"When life is tumbling out of control, I go to my happy place, where I can dream, remember and find order in chaos: I gaze upon my bookshelves," says Patrick Barkham and so do I. And when not at home to view my bookshelves I look at these...Cause 'Reading is a conversation. All books talk, But a good book listen as well' - Mark Haddon
As breathing in and out cannot be in isolation so is reading and writing (to me). Wish I was blessed with the natural flair and flow of words as some are, or had the memory to remember all that I read, which is needed. A bibliophile loves the book, the smell and the aesthetic of books, and may have hundreds of them displayed proudly at home - including several first editions - and may even boast excitedly about loving books. The bibliophagist is the real deal because he or she is simply a voracious reader. I am somewhere in between. I do not own many books, but do buy the ones I want to read; and I do know some who read 365 books in a year, I am not even half way there. Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics, I know, and therefore I would not want writings on any of the below to be a representation of my own original work. Most of them are Synopsis and in writers own words. Therefore I don't call them Book Review.
These are labelled as 'Reads - Fiction' and 'Reads - Non Fiction'.
7 Secrets - Trilogy by Devdutt Patnaik (Shiva, Vishnu & Hindu Calendar Art) Dec 3,2020
1992: The Harshad Mehta Story • Nov 30, 2020
2019 How Modi Won India - Rajdeep Sardesai • Feb 21, 2020
A Bank for the Buck by Tamal Bandyopadhyay • Mar 3, 2021
A Burning by Megha Majumdar • Mar 9, 2021
A Cup of Tea - God's exist • Jul 8, 2020
A Day of Valour - The story of Arjuna Feb 16 2021
A Feast of Vultures - Josy Joseph 9/23/2019A hundred little flames - Preeti Shenoy 4/13/2018
A Little Princess By Frances Hodgson Burnett • Mar 10
A Night full of Love - Story of Draupadi 15 Feb 2021
A poetic novel about grief - Maylis de Kerangal’s The Heart 4/9/2019
A poetic novel about grief - Maylis de Kerangal’s The Heart 4/9/2019
A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum • Nov 20, 2020
Adultery - Paulo Coelho 9/11/2014
Adultery - Paulo Coelho 9/11/2014
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll • Nov 4, 2020
All the lives we never lived - By Anuradha Roy. (Rukun Advani) 6/8/2019
AMMI: letter to a democratic mother - Saeed Mirza 10/7/2019
An Atlas of Impossible Longing - Anuradha Roy 7/30/2019
All the lives we never lived - By Anuradha Roy. (Rukun Advani) 6/8/2019
AMMI: letter to a democratic mother - Saeed Mirza 10/7/2019
An Atlas of Impossible Longing - Anuradha Roy 7/30/2019
An hour of wonder: The Story of Bhishma 15 Feb 2021
An Unsuitable Boy 2/4/2018
Angel by the River by Gus Speth : Environmental Issues + Job and Education today 12/11/2019
Angels & Demons 2/25/2012
An Unsuitable Boy 2/4/2018
Angel by the River by Gus Speth : Environmental Issues + Job and Education today 12/11/2019
Angels & Demons 2/25/2012
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl : Edited by Otto H. Frank & Mirjam Pressler • Jun 25, 2020
Arthashastra - Kautilya (The King) 8/11/2019
Awesome Foursome Echoes/Mixed Blessings/The wedding/Mirror Image - Danielle Steel and Chetan Bhagat's - Five Point Someone, Three Mistakes in my life, Two states and One night at the call centre 4/22/2011
Arthashastra - Kautilya (The King) 8/11/2019
Awesome Foursome Echoes/Mixed Blessings/The wedding/Mirror Image - Danielle Steel and Chetan Bhagat's - Five Point Someone, Three Mistakes in my life, Two states and One night at the call centre 4/22/2011
Bankerupt - Ravi Subramanian • May 31, 2020
