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4 CyberPunk Books To Read

Posted April 29, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books, Fiction / 17 Comments

Cyberpunk first came into existence around late 1970s. This particular type of genre share its boundaries with science-fiction from the start and hasn’t shy away from development during the time. In terms of books, these are titles you should take look: Neuromancer by William Gibson Artificial Intelligence in 1980s. Computer who can think and communicate with human beings as well as manipulate them in doing stuff. The story has cyberspace, data-thieves, samurai, assassins. This is 1980s we are talking about. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick This book was first published in 1968 and is still ahead of time. It’s an important piece for the type of genre.

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5 SFF Books You Have To Read This Year

Posted March 13, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 7 Comments

The world of science fiction and fantasy is booming and I came across many titles on the internet in the specific genre(s) but only few grabbed my attention. This Census-Taker by China Miéville Blurb: After witnessing a profoundly traumatic event, a boy is left alone in a remote house on a hilltop with his increasingly deranged parent. When a stranger knocks on his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation are over—but by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? Is he the boy’s friend? His enemy? Or something altogether other? Arcadia by Ian Pears Blurb: Henry Lytten – a spy turned academic and writer – sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other […]

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5 Books on Sports I read in 2015

Posted February 20, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List / 4 Comments

Other than reading books, I am passionate about football (for americans: it’s soccer) and there isn’t a year I do not find books to read and satisfy by obsessiveness of the game. Here are 5 books worth take a look: Pep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola’s First Season at Bayern Munich by Martí Perarnau This a well written insight on football coaching genius. My Rating 4 out of 5 The Nowhere Man by Michael Calvin The book shines rays on the hidden world of one of the most important roles in the game of football, Scouts. My Rating 4 out of 5 Another Bloody Saturday by Mat Guy This is a book celebrating all that is great with the game […]

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5 Books on “Writers and Writing” I read in 2015

Posted January 16, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List / 4 Comments

Today’s book list is based on the “art of writing” which I have read this year. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott I know, most of you know about this one, and I regard this book as one of the best on the art of writing I have read so far. My Rating 5 out of 5! To learn about the craft of writing is from the masters. Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors does provide some insight on writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. My Rating 4 out of 5 The book, How Proust Can Change Your Life has the most fascinating subject: Marcel Proust. My Rating 4 out […]

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5 books I read on “Reading Books” in 2015

Posted January 8, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List / 16 Comments

Reading is a fascinating activity but a very time consuming one. The time spent in reading books is though worth if you learn from the books you are reading. If you are not, leave it and better pick another. That’s the good thing about reading books. You are never out of options. So here are some books on the art of reading: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin My Rating 5 out of 5! The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs My Rating 4 out of 5!

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Best of Confessions of a Readaholic 2015

Posted January 4, 2016 by @amanhimself in Book List / 1 Comment

It’s time to look back upon the best of Confessions of a Readaholic 2015- ‘best’ being the composition of articles you read and shared most and those I took pleasure in writing. What to Learn from Dante’s Inferno? Read the article here The Unknown van Gogh Read the article here Marcel Proust on Reading and Dying Read the article here

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3 Non-Fiction Books I read in 2015

Posted December 24, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List / 0 Comments

Some times fiction isn’t enough to get accustomed to a subject deeply. One has to read non-fiction book and yes there are some non-fiction books which are written with quality writing and posses good amount of knowledge on a specific subject. Zero to One by Peter Theil. You just have to read this though provoking book. My Rating 5 out of 5 In The Plex by Steven Levy- Steven Levy is one of the best non fiction writers. This time he tells us the working of our daily lives one of the biggest asset: Google. My Rating 4 out of 5 Leading by Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz. Even though this book is written from football point of view, it’s good book […]

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5 Crime Fiction Novels I read in 2015

Posted December 17, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List, Crime & Mystery / 6 Comments

I love reading Crime Fiction novels. They are intriguing, a dynamic pace is maintained by most of the authors in their works and they are often surprising. Hanging Garden is Rankin’s complete novel and is 9th John Rebus novel, and becomes more fascinating. My Rating 5 out of 5! It’s winter and what will be better, if not be in Russia. At least Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 can take us there. Stalin’s Soviet Union, a paradise in books but not in reality. This thrilling novel is the first of Leo Demidov’s trilogy. My Rating: 4 out of 5 Another gripping novel, full of thrill and after reading it, there will be some amount of adrenaline rush left inside you. Girl on […]

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5 Classics I read in 2015

Posted December 10, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List / 25 Comments

To know what an ultimate pleasure sometimes a book written at least a hundred years before, or more, is known only to those who read them. There is a reason why these books are still surviving, generations after generations. Thus, here are five classics book that I read this year and I think are worth taking a look again. Middlemarch is George Eliot’s magnum opus. The 800 page novel, it took me almost 9 days to finish reading it. Eliot’s writing is witty and sublime. This book examines multiple themes such as the role of education in the lives of characters and how it affects them. And as Virginia Woolf said, “The magnificent book that, with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels […]

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Five Books To Read in Gothic Fiction

Posted September 19, 2015 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books, Goth / 13 Comments

Gothic Fiction is struggles and conflicts. It may be largely dominated by its sub genre, Gothic horror, but this genre is equally dominated by romanticism. The name Gothic refers to the medieval buildings in which many of these stories take place. This extreme form of romanticism was very popular in England and Germany. I exhibit a list of books down here in this genre I think you should take a look. Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature’s hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the […]