Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts

Aug 29, 2013

Day 17 – “Keys” Book Review by Nandiki Deka

In my previous post there was a mistake, there isn’t just one angel, there are many. Another one, Nandini Deka has agreed to share some of her review with us too.

Nandini Deka is a professional musician and an author based out of Mumbai in India. She has a wonderful blog named Nandini Speaks.

Under her blog “Nandini reviews” she has several interesting reviews. I choose to share her latest review. Review of “Keys”. I haven’t read this book. Keys by Santosh Joshi is a non-fiction published in 2013 by Santosh Joshi Foundation.

The book summary is as follows – “You will realize that no matter what experiences you had in the past or what your present circumstances are, you still have immense potential to achieve your life goals. It is never too late to begin. This book introduces the HLP principle which will launch you towards them. It will help you heal and resolve your past memories which are pulling you back most of the time. It will encourage you to find your true calling and work towards it. It will also motivate you to plan your journey towards the ultimate destination, your dreams. KEYS is for all those who have lost their true self in today’s rat race, those who have faced failures or gone through traumas, those in search of their purpose and those looking for inspiration to excel in life. This book is an opportunity to become the change you wish to see in yourself.

Read Nandini’s review of the book here - http://nandinireviews.blogspot.in/2013/08/keys-book-review.html

Read Day 16 review of Man's search for meaning here

Aug 28, 2013

Day 16 – “Man’s Search for meaning” Book Review by Jini Fernandez

I was almost on the verge of giving up my project after 15th day while I planned to write 30 reviews under my project 30 days 30 books.

But this world still has it’s set of angels. I just got one. Jini Fernandez, stumbled upon my blog for the first time and was more than kind to share some of her reviews with me and other readers here.

I pick Jini’s review of “Man’s search for meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl because that one made me want to read this book as soon as possible.

A straight from heart review, crisp and informative, Jini presents the book to us. I have never come across the book but in her words “No wonder the book is popular. And its popularity made me browse it in a jiffy.”

Her review of this book has given me a to-read book on my shelf, I hope you like it too. Read the full review of “Man’s Search for Meaning” here - http://jini-fernandez.blogspot.in/2013/08/mans-search-for-meaning.html

Read Day 15 review of Chanakya's Chant here

Aug 27, 2013

Day 15 – Chanakya’s chant by Ashwin Sanghi

We have read, seen and understood Chanakya’s political lessons for generations. Aspiring kings and kingpins want to follow his principles and lessons. But that was more than 2300 years ago. We do not have the arthveda or Chanakya.

Think of comparing Chanakya’s notes with modern day politics – read Ashwin Sanghi’s “Chanakya’s Chant”.

Aug 25, 2013

Day 14 - The fault in our stars by John Green

Although I am once again three days late with my project 30 days 30 books and already running out of suggestions for reviews, I am hoping that I’ll be able to finally complete the project on 30th day.

For Day 14 of my project, I am reviewing a book that I just read. “The Fault in our Stars” by John Green was published in 2012.

Aug 21, 2013

Day 13 - Calvin and Hobbes - Reviewing the best comic strips ever

Did you read Calvin and Hobbes ever? Well! I have. And not only read it but read it like bible. I have read Calvin and Hobbes at least five times and can still read more. That’s why I decided to bring you my review of C&H for Day 13 of my project 30 days 30 books.

Over 3000 comic strips illustrated daily by genius Bill Watterson which revolved around the craziest eight year old “Calvin” and his stuffed tiger “Hobbes”.

Aug 20, 2013

Day 12 - Review of "The Hungry Tide" by Amitav Ghosh

Think of a story set with Sunderbans in backdrop. Enchanting, magical, captivating…

Amitav Ghosh’s sixth writing “The Hungry tide” published in 2005 can be called all of the above and more.

The story revolves around Piyali Roy, a young marine biologist who lands in Sunderbans with a series of bad incidents to search for Dolphins in Bay of Bengal, Fokir, a local fisherman who saves her and Kanai Dutt, the acting translator and the narrator of most art of the story.

Aug 19, 2013

Day 11 - The Last Lecture reviewed by Richa Singh

Today is my lucky day. Actually it is my best luck day. It has just been one of the best. I had an awesome time at work today (which is rare for Mondays).
Second, when post work I opened my blog I had a surprising number of readers and comments.
Then I started reading blogs by others and came across a wonderful review by Jaideep on Love is Vodka. I dropped him a line asking if I could share it for my project 30 days 30 books and he instantly agreed and encouraged by saying that I should make it 30 days 60 books.
Lastly, Richa dropped me a message saying that she had just finished the review of a book.

So Yes! I finally reach Day 11 of the project (which is today) with a wonderful review of The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch reviewed by Richa Singh.

There two special parts of this post is that it is done by my favorite blogger “Richa Singh” and it is a review of one of my favorite books.

Day 10 – Love is Vodka reviewed by Jaideep Khanduja.

While I am so busy celebrating my readers, I am really not getting time to write a post for my project 30 days 30 books. Therefore, I stalk all book reviewers, give them my best smile, a pleading look and a virtual hug and make them agree to contribute to the project.

Well some of them are so sweet that they promptly agree to write or share a post and make up for one day of my project.

One such contributor is Jaideep Khanduja. Today he has graciously allowed me to share his post on “Love Is Vodka by Amit Shankar”

Aug 17, 2013

Day 9 - Shiva Trilogy by Amish

Day 9 of my project 30 days 30 books covers the trend-setter, bestselling, award winning Shiva Trilogy.

The three parts of trilogy are –
1. Immortals of Meluha
2. Secrets of Naga
3. Oath of Vayuputra

I had read these books after much reluctance. It was my sister who kept nudging me and then eventually a friend who got the book, kept it in my hand and requested to read only first 50 pages of the first book.