Better Under Pressure : Justin Menkes • Dec 27, 2020
Becoming by Michelle Obama • Jan 20, 2021
Bible Stories - New Testament Dec 19,2020
Bible Stories - Old Testament Dc 19,2020
Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed 9/13/2017
Bleachers - John Grisham 14/10/2019
Blind Faith - Sagrika Gosh 5/9/2008
Blogging Reading and Writing.... 8/31/2014
Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon3/26/2011
Book Buddy - Working Women and communication 6/21/2014
Book Lovers Day 9/4/2019
Book Title: Coffee Can investing Author: Saurabh Mukherjea, Rakshit Ranjan, and Pranab Uniyal 8/1/2019
Books and Beyond... 3/9/2010
Books and Blurbs 7/23/2019
Books to read... 3/14/2011
Brida.......By Paulo Coelho 12/10/2011
Brooklyn - Colm Toibinis 10/10/2019
Buried Thoughts - Joseph K Jose 2/5/2018
Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed 9/13/2017
Bleachers - John Grisham 14/10/2019
Blind Faith - Sagrika Gosh 5/9/2008
Blogging Reading and Writing.... 8/31/2014
Bloodline - Sidney Sheldon3/26/2011
Book Buddy - Working Women and communication 6/21/2014
Book Lovers Day 9/4/2019
Book Title: Coffee Can investing Author: Saurabh Mukherjea, Rakshit Ranjan, and Pranab Uniyal 8/1/2019
Books and Beyond... 3/9/2010
Books and Blurbs 7/23/2019
Books to read... 3/14/2011
Brida.......By Paulo Coelho 12/10/2011
Brooklyn - Colm Toibinis 10/10/2019
Buried Thoughts - Joseph K Jose 2/5/2018
Burial Rites - Hannah Kent • Jun 23, 2020
Captivating Talks 6/13/2013
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 11/8/2015
Celebrating Public Spaces of India. 12/14/2016
Change.... 3/15/2011
Chicago Address - Swami Vivekananda - From the Platform of the Parliament of Religion 1/21/2020
Controlling & Dramas 11/29/2014
Cormoran Strike - J.K.Rowling/Robert Galbraith 4/9/2018
Count Your Blessings 6/21/2014
Captivating Talks 6/13/2013
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 11/8/2015
Celebrating Public Spaces of India. 12/14/2016
Change.... 3/15/2011
Chicago Address - Swami Vivekananda - From the Platform of the Parliament of Religion 1/21/2020
Controlling & Dramas 11/29/2014
Cormoran Strike - J.K.Rowling/Robert Galbraith 4/9/2018
Count Your Blessings 6/21/2014
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Mar 3 2021
Crossroad - India Today -45th Edition • Jan 5 2021
Crucial Conversations - Patterson Grenny McMillan Switzler 4/24/2019
Crucial Conversations - Patterson Grenny McMillan Switzler 4/24/2019
Curious Pursuits by Margaret Atwood • Apr 27, 2020
Daddy-Long-Legs By Jean Webster • Feb 8
Deep Work - Cal Newport • Feb 12, 2020
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney 01/03/2020
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney 01/03/2020
Discover Your Clifton Strengths - Strengthsfinder 2.0 From Gallup and Tom Rath • Sep 27, 2020
Days Without End - Sebastian Barry 10/11/2019
Deep Work - Cal Newport 2/12/2020
Desi Reading Time - AccessAbility 12/20/2014
Desire and Desireability 2/5/2019
Destination Work! 6/9/2012
Diamonds are forever 7/24/2010
Divine Magic: The Seven Sacred Secrets of Manifestation by Doreen Virtue 4/7/2013
Deep Work - Cal Newport 2/12/2020
Desi Reading Time - AccessAbility 12/20/2014
Desire and Desireability 2/5/2019
Destination Work! 6/9/2012
Diamonds are forever 7/24/2010
Divine Magic: The Seven Sacred Secrets of Manifestation by Doreen Virtue 4/7/2013
Dr.V Shanta - A Living Legend • Jan 20
Drive - Daniel H. Pink • Jan 5
Don't tell the Governor by Ravi Subramanian 2/7/2020
E=MC 2 7/18/2007
Eating Wasp - Anita Nair 1/28/2020
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time 9/16/2019
Experience your Good Now! : Learning to Use Affirmation 4/10/2013
