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Books betiding into Movies in 2015- Part 2

Books betiding into Movies in 2015- Part 2

Posted February 17, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

In the last post “Books betiding into Movies in 2015- Part 1“, I offered you a list of eight books that are going to be some wonderful movies this year, or at least I hope. Well here are few more. Me Before You Release Date: Aug. 21 I think this book is one of the most popular books of the 2014, though I it’s still in my TBR list. In this love story, young Louisa forms a bond with Will, the paralyzed man she is employed to help. Emilia Clarke (yes the Targaryen) is playing Louisa. Frankenstein One of my favourite book from the pile I read last year. Another added to ‘must see movies list’. Daniel Radcliffe will play Igor, the hunchback assistant […]

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Books betiding into Movies in 2015- Part 1

Books betiding into Movies in 2015- Part 1

Posted February 11, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

This post is especially dedicated to my not so book-loving-but-movie-loving friends. I’m concluding a list below of books that are turning into movies this year. I want you to read them before you watch them. Every year many of the movies that I watch and like are surprisingly based on books. I always like the idea of reading a book that is soon turning into a movie. After reading the book, when the movie comes out, I compare the visualisation shown in the movie with my imaginary visualisation of that book. Insurgent Release Date: March 20 | Watch Trailer Divergent Series fan, mark your calendars. I remember watching it, I felt it did a good job even though I am not a fan of the […]

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WHAT James Franco Reads?

WHAT James Franco Reads?

Posted November 26, 2014 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

When I first saw James Franco on the screen in Oz the Great and Powerful, I though.. hmm… okay. And went off to home without giving it a second thought. Next time I hear about him, he’s out with a book! “What?!” And the book is no memoir of his living days in movies or his nights with women. The book’s a collection of stories, a bit cult. I am talking about Palo Alto, set among the Californian streets where Franco spent his own childhood. I remember giving it three out of five but the book was a professional piece of work and I admire his literary voice in that. Next thing I get to know is, he’s done an English major with […]

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FRIDAY FIVE: Five New Books to read this August

FRIDAY FIVE: Five New Books to read this August

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

There are so many books releasing this month. Some of them are looking interesting and torturing my curiosity. Some have attractive titles while some have eye-catching covers. But here I am putting down a list of five books that I think are worth reading for you and me both. For the sake diversity (#WeNeedDiverseBooks), I try to pick one from different genres. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami Why?: This one is  straight forward and considered light in comparison to his recent works. Though it’s still 400 pages.

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TUESDAY TOP TEN: 10 Stories to read at The New Yorker

TUESDAY TOP TEN: 10 Stories to read at The New Yorker

Posted July 22, 2014 by @amanhimself in Uncategorized / 0 Comments

The New Yorker relaunched its website yesterday with complete makeover signifying the first step in the magazine’s new focus on the web. Part of that initiative is the magazine’s decision to open up its archives to the general public for the next three months. Until the website puts up its metered pay wall sometime in the fall, the New Yorker editors will be releasing curated collections of stories periodically. I am pulling out with a list of Ten Stories that I have read since the archives are free to access (and yes, I tried not to sleep as I had the intention to read all the stories in the archives but being a human I finally dozed off) and I think you should take a […]

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FRIDAY FIVE: Five ways to stay creative on a weekend!

FRIDAY FIVE: Five ways to stay creative on a weekend!

Posted June 27, 2014 by @amanhimself in Uncategorized / 0 Comments

Today is Friday, tomorrow starts what most of us seek. The mighty weekend. Either we can get dull on weekends, or we can be productive, it’s up to us. To do any of the both, mere creativity is always needed!  Thus, I am showing you five ways to be creative to do so.   1. Get away from the computer Go somewhere, where your heart takes you. But please leave the desk, you have spent all your week in front of that flat bright screen, suffering from a god-knows-what syndrome or wrist cramp due to excessive use of keyboard. Give your hands a rest. Do something else. 2. Surround yourself with Creative people We all have some friends, who are creative. Hangout with […]

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Travel Diary: Hauz Khas Village, a little Brooklyn in New Delhi

Travel Diary: Hauz Khas Village, a little Brooklyn in New Delhi

Posted June 22, 2014 by @amanhimself in Essay / 0 Comments

No, Hauz Khas Village is not the most populous area of New Delhi, but it’s certainly a mini-Brooklyn. Though it’s been twenty and one years, I have been living in Delhi, I have never seen such an inspiring place in this city of djins. But yesterday, a friend of me took there and I must say, I fell in love with the place. It’s a paradise for an artist to revive, and you get everything there, the yummy food (multi-cuisines), the art, the inspiration and the peace. What more an artist needs? Hauz Khas is one of the more affluent neighborhoods in South Delhi, and is named after an ancient water reservoir by the same name. Hauz means ‘water tank’ (or lake) and Khas means ‘royal’, giving it the meaning, the ‘Royal […]

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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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SUBMISSIONS FOR THE MAGAZINE: GRAFFITI

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE MAGAZINE: GRAFFITI

Posted January 24, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, MyWorks / 0 Comments

Hello! Fellow Bloggers and Writers, We (Graffiti Team) are coming out with a magazine by the end January 2014. Though Graffiti was just a college magazine, few years before, and is one of longest running magazine of NIT(National Institute of Technology) Kurukshetra, this time we are going online. We are not just a college magazine anymore and our intended audience is the whole world. We will be publishing not more than 300 copies in paperback for the internal  publicity through our college and nearby places but we are also publishing online. This will be our first online issue which will be free to download. Our magazine is intend to be literary. We are covering fiction, poem, comic strips, book and movie […]

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