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BOOK REVIEW: Ikigai – The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

BOOK REVIEW: Ikigai – The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life

Posted November 11, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 2 Comments

Pages: 192, Kindle Edition Published: August 2017 by Penguin Books Cover Rating: 5/5 The positive attitude and emotional awareness of Japanese is appealing to anyone since it is directly associated with health. It is known that people of Japan have longest life expectancy in the world. Don’t we all want to live a long, and healthy life? Co-authors of this book, Frances Miralles and Hector Garcia did research on this variables and the main subject of their research was the elderly in Japan. The result is Ikigai, the book rightly titled.

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BOOK REVIEW: Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

BOOK REVIEW: Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre

Posted September 28, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

First Published: 1938 Originally titled La Nausée and published in 1938, is Jean-Paul Sartre’s first novel and an exploration of his early thoughts and ideas on existentialism that are elaborated in his later works. This book even though comes under the category of fiction is a difficult one to review. Nevertheless, this is my attempt.

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BOOK REVIEW: Become What You Are by Alan Watts

BOOK REVIEW: Become What You Are by Alan Watts

Posted September 19, 2017 by @amanhimself in Book Reviews, Books / 9 Comments

Pages: 146, Kindle Edition First Published on:  1955 Cover Rating: 4/5 Buy From Amazon This not the first Alan Watts book I have read. To read this one, I made myself familiar with his writing and philosophy by reading his other books such as The Wisdom of Insecurity (on someone’s recommendation in past) and listening to his teachings in past few weeks. It’s important to know your subject in most cases. In this case, even if you aren’t familiar with Watts’ philosophy, I’d suggest you to go ahead. However, a bit of familiarity only embraces curiosity. The title is the essence of this book, might point to another domino piece in the self-help genre but I can assure you that this […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Ignoring Gravity by Sandra Danby

BOOK REVIEW: Ignoring Gravity by Sandra Danby

Posted November 14, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

Sandra Danby’s Ignoring Gravity is a must read this winter. Danby’s gripping writing style and novel’s pace are enough to please a reader. Set in London, Rose is a journalist in her thirties working for the London Herald. She is single and has had a number of failed relationships never having met the man of her dreams. Rose has always looked after her younger sister. Her sister Lily  is married not in a happy marriage. She is simply desperate for a baby but her husband is less interested and is not happy with Lily’s obsession by healthy eating in order to encourage conception. After their mother’s death, to spare their father from the task of going through their recently departed mother’s possessions,

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FRIDAY FIVE: Five Famous Authors on Writer's Block

FRIDAY FIVE: Five Famous Authors on Writer's Block

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

Have you ever had a writer’s block? Ever experienced your thoughts, your imagination going blank? Read what these famous writer’s have to say about the most common disease among the writers called the writer’s block. “I step away from the computer and swim. I really wish someone had told me earlier that there’s a relationship between writing and exercise. Writing involves you being completely, revoltingly sedentary while your brain works overtime. But when you exercise, it’s the complete reverse – you more or less become brain dead while your body works like a bastard not to drown/collapse on the treadmill/die. Then after I exercise, I always come back to my laptop and it’s like I’m seeing the story for the first […]

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TOP TEN TUESDAY: Top Ten books of 2014

TOP TEN TUESDAY: Top Ten books of 2014

Posted June 24, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

2014 has been a mixed bag year for me in reading. I have read a variety of authors, especially a lot of new authors this time, took non-fiction seriously and some interesting books on recommendations. My challenge to myself to read 100 books this year is on track and so far, as the year comes to half, I have read 49 books. The challenge bar on the goodreads.com tells me that I am “one book ahead of the schedule” which means I am doing well. Thus, here  I am evaluating ten best reads I had so far in the year.   10. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Winner of Man Booker Prize 2009, Wolf Hall is amazing story written surrealistically from the POV of […]

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GUEST POST: Zareen Naqvi- When your mom gets engaged before you do

GUEST POST: Zareen Naqvi- When your mom gets engaged before you do

Posted June 20, 2014 by @amanhimself in Guest Post / 0 Comments

It’s always fun to get to know fellow bloggers! I’m glad I have met so many. And am longing to meet more. Thus, I thought why not invite “Guest Bloggers” to my blog and share their experience in their own words? Well here is the first one.  WHEN YOUR MOM GETS ENGAGED BEFORE YOU DO by Zareen Naqvi  First off, congratulations! Your mum snagged a fella before you. She told him to put a ring on it and he did. Unlike your ring finger, which is dry, lonely and vacant. Not to mention, without a ring.

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BOOK REVIEW: Up in the Air by Walter Kirn

BOOK REVIEW: Up in the Air by Walter Kirn

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

“Hilarious… Whip-smart… entertaining enough to rival anything by John Grisham.”  -Times Out New York Truly said. The chemistry of smart and funny is quite good in this book. There is a movie by the same title starring George Clooney, which I saw two wholesome years back, and it was the first time I ever saw Clooney on the screen. But I was not fascinated by him. In fact,  I was fascinated by Ryan Bingham’s (played by Clooney) job profile– the one who can fire other people from their jobs. Walter Kirn’s UP IN THE AIR is a unique book and one of it’s kind. Kirn’s quite witty with his words and knows how to use them and is quite practical about them. The plot is quite simple. Ryan Bingham, as […]

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TOP TEN TUESDAY: Polling Time

TOP TEN TUESDAY: Polling Time

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

Hello everyone, how art thou? Enjoying the hotness of the summer? Well I must tell you that, it’s too hot here. Almost 47 degrees. It’s like you’ll get roasted if you go out in the middle of the day. Because of the tremendous weather, books are best cool companions in this weather for me. So here is a poll for you guys, select one of your favorite fantasy book. It’s quite simple, select one of the categories and submit vote. I just want to know about my readers more, by getting to know about their love of fantasy books.

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It's MONDAY again, what are you reading?

It's MONDAY again, what are you reading?

Posted May 19, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

This Monday certainly came quite fast for me. The weekend got over faster than the light travels. Still I managed to read two books, Drive and Driven both by James Sallis last week. Today I got  Tess of D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy from my college’s library. I have this nostalgic feeling of reading something which will fill the void inside for quite a long time now. Yesterday, I even spent an hour on my laptop browsing the collection of eBooks I have but I was unable to decided on a particular title. So I thought it’d be better to read something in paperback. Also, it feels boring to me on reading on a laptop and that’s the reason I used my phone as an […]

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