Fatima Bhutto's book Songs of Blood and Sword 4/4/2010
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy Author: Raghuram G Rajan 8/1/2019
Few Good Men - Pattabhi Ram 9/4/2019
Fifty Shades....by E.L. James 3/14/2016
Flying High - A dozen Formidable success stories By R Sivakumar & V Pattabhi Ram 12/30/19
Foot Prints in My Heart 11/7/2010
For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child by Jean Sasson 4/24/2019
Freedom At Midnight - Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins 1/20/2020
Frozen Thought... 6/21/2014
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler 6/6/2019
Garbhodhaka Ocean 9/13/2019
Gitanjali... 2/25/2008
Don't tell the Governor by Ravi Subramanian 2/7/2020
E=MC 2 7/18/2007
Eating Wasp - Anita Nair 1/28/2020
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time 9/16/2019
Experience your Good Now! : Learning to Use Affirmation 4/10/2013
Fatima Bhutto's book Songs of Blood and Sword 4/4/2010
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy Author: Raghuram G Rajan 8/1/2019
Few Good Men - Pattabhi Ram 9/4/2019
Fifty Shades....by E.L. James 3/14/2016
Flying High - A dozen Formidable success stories By R Sivakumar & V Pattabhi Ram 12/30/19
Foot Prints in My Heart 11/7/2010
For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child by Jean Sasson 4/24/2019
Freedom At Midnight - Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins 1/20/2020
Frozen Thought... 6/21/2014
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler 6/6/2019
Garbhodhaka Ocean 9/13/2019
Gitanjali... 2/25/2008
God is a Gamer - Ravi Subramanian • Apr 13, 2020
Good to Great - Jim Collins • Aug 8, 2020
Great work Great Career - Stephen R. Covey & Jennifer Colosimo • Nov 18, 2020
Gulliver Travels • Feb 26
Heidi - Johanna Spyri • Jan 26
Hercule Poirots Christmas - Agatha Christie • Nov 19, 2020
How to be a Bawse – Lilly Singh 4/2/2019
How to win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie 5/28/2019
How to win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie 5/28/2019
I met my Soul in a Coffee Shop - Louis Gilbert... 6/3/2012
Ikigai - The Japanese Secret for a long and happy life. • Mar 6, 2020
In Search of your true self….Walter Staples 7/13/2008
Indira Gandhi - H.Y. Sharara Prasad • Nov 30, 2020
Inferno - Dan Brown 6/27/2014
InnerEngineering 5/28/2019
Inspirations By Paulo Coelho • Dec 20, 2020
Invisible Lines - Rub Zaman • Dec 8, 2020
Islam & God • Nov 20, 2020
Jeevithamenna Athbutham (The miracle called Life): KS Aniyan Dec. 28, 2012
Jonathan Livingston Seagull Richard Bach2/19/2011
Joy-ride Towards Divinity: A Spiritual Autobiography - Shobha Rajgopal Menon • Oct 12, 2020
Katha - Short Stories by Indian Women • Jun 3, 2020
Ladies Coupe by Anita Nair 12/29/2015
Lady you are not a man - Apurva Purohit 2/4/2018
Ladies Coupe by Anita Nair 12/29/2015
Lady you are not a man - Apurva Purohit 2/4/2018
Lady, You're The Boss! - Apurva Purohit • Apr 8, 2020
Lajja By Taslima Nasrin 7/31/2014
Law of attraction 9/14/2017
Lajja By Taslima Nasrin 7/31/2014
Law of attraction 9/14/2017
Lean In Sheryl Sandberg • Jul 19, 2020
Legal Eagles - Indu Bhan • Jan 18
Letters from a Father to his daughter • May 28, 2020
Life in a Postcard - Escape to the French Pyrenees : Rosemary Bailey • Jan 6
Light from the Orient - Swami Tathagatananda • Nov 19, 2020
Love Story..... 1/8/2012Mahabharat 7/18/2019
Mahabharata Revisited.....Jaya & The palace of Illusion 8/4/2013
Malory Towers - Enid Blyton • Nov 2, 2020
Man of a Thousand Chances - Tulsi Badrinath • Dec 11, 2020
Man’s Search For Meaning , by Viktor E. Frankl • Feb 8
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen • May 12, 2020
