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BOOKS from the 80s LIST

BOOKS from the 80s LIST

Posted November 20, 2014 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

The Eighties, saw great social, economic, and general change as wealth and production migrated to newly industrializing economies. More football games followed by the introduction of personal computers somewhat with, graphical user interfaces. The 80s also introduced us to the Rubik’s cube and Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses. Here is a list of books from the 80s:   The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 1980 “The Name of the Rose” is a philosophical mystery set in an Italian monastery in 1327. The abbey contains the greatest library in Christendom, but its treasured books are locked up within its labyrinth of a library. Why do the monks hide the same books that they preserve? Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981

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BOOKS ON INSOMNIA- LIST

BOOKS ON INSOMNIA- LIST

Posted November 16, 2014 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 9 Comments

I had a similar situation of insomnia, a few years back. I used to put the lights out, as everyone did at home, get cozy in the bed and try myself to sleep. The land of dreams was a faraway fairyland to me then. I just could not sleep. Weeks passed by, and it was still me, alone in my bed, staring out the radium covered hands of minutes, hours, and seconds (in that order) of a wall-clock facing my bed. Sometimes it was 3 a.m., sometimes it was 4 and sleep was extra-terrestrial. Then in those struggling days of getting some sleep, I really got into reading books. It started with the habit of reading before going to bed (I thought I might get sleep […]

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BOOKS From the 70s LIST#

BOOKS From the 70s LIST#

Posted October 21, 2014 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

If Sixties was the “cultural decade”, the Seventies refer to the rise of the economies. Though revolutions, wars and disasters continued, seventies saw the development of new technologies especially in modern computing. Microwave oven, VCR, and cell phones arrived which in today’s world, in an advance form, are a big part of our lives. Literature continued to grow as new writers with new books grabbed readers attention, then and now. Love Story by Eric Segal, 1970 Erich Segal’s  magnificent novel will grab you, hold you, and stay  with you forever. You, like million others, will fall in love with Love  Story. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, 1971 Considered as a classic among spy-thriller genre. The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the […]

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FIVE BOOKS TO READ IN OCTOBER- LIST#3

FIVE BOOKS TO READ IN OCTOBER- LIST#3

Posted October 3, 2014 by @amanhimself in Book List, Books / 0 Comments

Being lost in books for whole month, September ends pretty soon for me. The weather is moving forward in the welcome the winter and I am moving forward to read more books and welcome new book releases this month. Let’s get started. Below I include a list of five books to look out for in this month. Pen & Ink: Tattoos & the Stories Behind Them, Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton Based on their Tumblr blog of the same name, BuzzFeed Books editor Fitzgerald and accomplished illustrator MacNaughton team up to find the real reasons people get tattoos. Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love For New York, edited by Sari Botton Remember when Botton’s first collection, Goodbye to All That: […]

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TOP TEN TUESDAY: Ten Books to read in the time of the World Cup

TOP TEN TUESDAY: Ten Books to read in the time of the World Cup

Posted June 17, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, sports / 0 Comments

The summer has become hotter with the start of the FIFA World Cup 2014. Four days already and more than 40 goals in groups stage fixtures. Yesterday, Germany was fun to watch though. Thus, in the time of this major event, I have concluded a list of ten football (soccer) books a reader ( also a Football Nerd) can read when not watching the fixtures. The Damned Utd by David Peace Extraordinary sport’s writer, David Peace’s extraordinarily inventive novel tells the story of a world characterized by fear of failure and hunger for success set in the bleak heart of the 1970s. Soccernomics by Simon Kuper & Stefan Syzmanski Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology, and business to cast […]

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