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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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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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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 BOOK PARTY

THE BOOK PARTY

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

As being a READAHOLIC(and no, I don’t drink alcohol while reading),today, I am organizing a party with books for books. I’ve got 3 books to read this month. And I don’t think I’ll be reading more than two of them this month. I have read this month, till now, only two books in comparison to last month in which I read ten books. First, I want to thank NetGalley and Random House Publications for giving me the opportunity to read The Weight of Blood by LAURA McHUGH which has an expected publication date on March 11, 2014. I am certain that I will fulfill my job of complete reading it and giving a faithful and honest review back to the publishers. Second, is Paper […]

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THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P. by ADELLE WALDMAN: A BOOK REVIEW

THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NATHANIEL P. by ADELLE WALDMAN: A BOOK REVIEW

Posted February 7, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

Before starting the review, I’d like to thanks @HTBrunch Magazine for making this review happen through their #BrunchBookChallenge in which you have to read just 24 books to complete the challenge. For making me read a book by an author who knows exactly how to put some relevant words between more words. I met Adelle Waldman’s highly acclaimed The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. a best book of the year 2013 by The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Beast, The Guardian (UK) and many more. Being a debut novelist and having a strong reading-background, having read Jane Austen, George Eliot, Balzac, and Tolstoy, Waldman through her words has a eerie talent of describing women through a man’s eyes. When I had […]

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SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE by IAN RANKIN- A BOOK REVIEW

SAINTS OF THE SHADOW BIBLE by IAN RANKIN- A BOOK REVIEW

Posted January 31, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Crime & Mystery, Reviews / 0 Comments

There is no doubt why Ian Rankin is one of the best crime fiction writer in all over Britain. And Certainly John Rebus is the “Sherlock Holmes” of modern crime fiction. Or I should say in clear words, certainly the best detective of modern crime fiction. The enigma which surrounds John Rebus is the essence a reader reading Rebus must feel. And Ian Rankin maintains that enigma, that aroma of mysteriousness consistently. He is doing for past 19 books. Not one Rebus I read, and felt discomfort. This is an art and Rankin is the master of this art of consistency in storytelling. I was once disappointed and sad when I read Exit Music which was once the last book […]

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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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