Marupiravi (Re-incarnation) 10/31/19Matilda by Roald Dahl 10/6/2016
Mehdi: Nothing is Impossible By Roy Alexander • Nov 18, 2020
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - John Gray 7/29/2019
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - John Gray 7/29/2019
Me Before You - Trilogy Series By Jojo Moyes i.e. After You and Still Me • Nov 24, 2020
Millennium series..Stieg Larsson. 1/15/2012 (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The girl who playd with fire, The Girl who kicked the Hornests' Nest)
Millennium series..Stieg Larsson. 1/15/2012 (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The girl who playd with fire, The Girl who kicked the Hornests' Nest)
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone - Eduardo Galeano • Jan 13
Miss Smilla’s feeling for snow - Peter Hoeg 9/13/2017Mission of Love by Roger Cole Dec. 28, 2012
Mistress - Anita Nair • Mar 16
Mixed Blessings.... 3/13/2011
Moonnamidangal - K V Manikandan 11/22/2014
More of Paulo Coelho 7/17/2013
Movies & Books 2/26/2012
Mixed Blessings.... 3/13/2011
Moonnamidangal - K V Manikandan 11/22/2014
More of Paulo Coelho 7/17/2013
Movies & Books 2/26/2012
My days in solitude - Annie Issac • Jan 18
My Journey - A.P.J Abdul Kalam • Nov 29, 2020
Nectar In a Sieve By Kamala Markandaya 11/28/2009Nehru & Bhose Parallel Lives - Rudrangshu Mukherjee • Jul 11, 2020
Nightingale 2.0 How Eleven Women Showed Grit, Guts and Gumption + Grace • Feb 6
Nightingale 3 – Choice, Chance & Change - CA Sivakumar & CA Pattabhi Ram • Mar 10
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer 7/7/2014Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick 11/26/2019
Oh Yes, I'm Single! 12/26/2015
Origin 2/4/2018
Osho 1/3/2016
Paulo Coelo & The Winner Stands Alone, Eleven Minutes, The Fifth mountain, The Pilgrimage 7/23/2019
Perfect Tangerine - The gift of Miracle Daley : Sam Mukherjee • Dec 20, 2020
Playing the Matrix - Mike Dooley 9/17/2019
Playing the Matrix - Mike Dooley 9/17/2019
Poonachi Or the Story of A Black Goat - Perumal Murugan Translated By N. Kalyan Raman • Jun 1, 2020
Power, Freedom and Grace by Deepak Chopra • Dec 29, 2020
Primary Greatness - Stephen R.Covey 6/19/2019
Ram Chandra Series - Amish 8/6/2019 (Scion of Ikshvaku; Sita: Warrior of Mithila; & Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta)
Ramayana 7/18/2019
Ready to be a Thought Leader? - Denise Brosseau 4/5/2019
Primary Greatness - Stephen R.Covey 6/19/2019
Ram Chandra Series - Amish 8/6/2019 (Scion of Ikshvaku; Sita: Warrior of Mithila; & Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta)
Ramayana 7/18/2019
Ready to be a Thought Leader? - Denise Brosseau 4/5/2019
Red Oleanders - Rabindranath Tagore • Dec 2, 2020
Reminiscences of the Nehru Age - M.O. Mathai 1/27/2020
Reminiscences of the Nehru Age - M.O. Mathai 1/27/2020
Retire Rich - Invest Rs. 40 a Day - C.V. Subramanyam (CNBC TV18) • Jan 4
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert T Kiyosaki with Sharon L Lechler 5/28/2019
Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert T Kiyosaki with Sharon L Lechler 5/28/2019
River, Cross My Heart - Breena Clarke • Jun 23, 2020
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts 6/13/2019
Shades of Saffron - Saba Naqvi • Nov 3, 2020
Shiva Trilogy - Amish Tripathi : Har Har Mahadev 8/6/2019Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse • Dec 2, 2020
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy- 9/26/2019
Straight from the Heart - Kapil Dev An Autobiography 5/2/2019
Straight Through The Heart: By Lyn Stone 1/23/2011
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy- 9/26/2019
