Tag: 2017

BOOK REVIEW: Reading People by Anne Bogel

Posted May 22, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Pages: 226, Kindle Edition Published: 2017 by Baker Books Cover Rating: 4/5 Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes is the latest written flick by Anne Bogel. The title is so cliched and attractive at the same time that I decided to pick this book last week. For those of you, likewise me, are unaware of who is Anne Bogel, well, she is a blogger who excessively read books and share stuff like #bookstagram on her blog Modern Mrs. Darcy.

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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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BOOK REVIEW: The Truth and Lies of Ella Black by Emily Barr

Posted April 7, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction / 2 Comments

If you are looking for a young adult fiction with a potential to blow your mind as a reader, The Truth and Lies of Ella Black by Emily Barr might be for you. This book captivated me at the start. This is my first time reading Emily Barr’s work and it did demonstrate me how much potential her writing has to lure a reader in one of her worlds. The story is intriguing in many ways. It is a fast-paced plot about a seventeen-year-old Ella Black who lives with her parents but suffers from multiple personality disorder. Although she is calm and loving, her second personality is equally destructive in nature. One day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Mountains to Manhattan by Pinakie Kansabanik

Posted March 13, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Fiction / 1 Comment

The stories that explore harsh realities always fascinate me. Mountains to Manhattan is a book about Tibetan immigrants to India after the invasion of Red Army. What more fascinated me about this book is that the author has narrated the whole story by opting the opposite gender. The plot revolves around a young, and smart Tenzin Lhamo who was labeled as a refugee before she was born. After the invasion of Red Army her mother, aunt and grandmother had to leave Tibet and settled in India. But did the Indian government did not grant them citizenships and there was a fake hope in their hearts that one day they will be able to go back. With restrictions and no passport, […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Blasphemy Law by Salman Shami

Posted March 10, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction / 0 Comments

The weaving of a thriller is an art and not many have mastered it. To find that thrill for a reader in a book that promises such an element is hard to find but Salman Shami’s The Blasphemy Law is an addition to the genre. The plot is set in modern Pakistan, a country charged with political corruption in name of religion does already create a thrill in itself. An Australian engineer, Jane Kelly, is on a verge of providing electricity in remote villages of central Punjab through installing solar panels. A ruthless landowner uses terrorism to frame her for blasphemy in the Islamic country, an offense that comes with a death penalty. He plots her execution and along with […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Hack the Entrepreneur by Jon Nastor

Posted March 2, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Jon Nastor is a famous podcaster by the name of Hack the Entrepreneur which shares same title as the book. I picked this book because I read somewhere about it in which they mentioned as quote from Nastor that no body is born an entrepreneur. It is sort of a skill plus lifestyle that you have to create, build around and live. Though after picking up this book, I can say, there are some inspiring moments mentioned in this book.

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BOOK REVIEW: Based on Lies – It Begins by Debarshi Kanjilal

Posted February 24, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Based on Lies: It Begins is the first in a series of two novellas published in 2017. The main element used in this novel is of psychological thriller following the life of Anuraag Sanyal, the protagonist of the novella. The writing certainly displays the dark corners of an imaginative mind. The plot starts with the protagonist sitting in the middle of the night, suffering from insomnia writing in his notepad about the event of his past life. The storyline somewhat follows this pattern and a reader gets to see the Anuraag’s present too. He is having a troubled marriage for five years and had a lover in past, and one as a nearby cafe owner. Each new chapter decipher a […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Book of My Life by Abhishek Vincent

Posted February 22, 2018 by @amanhimself in Authors, Book Reviews, Books / 0 Comments

Abhishek Vincent’s debut The Book of My Life: A True Love journey was released in late 2017. Full of emotions, and deciphering feelings page by page both of the character and the reader, it is a book not to be missed if you are a fan of romance fiction or like to read good heartwarming stories.

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BOOK REVIEW: Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk

Posted February 16, 2018 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

Most of the Vaynerchuk books are like a personal pep talk. They’d be about money, hard work, work, and his majority focus is on passionate living. I have been following his vlogs on YouTube for months and that what lead me to read his books

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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.