500 posts feel like little piece of milestone. I wasn’t looking to this when I started blogging. Blogging has definitely changed my life Blogging has definitely changed my life in these ways: Its a door that leads to many more doors. It gave me my first opportunity to get published as poet. Blogging has help to revive my reading habit and stick to it no matter what.
In terms of blogging, 2016 was a wonderful year for this blog and me. What I did the whole year? Well, I read books, blogged about them, met new bloggers, and read their intriguing blog posts.
Recently, Confessions of a Readaholic underwent a minor revamp. The old boring text on About Me page now has been replaced with this infographic: There is some text but hopefully, now it won’t bore you. For more visit: About Page
Today, Confessions of a Readaholic underwent a revamp. It was necessary. Two tiring hours were spent on selecting the theme, the one you are currently viewing. I guess, it was worth it. There were some major changes I had to look through, changing the theme was one. The reason I switched from 3-column view to 2-column is responsiveness of the site itself. It enhances the mobile/tablet view and I am sure some my readers had problems going through this blog on their handy devices. Myself had trouble opening this site in mobile with previous theme. Few times it lead to humiliation. But I accepted that humiliation because I could not find a theme that could satisfy the appearance of blog site and myself. […]
In 1934, a young man who wanted to be a writer hitchhiked to Florida to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. Only because he read a story by Hemingway in Cosmopolitan, called “One Trip Across”, he traveled all they way from Minnesota to Florida. This young man soon becomes Hemingway’s assistant on a pay a dollar a day. He advised this young man to avoid contemporary writers and compete only with the dead ones whose works have stood the test of time and made him a list of two short stories and fourteen books and handed over to this young man. The list: “The Blue Hotel” by Stephen Crane “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Dubliners by James Joyce The Red and […]
Recommended by many, read by me, and the conclusion? Not so good. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield is develop in a “self-help” book way that makes a reader to confront about disease of not working, procrastination. I appreciate author’s effort as he starts off with a high node, by making a reader realize the evil and withdrawing power of resistance. He goes on explaining the causes of why we resist to work and it is our conscience which is blocking our creative mind. He then describe ways to overpower the evil of resistance and to continue to do our work. That’s the only positive point I found through […]