Straight from the Heart - Kapil Dev An Autobiography 5/2/2019
Straight Through The Heart: By Lyn Stone 1/23/2011
Tenali Rama and A Tale of Two Cities.... • Dec 4, 2020
Terror On Tour - Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon • Nov 2, 2020
The 40 Rules of Love-Only Rules -Elif Shafak 2/3/2013
The 7 habits of highly effective people 4/9/2019
The 8th Habit 4/24/2019
The Alchemist (By Paulo Coelho) 2/17/2006
The Best Life Ever - Aditya Shroff 5/7/2019
The 40 Rules of Love-Only Rules -Elif Shafak 2/3/2013
The 7 habits of highly effective people 4/9/2019
The 8th Habit 4/24/2019
The Alchemist (By Paulo Coelho) 2/17/2006
The Best Life Ever - Aditya Shroff 5/7/2019
The better Man by Anita Nair • May 6, 2020
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne • Jan 20
The Butterfly effect !! - Freedom at Midnight (Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins) 8/10/2019The Case of the Bonsai Manager - R. Gopalakrishnan • Oct 27, 2020
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger • Dec 7, 2020
The complete Works of Swami Vivekananda • Dec 31, 2020
The Constitution of India - 26th January - Republic Day 1/25/2020
The Celestine Prophecy.....By JamesRedfield 11/29/2014
The Da Vinci Code: Dan Brown 12/25/2011
The Constitution of India - 26th January - Republic Day 1/25/2020
The Celestine Prophecy.....By JamesRedfield 11/29/2014
The Da Vinci Code: Dan Brown 12/25/2011
The Dharma Forest Keerthik Sasidharan 10 Feb 2021
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery • Mar 16
The Emperor of All Maladies, A biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. • Jul 2, 2020
The End of your life book club - Will Schwalbe • Jun 8, 2020
The Fault in Our Stars - Always Forever! • Mar 14
The Folded Earth - Anuradha Roy • Jun 14, 2020
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Şhafak 1/27/2013
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 6/15/2008
The Fox 11/15/2009
The Gift - Kochouseph Chittilappilly • Nov 30, 2020
The Girl on The Train Paula Hawkins 2/5/2017
The Godfather, by Mario Puzo 7/28/2008
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor 8/11/2019
The Help, The Gift, How to be a Bawse and Fish 2/4/2018
The Girl on The Train Paula Hawkins 2/5/2017
The Godfather, by Mario Puzo 7/28/2008
The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor 8/11/2019
The Help, The Gift, How to be a Bawse and Fish 2/4/2018
The Hour of Magic - The Eight Adventure in the kingdom of Fantasy - Geronimo Stilton
The Human Line - Ellen Bass 10/10/2019
The Human Line - Ellen Bass 10/10/2019
The Incredible Banker - Ravi Subramanian • Jun 12, 2020
The Jungle Book …By Rudyard Kipling…. 3/15/2009
The Juvenile Immigrant - Namrata Verghese 2/11/2020
The Kite Runner 2/19/2013
The Leader Who Had No Title......By Robin Sharma 9/24/2012
The Legend of Khasak - O.V. Vijayan 12/11/2019
The Lost Symbol : Dan Brown 12/25/2011
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - whodathunk 10/14/2019
The Jungle Book …By Rudyard Kipling…. 3/15/2009
The Juvenile Immigrant - Namrata Verghese 2/11/2020
The Kite Runner 2/19/2013
The Leader Who Had No Title......By Robin Sharma 9/24/2012
The Legend of Khasak - O.V. Vijayan 12/11/2019
The Lost Symbol : Dan Brown 12/25/2011
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - whodathunk 10/14/2019
'The Man' by Irving Wallace • May 29, 2020
The Marigold Story - Indira Gandhi & Others By Kumkum Chadha • Nov 4, 2020
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards • Nov 24, 2020
The Men who killed Gandhi - Manohar Malgonkar 1/24/2020
The Men who killed Gandhi - Manohar Malgonkar 1/24/2020
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig • Nov 20, 2020
