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TOP TEN TUESDAY- TOP TEN AUTHORS OF 2013

TOP TEN TUESDAY- TOP TEN AUTHORS OF 2013

Posted December 17, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay, MyWorks, Reviews / 0 Comments

With Top Ten Tuesday meme, I going to discuss Top Ten Authors I read in the year of 2013. I’ll start with number 10, MA JIAN, which I picked up randomly and was impressed by his style and the structure and organization of the context, though the length of the book, The Dark Road, was quite extensive. But in the end, I was glad I picked him up, and his style is unique and might seem satisfying to a reader if he reads Jian for the first time. The number 9 spot, I’ll give to GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, whose books I was trying to avoid from quite a long time but couldn’t resist anymore so I surrendered and I must say the series, A Song of Ice and Fire, is an impressive epic […]

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BOOK REVIEW: THE NAME OF THE WIND BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS

BOOK REVIEW: THE NAME OF THE WIND BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS

Posted December 16, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

They say, writers should write what they love and Patrick Rothfuss seems to do so. He love stories. Telling them is one thing but to live and tell them is astonishing. And how a writer can live in the stories?… By his imagination. Imagination is infinite. You certainly don’t have to pay for it. It is legal to use. And it’s the best thing a human has got, I believe.  The Name of the Wind . At first, I never wanted to read it. But then, when strongly recommended by one of my friend, I borrowed his copy and read it. Now I can say, I can’t wait to read the second.  The Name of the Wind  introduce us to Kvothe, a figure which is hard […]

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A REAL WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

A REAL WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Posted December 12, 2013 by @amanhimself in Essay, MyWorks / 0 Comments

It’s been past two days since I have been at home. It’s like I may have over relaxed, may have over slept, or over eaten… ’cause I am not getting any words in my head. And also, I am not able to read not more than 100 pages a day of the book I am currently reading. I am depressed. Is this a writer’s block? Is it this how it is? It makes me feel sick. But then, why not reading is helping me. Is there also a reader’s block? If there is, then I am sure dead. I won’t be able to survive the dishonesty of daily life without reading. I will be doomed. Become a slave may be. […]

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THE WIT OF WRITING

THE WIT OF WRITING

Posted November 14, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay / 0 Comments

Right ho, then. To start a story is the most dashingly difficult task for any writer. To establish an atmosphere, as they say, is a vexation in itself. You have to make it perfect, otherwise if you went too long or too short for a start your audience will be smoking joints of boredom instead of cigarettes. You know your boat has sunk before it left the shore. Sometimes there are more cigarette butts in my dustbin then words on the paper resting itself with a blank face. The obligation of a writer is to satisfy his audience and have the stamina to complete his work with wittiness. Wittiness I said, otherwise it would be another one of those in […]

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CURRENTLY READING

CURRENTLY READING

Posted October 25, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

THE MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS TOO MUCH by Allison Bartlett MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Sir Alex Ferguson

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BOOK REVIEW: THE BOOK THIEF

BOOK REVIEW: THE BOOK THIEF

Posted October 16, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak The extraordinary New York Times Bestseller for 230 weeks must be on your reading list this year. This book is a treasure, a modern classic I would say. Set during the time of Nazi Germany and World War II, it tells the story about a foster girl, Liesel Meminger with a fine and an extraordinaire narrative by Death. The narration was one of the reasons I picked this book due to the immense curiosity, I can say I am completely satisfied and I have read after along time, a totally satisfying book. It leaves with a mysterious thrill which is hard to define in words and can only be experienced if you read it. The book is very well structured. It seems […]

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A SHORT JOURNEY OF A BAREFOOT

A SHORT JOURNEY OF A BAREFOOT

Posted October 9, 2013 by @amanhimself in Essay, MyWorks / 0 Comments

On an early August morning, wandering alone on the crispy and crumby dead leaves I felt sharp rays of sun appearing betwixt the naked branches of trees. The trees appeared as some broken mannequins, their faces totally blank in aspect to show an expression that if ever a brainy mind ever groom in them or do they have brainless mind already? I felt even if I stand all day long and just stare them, they will still be blank just like the current state of humanity. People don’t react on the consequences and events they should but they do overreact on when they should show least of the interest. Squirrels were hovering hither and thither trees to hide themselves beneath […]

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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: A REVIEW

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: A REVIEW

Posted October 3, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, classics / 0 Comments

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by THOMAS HARDY The more I read, the more I realize that a book should be wrought with a special physiognomy but also it should be astonishing. Far From the Madding Crowd is one example of the aforesaid. This was my first book of the author Thomas Hardy, his poetic way and his way of portraying a scene gives a reader the feeling repletion. Many a times, the reader would be astonished by the way of illustrations Thomas Hardy provides in this particular title. The way he pulled images, I was bewitched by his art. Far from the Madding Crowd is basically the story of Bathsheba Everdene and how her three suitors affect her life. Looking at the protagonist Bathsheba Everdene, considering her […]

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BOOK REVIEW: MISTRESS by JAMES PATTERSON & DAVID ELLIS

BOOK REVIEW: MISTRESS by JAMES PATTERSON & DAVID ELLIS

Posted September 19, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 0 Comments

This was my seventh James Patterson’s book and I would say he writes better when he is not co-authoring. There were times when I read his Alex Cross‘ series or Women’s Mystery Club series and when I read his Private series or the Mistress. The difference would be in front of you. The difference is like between the day and the night. This fact may be true that he has sold more than combining Stephen King, Dan Brown and John Grisham, also, 19 consecutive No. 1 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds The New York Times record for most bestselling hardcover fiction titles by a single author but books like Mistress, it feels gone are those days when James Patterson was a real Page turner. It is just not […]

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BOOK REVIEW:THE SEA AND THE SILENCE

BOOK REVIEW:THE SEA AND THE SILENCE

Posted August 8, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

The Sea and the SILENCE  by PETER CUNNINGHAM The Sea and the Silence is a beautifully written historical fiction by Peter Cunningham. It is one of those books that you don’t appreciate the craftsman until you read it. I got an ebook format of it, a few weeks back on my Kindle application from Amazon. This historical novel set in Ireland, spanning the years from WWII to the 1960s, the story is chiefly about Iz, the daughter of a cash-poor but land-rich Anglo-Irish aristocrat during a time when the IRA was “taking back” Ireland. The novel is broken into two parts, the first entitled ‘Hector’ and it encompasses the years of Iz’s marriage. There’s not too much Irish history in this part, rather it is […]

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