THE BEST NOVEL I HAVE READ IN A LONG TIME HALFWAY UP THE MOUNTAIN was not my first chocie as I flipped through the books at the ‘Indian Author Fiction’ section at Media Mart in Mumbai Airport. I was looking for ‘The deliberate sinner’ a book published and promoted by JayentaKumar of Srishti publications. It… Read More »
Thank you NISTHA TRIPATHI (The author) for reaching out to me and sharing this book ‘SEVEN CONVERSATIONS’. Truthfully speaking, in the normal course of life, I certainly would have missed out. I would have failed to pick this and the loss would completely been mine. That is for the content not the format or the… Read More »
OK. If it was not for the media pressure , pre-launch hype and the ad in TOI, I may have not picked another Chetan Bhagat novel. I did pre-order, not because I was worried that 200 Asian elephants will be sold-out but to get over it soon. Remember EAT THE FROG early… Read More »
So what is love and Is love and sex the same thing. What is Lust and how is that a part of the growing teenagers life. How differently male and female brain works when it comes to LOVE and SEX. What can happen to you, incase you do not differentiate abetween the… Read More »
The message is simple ‘Our goal in world should be; learn to love’ which has been delivered through a somewhat self-reflection and journey of a woman. She at the start feels lonely, afraid that the things will change and more afraid that the things would remain the same’. She meets her ex or rather the… Read More »
Ravinder earlier two books- ‘I too have a love story’ and ‘Can Love happen Twice’ were really nothing much to talk about. They were simple- quite honest but lacked twist and the power to keep you glued on. So picking up ‘Love Stories That Touched My Heart‘ was definitely risky. Being an anthology with a… Read More »
THINK TWICE – Harnessing the power of COUNTERINTITUTION by Michael J. Mauboussin is a sharply focussed book. What makes it interesting is the way it shows you the possible reasons : why you must THINK TWICE?. Then follows it with sharply defined MISTAKES you could be making in reaching your decisions inferences. At the end… Read More »
‘ I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find that there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is ‘ : Albert Camus ( 1913-60) At Dainik Bhaskar group. Pradeep Dwivedi picked the book ‘For God’s Sake: An adman… Read More »
I must have some Masochist tendencies picking books interesting enough but needing deep involved reading. Thank god I am no longer part of the 50 Book Challenge. NUDGE is the FIRST BOOK I have read this year. Book 1 in 55 Days !. FOR YOU READING THIS REVIEW WILL SUFFICE. So this read cover book… Read More »
For a person who believes that his career has been made on people behaving irrationally a title like ‘the Upside of Irrationality’ : The unexpected benefits of defying logic at work and at home- by DAN ARIELY was enough of a reason to pick the book, WIN WIN – may not always be a WIN… Read More »
