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BOOK REVIEW: Liespotting by Pamela Meyer

BOOK REVIEW: Liespotting by Pamela Meyer

Posted April 28, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

“I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful. If I’m on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I’m going, I’m liable to say I’m going to the opera. It’s terrible.” -J. D. Salinger, The Cather in the Rye Being human and being able to communicate and understand each other with our spoken or written words, might make us feel superior in front of other species. We can be on the top of the food chain, the IQ chain and all other chains as much as we want. But I am must tell you, when it comes to ‘lying’, we are at the bottom of that chain. I believe […]

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GUEST POST- She Stands Aloof by Kendi Gloria

Posted April 26, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 0 Comments

She Stands Aloof by KENDI GLORIA She stands aloof, the sun is adamant on making her feel its presence. It is well past evening, yet it is still intent on piercing through the clouds with its ray and its optimism. Perhaps symbolic that she needs a little more optimism. It refuses to neither set nor leave the moon to its domain. She sees the train from far. It looks like a stream of water from the taps. Nay, water flowing from a dam. It dangles playfully on the railway line, making sounds that seem like mourning, for the weight it carries. It clunks and clatters, “ching”.  When the train finally stops, she is thankful to her gods because she now has a valid excuse […]

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Guest Bloggers WANTED

Guest Bloggers WANTED

Posted April 14, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 0 Comments

Hi Guys, How are y’all doing? I am looking for five Guest Bloggers for the posting months June to October, one for every month. I have already hosted three guest bloggers this s year, and I feel connecting with fellow bloggers is working well for me. Here the bloggers and their blog posts: Hán Ruì yà– Living in the Language Silently AVINASH GUPTA– The Joy of Discovery SHWATE TANEJA– Five Procrastinations of Writing For Contact Details on the Guest Blogger Program see here. Feel free to contact me.  

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Four Books To Read in April 2015

Four Books To Read in April 2015

Posted April 10, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

Here are four titles releasing this month that I am waiting for: Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish. From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels—a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Find Me by Laura van den Berg

BOOK REVIEW: Find Me by Laura van den Berg

Posted April 6, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Dystopia, Reviews / 0 Comments

Laura van den Berg’s debut novel FIND ME is a rare novel. You won’t find it on everyone’s bookshelf, and if you do, make a plea to let you read it, stop everything, and start reading. In this, you explore a dystopian future in which the major cause is an ‘epidemic of forgetting’— a disease that begins with memory loss and silver blisters on the skin. FIND ME is a gripping, imaginative, with some grim fun elements, tale of a young woman named Joy Jones who is a grocery store clerk working outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past, when the epidemic starts. Abandoned by her mother in winter when she was a baby, Joy grew up […]

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22 Things I Learnt By The Time I Turned 22

22 Things I Learnt By The Time I Turned 22

Posted March 27, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List / 0 Comments

Source When I turned 22 a few months back, nothing extra ordinary happened. I got up as usual, and spent my day while reading a book, as usual. But I did make a list of 22 things which I by putting enough effort or not, have learn by that day.  1- Be honest to yourself. 2- First things are always messy but that doesn’t mean it can’t be good. 3- Read books, plenty of books. 4- Self-love and Selfish are two different words representing two different meanings. 5- Go to the movies you want to watch, even if you have to go alone. 6- Experiment with your hair as much as you can, because it’ll grow back eventually. 7- There are more than 7 billion people in this […]

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GUEST POST- Five Procrastinations of Writing by Shweta Taneja

GUEST POST- Five Procrastinations of Writing by Shweta Taneja

Posted March 21, 2015 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 0 Comments

Five procrastinations in writing and how to strike them down by SHWETA TANEJA Writers are natural born procrastinators. We all know that feeling, the one which comes just before you actually start to write: Let me have another cup of tea, another day, another book, another little salty chip and then I will start. When I began my journalist career more than a decade ago, I was sure I couldn’t write an article. It took me five years of wanting to write fiction, a Master’s degree, two failed novels and millions of procrastinating moments to finally do something that all blogs, all writers keep suggesting: write. After a year of stalling, I started to write fiction and once I did, I couldn’t […]

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Awarded Top 15 Books Blog in India

Awarded Top 15 Books Blog in India

Posted March 7, 2015 by @amanhimself in Awards, Books / 0 Comments

It does feel good when you are appreciated for the work you love to do. For me, it’s always about Confessions of a Readaholic. I appreciate all readers who from their precious time, do spend some moments here. Recently, I was awarded a second place in TOP 15 BOOK BLOGS in my native land, India, by a gorgeous website called Baggout.com.   I am not bragging ’bout myself or something. I just want to thank you all for making me earn it.

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Poetry- Wraith of Myself

Poetry- Wraith of Myself

Posted March 5, 2015 by @amanhimself in Uncategorized / 0 Comments

In a distance I can hear a howl With the fall of the rain, howl is supported Tonight is a lonely night And he stands beside me like a ghost Not listening to what I hear, melonchically.   Under the terrible light I cannot see somebody else It’s all misty there Until the mist Itself tends to takes a shape The shape of myself.   At that troubled end I try to get adjacent I see smoke ash arranged in a motif Later on the ashes gather in the shape The shape of myself.

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Book Review: How Proust Can Change Your Life? by Alain de Botton

Book Review: How Proust Can Change Your Life? by Alain de Botton

Posted March 3, 2015 by @amanhimself in Reviews / 0 Comments

Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life? tries to find an inspiration and explore various themes out of Proust’s essays, letters, and his fictional work. It’s a clever book with an amusing  and an evoking title. No prior knowledge of Proust or his epic, seven volume novel In Search of Lost Time is necessary in order to read and enjoy this book but after reading it, half of you will go for the first volume of In Search of Lost Time if you haven’t read Proust’s work before. How Proust Can Change Your Life?  reflects not only on Proustian philosophy, but the way Proust’s life (as an habitual hypochondriac and Mama’s boy) was almost comically at odds with his logical ideas. Proust had a curiously inspiring vision […]

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