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BOOK REVIEW: A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

BOOK REVIEW: A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Posted August 2, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 32 Comments

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens  is a book full of quotes. It is the book, in which the lines must be quoted and not para-phrased. I remember first picking up this book when I was fifteen but never finished. Until last year, when I finished the book. Charles Dickens has been a very important personality in my life. I got to know him when i was thirteen when I remember reading Oliver Twist which had an impact over me at that time. Dickens characters always has never failed to amaze me but A Tale of Two Cities is all about the storyline which is set during era of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. It is a story of love, betrayal, […]

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Monthly Recap- July

Monthly Recap- July

Posted July 31, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books / 3 Comments

This post is all about what was posted this month on Confessions of a Readaholic. Book Reviews              Author Interview Amrita Chatterjee Guest Post How Reading Dissolves Reality and Reconstructs Structures by Snigdha Nautiyal Book Lists Chris McCandless Reading List Top Ten Books in 2015- A Half Yearly List Essay Buying Books I Don’t Read

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BOOK REVIEW: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

BOOK REVIEW: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Posted July 19, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 27 Comments

Despite all the criticism the book will continue to receive in coming days, months, and years, I think you should read Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee if you have read To Kill A Mockingbird. I cannot argue about the timing of the publishing of the book. I think it is fair that it got published after fifty-five years of Lee’s first novel and I am curious about what would have happened if this book would have published many years before. The story starts as Jean Lousie, twenty-six years old, returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus Finch, now seventy-two and crippled by arthritis. Considered as the sequel the book is set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions […]

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BOOK REVIEW: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

BOOK REVIEW: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Posted July 4, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 25 Comments

Haruki Murakami was a front-runner in Nobel Prize in Literature when the book 1Q84 released. He is one of the most admired novelist of contemporary world. Already been honoured by Kafka Prize, his best books, in my opinion, are Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood and Pinball, 1973. Murakami’s 1Q84 is an immensely long book, paged more than nine hundred and originally published in three volumes in Japanese. The English edition combines all three volumes as a single copy. This book is combination of a love story, a mystery, a fantasy and a dystopia. The title indeed is similar to George Orwell’s 1984. Murakami’s writing is at its best when he writes a simple plot through suspenseful story telling. Though 1Q84 is not a simple book. […]

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BOOK REVIEW: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

BOOK REVIEW: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Posted June 27, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 51 Comments

David Copperfield  by Charles Dickens is considered to be the most closest work resembling Dickens life. It is autobiographical. is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. There is a funny anecdote related to this book. At the time when I was reading David Copperfield, a friend of mine tells me that the first book Sigmund Freud gave his fiancee, Martha Bernays, on their engagement in 1882. At the moment, I wanted to question his anecdote but I thought it otherwise. I said to myself, ‘Why not read this 900 pages book and find the answer to that ‘why’ myself?’ And indeed I did. […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Witch Of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

BOOK REVIEW: The Witch Of Portobello by Paulo Coelho

Posted June 17, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Fiction, Reviews / 28 Comments

I hardly ever read Paulo Coelho books. I was disappointed by his world-renowned book The Alchemist. And then came The Aleph. But there is one book, one book that is different from every other Paulo Coelho’s book. The Witch of Portobello. It is a very different form of a book. It requires your full attention and you will be pleased. It is the only Coelho’s book I am ever going to recommend to you. This the story of Athena, a mysterious woman, the story itself told by many different flesh entities who knew her or did not know her at all. She was born in Romania and her parents, a successful industrialist family of Beirut adopted her, as their much-loved, much-wanted daughter, who grew in wisdom and […]

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BOOK REVIEW: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

BOOK REVIEW: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Posted June 15, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, classics, Reviews / 11 Comments

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is written in 1892 as journal of a woman who failing to relish the joys of marriage and motherhood, is sentenced to a country and is forbidden by her doctor and her husband to write. The novella can be regarded as the an autobiographical work of the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She was a prominent figure during the first-wave feminist movement in the United States. Much of her life’s work was influenced by the experiences of her early life. Narrated by an unnamed protagonist, the journal records are basically a reality of the protagonist’s own beyond the hypnotic pattern of the faded yellow wallpaper, a pattern that has come to symbolize her own imprisonment. Gilman formulated her protagonist’s […]

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BOOK REVIEW: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Huff

BOOK REVIEW: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Huff

Posted June 9, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 17 Comments

84, Charing Cross Road, published in 1970, is constructed from a collection of correspondence between the author, Helene Huff and with the  employees of Marks & Co., a London bookseller, a used-book store in England. What initially starts as very much a business correspondence, between the rather outspoken Hanff and the more reserved employee of Mars & Co., Frank Doel, from October 1949 becomes a friendship through letters and a love of books that lasts over twenty years. Having seen an advert for Marks & Co, describing them as specialists in out-of-print books, Hanff wrote to them with a wish list of titles she’d been unable to acquire in New York. “I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in […]

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Book Review: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Book Review: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Posted January 28, 2015 by @amanhimself in 5 Stars, Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

“What in life is more personal than books?” -Gabreille Zevin The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry is a stunningly written piece by Gabrielle Zevin, it’s a love letter to all the books ad readers. It displays a great example of the fact that a reader’s life is closely melded together with written words in the form of books. On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the Victorian cottage is the motto “No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World.” A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner, is about to discover just what that truly means. A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore […]

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BOOK REVIEW: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

BOOK REVIEW: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Posted December 26, 2014 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 0 Comments

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer My rating: 5 of 5 stars “For a few minutes the roof of the bus remains visible among the stunted trees, a tiny white gleam in a wild green sea, growing smaller and smaller, and then it’s gone.” –Into The Wild In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless but he liked to call himself ‘Alex Supertramp’. Before, Christopher McCandless’s story unfolded in these pages, Jon Krakauer wrote an article for Outside magazine from where the initial idea to develop this book came to him. Six years back, I watched a documentary on […]

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