Tag: Authors

HOW I BECAME A READER

HOW I BECAME A READER

Posted March 16, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

When I think back on how I became happily addicted to books and reading, I inevitably focus on three things: my mother, my first buy, and then came “the church of books”: my school’s library. Mother The whole credit of my reading habit (which turned out to be an enormous habit), or the gateway to the heaven of books was unlocked by my beautiful mother when I was a kid. I remember when she used to read to me from time to time and when I grew up, she would sit beside me and make me read and understand a lot of things. I can imagine that purely but titles we read together are vague in my memory. Somewhere I […]

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A BOOK HERE, A BOOK THERE

A BOOK HERE, A BOOK THERE

Posted March 15, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

CALL ME ISHMAEL MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville Might start it by next week, lets read what the fuss is all about!

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WRITER's BLOCK #1: Self Love

WRITER's BLOCK #1: Self Love

Posted March 9, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay / 0 Comments

A writer is a person who spends more time in reading other people’s words than writing himself. You and I are both writers in that context. But there are times when we feel tortured sitting by a desk with pen (in most cases, a laptop) in one hand scratching our head with the other and a blank page in front of us. Drops of sweat cool us down only for some milliseconds. But have you ever wondered why you cannot write? Of course, we all have. We all have been through that torment phase of inability to write. And we all call that phenomenon, a Writer’s Block. Writer’s block is that phase in which we tend to think of ourselves […]

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THE BOOK PARTY#2

THE BOOK PARTY#2

Posted March 8, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

To complete my target of reading 100 books this year, so far I have read 18. The party I gave last month was not bad but also not a successful one. The whole month was spent in hangover, day after day. The weather was pleasant last month, as well as my mood. Both reading and writing. Though I never spent much time in writing, but in reading as I feel I should have. Best example, I could manage to read only one out of three books which I mentioned earlier. The serious culprit is my own laziness. I am trying to find some ways to omit it but it seems to have a very powerful base inside my body and […]

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SURPRISE FROM HTBRUNCH: UNNATURAL CREATURES BY NEIL GAIMAN

SURPRISE FROM HTBRUNCH: UNNATURAL CREATURES BY NEIL GAIMAN

Posted February 21, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

Unnatural Creatures by Neil Gaiman Thanks to HTBrunch for motivating me to read more, by gifting this book. It’s great to be a part of#BrunchBookChallange (which I posted about, two posts back).

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A COOL HEAD BY IAN RANKIN: A BOOK REVIEW

A COOL HEAD BY IAN RANKIN: A BOOK REVIEW

Posted February 21, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 0 Comments

Ian Rankin’s A COOL HEAD is a one hour read. Very light read, just 107 pages, written for the BBC’s Quick Read series which “are designed to be read and enjoyed by avid readers and by people who never had or who have lost the reading habit”. The story starts with Gravy, a thirty-something suffering from OCD (Obsessive–compulsive disorder, that’s my guess), working at the graveyard when a flashy BMW drives up to him. From out of the car steps out a friend of Gravy’s, who’s got a bag in one hand and a hole in his chest. Unable to grasp the seriousness of the situation, Gravy thinks this is just another visit from his friend. However, when his friend’s fate is […]

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The BRUNCH BOOK CHALLENGE

The BRUNCH BOOK CHALLENGE

Posted February 20, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

I feel lucky that I have become an avid part of  #BrunchBookChallenge which is a Hindustan Times Brunch Magazine’s initiative to promote reading. The idea is to read at least 24 books in 2014. To participate one must tweet about his/her progress by tagging @HTBrunch and using the hashtag #BrunchBookChallenge. There are surely some rules to follow: 1. Unless you are a child, you cannot include children’s books.   2. No textbooks. Just so we’re clear, a textbook is any ‘manual of instruction for any subject of study’, you can’t include it. In short, your engineering/GMAT/IAS books don’t count.   3. Graphic novels are allowed, encouraged in fact. If you’re reading comic books, then one volume (or a set of […]

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CHRONCILES OF A BOOK ZOMBIE

CHRONCILES OF A BOOK ZOMBIE

Posted February 18, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, MyWorks / 0 Comments

Am I a Book Zombie? From past five days I am getting trouble in sleeping. I cannot understand, I am tired due to a lot of travelling and still I cannot sleep. Only today I realized that in past three days not only I have read three books, not only more than 700 pages but I am feeling that I want to eat a book a page by page, word by word. That’s right. I don’t know if I am reaching my extreme point of reading books (and then eventually I’ll get tired of reading) or if the reading has seriously become an obsession for me. Sounds to me like my past eight years of reading is finally paying off […]

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PAPER TOWNS BY JOHN GREEN: A BOOK REVIEW

PAPER TOWNS BY JOHN GREEN: A BOOK REVIEW

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

Paper Towns by John Green is the second book I’ve read written by him. The previous, Fault in our Stars was unimpressive to me. Though this book impresses me than the previous one in some ways but there is a unacceptable vibe about this book. I’ll start with John Green, he is a good writer there is no doubt, his skill of writing is a bit ordinary but witty and humorous. The plot and scenes he challenges himself to write are not very realistic but hey, after all this what fiction is. It’s a lie. So there is no point in arguing over the that fact as many people believe he should write more realistic but being a fictitious writer he can […]

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THE LOWLAND BY JHUMPA LAHIRI: A BOOK REVIEW

THE LOWLAND BY JHUMPA LAHIRI: A BOOK REVIEW

Posted February 11, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

After reading The Lowland in two days, not for the reason the book is easy to read. But for Jhumpa Lahiri is a natural-born storyteller. She indeed is. In this book, she introduces two brothers, close in age who are poles apart, Udayan, the revolutionary brother who gets caught up in the Mao-inspired Naxalite movement to wipe out poverty in India and his more reserved and dutiful brother, Subhash, who leaves home to pursue an academic and scientific life in Rhode Island. When Udayan inevitably gets swept into a revolutionary movement that turns out badly, Subhash returns home briefly, and picks up the pieces, including an attempt to heal the emotional scars of his brother’s young wife. As the plot goes […]

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