Tag: E-book

'SOME' SORT OF FICTION

Posted December 20, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay, MyWorks / 0 Comments

“You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Don’t worry. You don’t have to be depressed right now. ‘Cause Fiction does not have to be serious all the time. It can be of ‘anything’. It has many kinds too. But only two general kinds of modern fiction are recognized as: Category or Genre Fiction and Mainstream Fiction. Category fiction includes science fiction, suspense, mystery, erotica, Gothic and writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain were two category fiction writers. Mainstream writers like Ernst Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that kind of fiction which does not fit comfortably into one category fiction. Best example of mainstream fiction is Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. A newbie […]

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TOP TEN TUESDAY- TOP TEN AUTHORS OF 2013

Posted December 17, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Essay, MyWorks, Reviews / 0 Comments

With Top Ten Tuesday meme, I going to discuss Top Ten Authors I read in the year of 2013. I’ll start with number 10, MA JIAN, which I picked up randomly and was impressed by his style and the structure and organization of the context, though the length of the book, The Dark Road, was quite extensive. But in the end, I was glad I picked him up, and his style is unique and might seem satisfying to a reader if he reads Jian for the first time. The number 9 spot, I’ll give to GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, whose books I was trying to avoid from quite a long time but couldn’t resist anymore so I surrendered and I must say the series, A Song of Ice and Fire, is an impressive epic […]

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BOOK REVIEW: THE NAME OF THE WIND BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS

Posted December 16, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

They say, writers should write what they love and Patrick Rothfuss seems to do so. He love stories. Telling them is one thing but to live and tell them is astonishing. And how a writer can live in the stories?… By his imagination. Imagination is infinite. You certainly don’t have to pay for it. It is legal to use. And it’s the best thing a human has got, I believe. The Name of the Wind . At first, I never wanted to read it. But then, when strongly recommended by one of my friend, I borrowed his copy and read it. Now I can say, I can’t wait to read the second. The Name of the Wind introduce us to Kvothe, a figure which is hard […]

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A REAL WORDLESS WEDNESDAY

Posted December 12, 2013 by @amanhimself in Essay, MyWorks / 0 Comments

It’s been past two days since I have been at home. It’s like I may have over relaxed, may have over slept, or over eaten… ’cause I am not getting any words in my head. And also, I am not able to read not more than 100 pages a day of the book I am currently reading. I am depressed. Is this a writer’s block? Is it this how it is? It makes me feel sick. But then, why not reading is helping me. Is there also a reader’s block? If there is, then I am sure dead. I won’t be able to survive the dishonesty of daily life without reading. I will be doomed. Become a slave may be. […]

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CURRENTLY READING

Posted December 10, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

Currently Reading Books: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Highly recommended by a friend, after I was disappointed on learning that Game of Thrones next part will not be coming soon. Already on page 145 and it’s quite a book. The style is good, plot and story till now good, not filled with boredom at all. Let’s see, what the rest of the pages unfolds to me. Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury is again a recommendation by a fellow writer. I have read just five pages so I cannot really say how is it. But still short in length, light reading, after all it’s Bradbury. I am always eager to read more and open to recommendations. So what do you […]

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How I welcome the winter!

Posted December 10, 2013 by @amanhimself in Essay / 0 Comments

Ah, the month of November went pretty fast for me. The later half of the month, I still can’t believe it existed. It’s been over a month since I had read something or wrote something(Of Course, except in the examinations). “Examinations! Examinations! Examinations!”, right now it sounds like “Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!” in the voice of Daleks. It was kind of a Dalek-phase I was passing through. I still hope that the time lord will come and will take me back in time, back to the mid of last month. But then I’ll be in the Dalek-phase all over again. And I’ll still be reading text books instead of ‘Real Books’ writing exams instead of poetry. Due to this phase, I feel I will not be able […]

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BOOK REVIEW: HITLER’S DAUGHTER

Posted November 5, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

HITLER’S DAUGHTER By Jackie French Hitler’s Daughter is an impressive book. The title of the book is in itself is a wonder and a seed of curiosity. Short length, one day read I would call (though due to lack of time, I made it in three days). I got this book randomly when I was hovering around the internet for I had this unsatisfied urge to go for book-shopping for months. Due to it’s length I picked the book though after reading it I realized it could have been a little more longer for the words just flow through your mind as the book is simply written. The book certainly aims at younger readers and it was interesting to see Hitler from […]

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CURRENTLY READING

Posted October 25, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books / 0 Comments

THE MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS TOO MUCH by Allison Bartlett MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Sir Alex Ferguson

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BOOK REVIEW: THE BOOK THIEF

Posted October 16, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak The extraordinary New York Times Bestseller for 230 weeks must be on your reading list this year. This book is a treasure, a modern classic I would say. Set during the time of Nazi Germany and World War II, it tells the story about a foster girl, Liesel Meminger with a fine and an extraordinaire narrative by Death. The narration was one of the reasons I picked this book due to the immense curiosity, I can say I am completely satisfied and I have read after along time, a totally satisfying book. It leaves with a mysterious thrill which is hard to define in words and can only be experienced if you read it. The book is very well structured. It seems […]

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BOOK OF THE WEEK: FATHERS AND SONS

Posted October 12, 2013 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Fiction, Reviews / 0 Comments

FATHERS AND SONS BY IVAN SERGEYEVICH TURGENEV Set in Nineteenth Century Russia, Fathers and Sons by I. S. Turgenev takes us the estates and agricultural fields – among the rural gentry and their peasants. It portrays two different sons and fathers deal with the changes happening around them. The book starts when Arkady returns home from school with his friend Bazarov, who is a nihilist, to the home of his father, Nicholas. His uncle Pavel also lives there. Nicholas is trying to stay with the times and has set his serfs free, but his estate has fallen into disrepair. He also has been having a relationship with a former servant, Fenichka, and has fathered a child. My experience in Russian Literature is quite […]