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy 10/14/2019
The Moor's Last Sigh 5/9/2008
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy 10/14/2019
The Moor's Last Sigh 5/9/2008
The Mute Anklet - Radhika Nathan • Dec 18, 2020
The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri • Dec 7, 2020
The One Minute Manager 7/9/2011
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway & Amaram 11/18/2019
The Persimmon Tree 1/7/2012
The Pillars Of the Earth - Ken Follett 1/7/2020
The One Minute Manager 7/9/2011
The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemingway & Amaram 11/18/2019
The Persimmon Tree 1/7/2012
The Pillars Of the Earth - Ken Follett 1/7/2020
The Power of Change - Campbell Macpherson • Jan 21, 2021
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle 1/31/2020
The Power of One: Bryce Courtenay 4/25/2011
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle 1/31/2020
The Power of One: Bryce Courtenay 4/25/2011
The Power of the Possible by Auriela McCarthy Dec. 28, 2012
The power of positive living….By Norman Vincent Peale…. 12/19/2009
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion 6/11/2019
The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion 6/11/2019
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett • Jan 27
The Secret of Teams - Mark Miller 6/6/2019
The Secret -Rhonda Byrne 5/28/2019
The Secret… 6/17/2010
The Secret of Teams - Mark Miller 6/6/2019
The Secret -Rhonda Byrne 5/28/2019
The Secret… 6/17/2010
The Sky Gets Dark, Slowly - Mao Dun • Feb 28, 2020
The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata 8/13/2019
The Story of my experiments with Truth 6/28/2019
The Sound of the Mountain - Yasunari Kawabata 8/13/2019
The Story of my experiments with Truth 6/28/2019
The Traveler's Gift - Andy Andrews • Oct 27, 2020
The Tipping Point 1/2/2012
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce 2/4/2020
The Tipping Point 1/2/2012
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce 2/4/2020
'The Wisdom Of Crowds' by James Surowiecki • Feb 19
The Weekend - By Bernhard Schlink • May 11, 2020
The world is flat : Thomas L. Friedman 10/25/2010
The Year I Met You - Cecelia Ahern 7/11/2016
The world is flat : Thomas L. Friedman 10/25/2010
The Year I Met You - Cecelia Ahern 7/11/2016
Think Again - Adam Grant • Feb 26,2021
This is to be my symphony..... 7/14/2008
This Land is our Land' by Suketu Mehta - An Immigrant's Manifesto 1/06/2020
Three Books & Three People 12/28/2012 (Cancer Related)
This is to be my symphony..... 7/14/2008
This Land is our Land' by Suketu Mehta - An Immigrant's Manifesto 1/06/2020
Three Books & Three People 12/28/2012 (Cancer Related)
Three Men in boat - Jerome K. Jerome • Dec 29, 2020
Ticking Times 5/17/2018To Sir with Love - E R Braithwaite • Dec 4, 2020
To Read 8/2/2019
Today's Children Tomorrow's Grown-ups 12/20/2014
To Read 8/2/2019
Today's Children Tomorrow's Grown-ups 12/20/2014
Traveling with Pomegranates - Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor • Feb 8
True Stories of the Second World War 1/29/2010
True Stories of the Second World War 1/29/2010
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom • Jun 9, 2020
Uru Deshamukham - Amma Sep 6 2019
Vesper Flights By Helen Macdonald - Wunderkammer • Mar 16
Vivekananda A Born Leader By Asim Chaudhuri • Nov 30, 2020
What Young India Wants...... 2/9/2013When I Hit you - Meena Kandasamy 2/18/2020
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeannette Winterson 10/14/2019
Why I am a Hindu • Mar 10, 2020
Winning By Jack Welch with Suzy Welch. 12/29/2008
With Best Wishes - Sr. Mercy Jose & Co. 8/31/2014Words Have Power: The Truths We hold by Kamala Harris • Jan 20, 2021
