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BOOK REVIEW: SOCCERNOMICS

BOOK REVIEW: SOCCERNOMICS

Posted January 12, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews, sports / 0 Comments

Soccernomics by Simon Kuper & Stefan Szymanski Anything interesting to read comes in the market about football(or soccer) and being a football fan, it’s like a love at first sight. Soccernomics is the first book that tries to data-mine most of the haughty topics in football. Two authors tries to pair football and statistics and seem very fond of proving themselves by applying some methods which in the end might turn out (or in some case did turn out) right. Majority of the book focuses on big events like FIFA World Cup and European Football Championship. The book is framed chapter by chapter in the form of multiple questions. The authors then to answer these questions, use game results, demographic studies, attendance statistics, […]

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FRIDAY FICTION: CURRENTLY READING

FRIDAY FICTION: CURRENTLY READING

Posted January 3, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments
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THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY 2013

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY 2013

Posted December 31, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

Still 39 minutes left as I am writing this post. I am much obliged to a lot of things this year that I am not going to waste the precious time listing them. But most precious things to me are books. And yes, each and every I try to read more and more, and I try to learn and explore new things through them. And till now I have been successful. It is fun that this year that I set a target of reading 100 books but could not achieve it, still I manage to read 78 of them. I am also hoping to overcome this number next year with reading more and more. I also learnt a lot in […]

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LAST DAY BUYS

LAST DAY BUYS

Posted December 31, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

Last day of year 2013 and some more books!

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365 DAYS, 77 BOOKS! NOW NEW RECOMMENDATIONS

365 DAYS, 77 BOOKS! NOW NEW RECOMMENDATIONS

Posted December 30, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay / 0 Comments

The year 2013 is ending pretty fast for me. Only two days and 40 minutes left. Earlier this year, from day 1, I set a target for myself. Target to read 100 books in 365 days. But I guess, I could not complete it. It was a battle against time, and only a time lord could have won. I am no time lord. But I am happy also, as I could read 28 more books than the last year. So somehow, it is an achievement for me too. This year has been a wonderful reading year for me. I feel I have grown as reader, as my knowledge and my ability to understand and grab literature has grown. Reading is beneficial, always. And I got […]

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BOOK REVIEW: THE NAMESAKE by JHUMPA LAHIRI

BOOK REVIEW: THE NAMESAKE by JHUMPA LAHIRI

Posted December 26, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 6 Comments

The Namesake, was on top of my Christmas holidays book-shopping. I have been waiting for a long time to read it. I haven’t read much of the South Asian origin’s authors, but I certainly did enjoy Jhumpa Lahiri. Her command of the language is amazing. The fluency of her writing clearly shows how effortlessly she must have wrote the book. Her captivating manner of writing is what enthralls me. In a nutshell, the story starts in the form of an immigrant experience. Ashoke and Ashima are first-generation immigrants to the US from India, and they do not have the easiest time adjusting to the peculiarities of their new home and its culture. Gogol, the protagonist, is their son who is tasked with living the double […]

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NEW BUYS- HOLIDAYS SPECIAL

NEW BUYS- HOLIDAYS SPECIAL

Posted December 24, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

KIM BY RUDYARD KIPLING THE NAMESAKE BY JHUMPA LAHIRI AN UNACCUSTOMED EARTH BY JHUMPA LAHIRI

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BOOK REVIEW: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

BOOK REVIEW: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS

Posted December 23, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

I have been trying to read this books from past five months(when I first heard about it) and this weekend, I finally took a step forward. When I am reading a good book, it doesn’t take much time for me to finish that book. The Fault in Our Stars, beautifully written, light-read and fast-paced book, by John Green. This is my first piece of John Green’s writing and I must say I am impressed by his style and lightness of the book. The book’s about Hazel Grace Lancaster, and how a book about a cancer sufferer which brings two sufferers close. The other sufferer being Augustus Waters. But there is some fault in the characterization. John’s characters, Hazel Grace and Augustus, sound more like […]

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BOOKS ON THE SHELF

BOOKS ON THE SHELF

Posted December 20, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

I’ve got four new books on my bookshelf right now. Which to start is getting hard for me right now.

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'SOME' SORT OF FICTION

'SOME' SORT OF FICTION

Posted December 20, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay, MyWorks / 0 Comments

“You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Don’t worry. You don’t have to be depressed right now. ‘Cause Fiction does not have to be serious all the time. It can be of ‘anything’. It has many kinds too. But only two general kinds of modern fiction are recognized as: Category or Genre Fiction and Mainstream Fiction. Category fiction includes science fiction, suspense, mystery, erotica, Gothic and writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain were two category fiction writers. Mainstream writers like Ernst Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that kind of fiction which does not fit comfortably into one category fiction. Best example of mainstream fiction is Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. A newbie […]

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