I started to write fiction and once I did, I couldn’t […]

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