Genre: Contemporary

BOOK REVIEW: Keeping Up with Kaneda by Gaurav Kumar

BOOK REVIEW: Keeping Up with Kaneda by Gaurav Kumar

Posted July 26, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Fiction / 0 Comments

Keeping up with Kaneda is Gaurav Sharma’s debut in the world of fiction. It is a short novella, the published work being only 130 pages long. The plot is about the author’s experience in Canada where he went as a student. Living in a different country that is not your native land can be an amazing experience but it does come with some hardships. These hardships are not speaking the native language, finding work, expenses and money, food, etc. To overcome these hardships, the narrator of the story picks on a few  part-time jobs in the process of residing there. Thus, the story tries to explore a deeper meaning in all these, a theme that few writers try to do […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Longest Ride on the Kincham Express by Divya Johry

BOOK REVIEW: The Longest Ride on the Kincham Express by Divya Johry

Posted May 1, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Divya Johry’s latest book The Longest Ride on the Kincham Express is a contemporary fiction about five travelers. It is a tale that summarises different human aspects in one journey that seems long enough. Thus, making the plot of the book intriguing. The plot includes five characters: Amaaya, Sujoy, Neil, Mihir and Trisha who are chosen by their organization to embark on a journey with a task of accomplishing by travel back along with a criminal baba. The plot is interesting from the start when a reader is being introduced to these different personalities without much knowledge of what they were chosen to do. Each personality shows different traits throughout the book by not agreeing as unibody on the matters […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Bend Your Knees and Do Your Best by Kalyani

BOOK REVIEW: Bend Your Knees and Do Your Best by Kalyani

Posted April 29, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Fiction / 0 Comments

Debut work of author Kalyani, Bend Your Kneed and Do Your Best is based up on real-life drama of person who has devoted their whole life to one thing. To get happiness in the corporate world. On reading I deciphered its theme, as one grows old, feeling of losing faith and uncertainty strikes harder than one can imagine. The plot starts with the introduction of our protagonist’s life who is as a senior professional in an IT organization. Her traits include her focus on the task at hand and her nature of not following the risky path that few do in this type of work. From a very young age, our protagonist has a strong belief that the God acts […]

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BOOK REVIEW: South of Main Street by Robert Gately

BOOK REVIEW: South of Main Street by Robert Gately

Posted February 20, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

South of Main Street written by Robert Gately is a contemporary novel set in small-town Pennsylvania which explores the intangible ties that form a family, a community and the influence that one man can make crossing social and economic lines.

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BOOK REVIEW: Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

BOOK REVIEW: Into The Water by Paula Hawkins

Posted July 22, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Published May, 2017 by Riverhead Books Pages: 352, Kindle Edition This could have been the thriller of the year, just like The Girl on the Train, the successful book that came and took our breath away in 2015 which still holds the same essence and qualities of its genre and the power to grab the attention of a reader from page one. On reading Paula Hawkins new book, I do not feel the same.

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BOOK REVIEW: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

BOOK REVIEW: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Posted May 8, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 14 Comments

Reading INFINITE JEST was a task waiting to be done for quite a long of time. Reading INFINITE JEST in an Ebook format, is another task altogether. I searched for the paperback copy of Infinite Jest in more than ten big stores all over the city I live in. It was a shame, none of them were responsible enough to have at least a single copy. It took me two days to find the best possible solution until I decided to go with the e-formatted copy on my phablet. I considered ordering it online, but that just depletes the awe in which you are in when you want to read a book so badly. Also, the online process would have taken at least twelve days, by […]

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THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P. by ADELLE WALDMAN: A BOOK REVIEW

THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P. by ADELLE WALDMAN: A BOOK REVIEW

Posted February 7, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

Before starting the review, I’d like to thanks @HTBrunch Magazine for making this review happen through their #BrunchBookChallenge in which you have to read just 24 books to complete the challenge. For making me read a book by an author who knows exactly how to put some relevant words between more words. I met Adelle Waldman’s highly acclaimed The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. a best book of the year 2013 by The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Beast, The Guardian (UK) and many more. Being a debut novelist and having a strong reading-background, having read Jane Austen, George Eliot, Balzac, and Tolstoy, Waldman through her words has a eerie talent of describing women through a man’s eyes. When I had […]

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THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU: A REVIEW FOR THE BALLS ON FIRE

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU: A REVIEW FOR THE BALLS ON FIRE

Posted August 31, 2012 by @amanhimself in Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

This is Where I leave You Author:Jonathan Tropper “This is where I leave you”, is a salve for every family. It was just a hitchhiker for me. A hilarious book, no doubt about it, but consist of a bit of snobbery. The novel begins when Judd Foxman is completely down in the dumps, because of the knowledge that his wife, Jen, has been unfaithful to him. Tropper has written a completely sympathetic character going through a very tough time without making him pathetic. Each person in this book, even the secondary characters, leaps off the page. Foxman clan is completely ridiculous. The Foxman siblings and their mother are a selective bunch who grow emotionally as they are brought together physically to sit Shiva […]

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