Aug 16, 2013

Day 8 - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Here is the Day 8 post of 30 days 30 books. I am running a day behind so I will try to write two reviews today. I feel at times that I might just give up because of no time or energy.
Once again, I request my co-bloggers to send me your reviews if you have any so that I can share them on some days.

For Day 3 – I shared Shrinidhi’s review of “How I braved Anu aunty” which you can read here.

Most of you would realize that I am not really reviewing the latest books. I review books that I liked, or left an impact on me. Books that I recommend.

So the book today is a very special, my favorite “Tuesdays with Morrie” by “Mitch Albom”.

Day 7 - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Day 7 of my project 30 days 30 books is covering a book that I have read more than once. I find this book to be my support system.

What – Reading Lolita in Tehran
Why – An exceptional tale of courage and determination

I found this book on the counter of full circle while I paid for my purchases and saw a high recommendation note along with it. For those who are regular at full circle for their book supply knows that the full circle recommendations are worth a thought, I bought the book at impulse.

Aug 15, 2013

Day 6 - The other side of human love by Richa Singh

Technically today is the eight day and I am running late by two days. On top of it I am making an exception from the given list and reviewing a book that I have read through the day.

I don’t know if it is supposed to be called a book. But I’d like to call it the same. It’s a story that I read in bits and pieces over a month and then wanted to read the whole of it together. And that’s when the author…our very own co-blogger Richa Singh (yes! It is a story by a blogger) came up with a pdf version.

Aug 12, 2013

Day 5 - A book review of Palace of Illusion by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

This post is written under Day 5 of my ongoing project 30 days 30 books.

As Indians, we have heard/read/seen various versions of the famous Indian Epic Mahabharata. We all remember times of black and white television sets when Sunday morning meant the famous tone of “Mahaaabharat” as the show started.
We remember Sanjay, who narrated the story to Dhritrashtra as he had special power to watch the war as it unfolded. We remember the warriors who fiercely fought through the Dharmyudh. We remember Krishna who changed the course by his words and we remember the women who cried and prayed for their father, husbands and sons.

Day 4 – Review of Three cups of tea and Stones into school

For the day 4 of the project 30days 30 books, I am here reviewing books that moved me and inspire me to work in education sector. This isn’t a review only for the books but also a summary for the good work that the author Greg Mortensen has taken up.

Three cups of tea was published in 2006 authored by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin. The book gives an account of Greg Mortensen’s first visit to Korphe after a failed attempt to climb K2 and the journey of building schools that started from there in 1997 till late 2003.

Aug 10, 2013

Day 3 - Book Review of "How I braved Anu aunty and co-founded million dollar company" reviewed by Shrinidhi Hande

My today's post come from Shrinidhi Hande who has been more than kind to share some of the book reviews from his blog.

Shrinidhi is a Bangalore based IT proffessional who is travel enthusisat and a wonderful blogger. I believe he is an ardant reader too. He has several articles, talks and blog events to his accounts. You can read a bit more about Shrinidhi here - http://www.enidhi.net/2009/05/about-me.html

In this review Shrinidhi writes a review of "How I braved Anu aunty and co-founded million dollar company" by Varun Agarwal.

Here is an extract from the review -

After receiving the book few weeks ago, it didn't get my priority for various reasons and I read it only this weekend. It turned out to be an insightful as well as entertaining read. More importantly, it is no joke or humor but real story by and large.

Varun agarwal is the author of this book. He is also the co founder of almamaterstore.in, an ecommerce initiative that sells school specific merchandise (like t-shirts) to alumnus of respective schools. The Book "How I braved Anu Aunty and co founded a million dollar company" is his experience account in overcoming personal challenges and setting up this company, which is now valued at over a million dollar.

Aug 9, 2013

Day-2 Book Review - Fifty shades

Here comes the day 2 of my latest project – 30 days 30 books…I am glad that I have some contributors so I can probably skip some days by just offering you their reviews to read…

But today I bring the second book from the list of ten books I promised.

“Fifty Shades of Grey” and the next two in the series – "Fifty shades darker" and "fifty shades freed".

Aug 8, 2013

30 days 30 books

It has been 8 days since Ultimate Blog Challenge got over and I have taken a well-deserved break from reading and writing blog over a week.

With sudden absence of blogs in my life, I once again found a lot of free time to read and read three books in eight days.

While I wrote the book review for “And the mountains echoed” I got inspired to create this project to write 30 book reviews over next 30 days.

Of course, it is going to be a struggle to write one post each day given the schedule I can see for me during the next week. However, there are several holidays and I hope to catch up during those days.

Also, I request guest bloggers to help me out here. If you have already written, or willing to write a review for your favorite book or a book you recently read, just let me know in the comments below. I would love to add your post here.

If you would like to read a review of a particular book, please feel free to name. If I or any of the guest bloggers have read, or get a chance to read it, we will share the review for you.

Here are the books that I promise to write about in first ten days-

And the mountains echoed
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Covered on Day 7 (read here)
Tuesdays with Morrie - Covered on Day 8 (read here)
Three cups of tea & Stones into school - Covered on Day 4 (read here)
The hungry tide
Aleph
Fifty shades series - covered on Day 2 (read here)
Shiva Trilogy - Covered on Day 9 (read here)
Palace of Illusions - covered on Day 5 (read here)

An exception made for Day 6 - The other side of human love - (read here)

Hope you enjoy reading…

Book Review – “And the mountains echoed” by Khalid Hossini

The Kite runner famed Khalid Hossini launched his much awaited third book in July, 2013. His first two books “The Kite runner” and “The thousand splendid suns” were critically acclaimed across the globe as they narrated stories of lives from Afghanistan during Taliban.

The third book after a long break is another splendid read by the author.