You are a Diamond! Now Dazzle!! 7/24/2010
You are a Diamond! Now Dazzle!! 7/24/2010
Another way of looking at it, is by the writer; and that could be:
Adam Grant
Aditya Shroff
Alvin Toffler
Amish
Anita Nair
Arundathi Roy
Anuradha Roy
Apurva Purohit
Asim Chaudhuri
Auriela McCarthy
Ayan Rand
Barbara Demick
Bryce Courtenay
Cal Newport
Campbell Macpherson
Cecelia Ahern
Chetan Bhagat
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Colm Toibinis
Dan Brown
Dale Carnegie
Danielle Steel
Denise Brosseau
Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
Dooreen Virtue
E.L. James
E R Braithwaite
Eckhart Tolle
Elif Shafak
Ellen Bass
Eleanor Catton
Ernest Hemingway & Amaram
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Graeme Simsion
Gregory David Roberts
Gus Speth
Helen Macdonald
J.K.Rowling/Robert Galbraith
Jack Welch with Suzy Welch
JamesRedfield
James Surowiecki
Jean Sasson
Jeannette Winterson
Jeff Kinney
Jeffrey Archer
Jodi Picoult
Johanna Spyri
John Gray
John Grisham
Joseph Heller
Joseph K Jose
Josy Joseph
KS Aniyan
K.V. Manikandan
Kamala Markandaya
Kapil Dev
Kautilya
Keerthik Sasidharan
Ken Follett
Khaled Hosseini
Lilly Singh
Louise Gilbert
Lyn Stone
M.O. Mathai
Manohar Malgonkar
Mario Puzo
Mark Miller
Matthew Syed
Maylis de Kerangal
Meena Kandasamy
Megha Majumdar
Mike Dooley
Namrata Verghese
Norman Vincent Peale
O.V. Vijayan
Patterson Grenny McMillan Switzler
Pattabhi Ram
Paula Hawkins
Paulo Coelho
Peter Hoeg
Preeti Shenoy
R Sivakumar & V Pattabhi Ram
Rabindranath Tagore
Rachel Joyce
Raghuram G Rajan
Ravi Subramanian
Rhonda Byrne
Richard Batch
Roald Dahl
Robert T Kiyosaki with Sharon L Lechler
Robin Sharma
Roger Cole
Rudyard Kipling
Saeed Mirza
Salman Rushdiee
Sagrika Gosh
Saurabh Mukherjea, Rakshit Ranjan, and Pranab Uniyal
Sebastian Barry
Shashi Tharoor
Sidney Sheldon
Stephen R.Covey
Stieg Larsson
Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Kidd Taylor
Suketu Mehta
Swami Vivekananda
Taslima Nasrin
Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Thomas L. Friedman
Viktor E. Frankl
Walter Staples
Will Schwalbe
Yasunari Kawabata
"We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do. Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying. People we love stay with us even after they are gone, as our favorite books, stay with us, for our entire life. Reverence for books is what we all have in common - Every religion. From the Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett "Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting; Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. The appeal of reading lay in its indifference. There was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal." Reading helps to recognize cruelty, death, pain. So read.
"If you fall in love with books it means you’re chronically addicted to heartbreak. That we can pour ourselves so fully into something that makes us feel everything and which ends with a final page. The imagination unbound but physically cut off with the inevitability of The End." So says my biblotherapist The lonesome reader.
“it’s the sheer relief from the chaos in the head that reading delivers. Sometimes I think it alone provides me with courage for life, and has from earliest childhood.”
~ Vivian Gornick, ‘Unfinished Business’
Yes, still remember crying for books to read when in 4th standard, when father had gone to work, mother was worried and unaware what to do as I had created such a scene that neighbors had gathered around wondering what happened. Now there is so much to read - with ebooks, library, and owned books, but time is a constraint, and slowly eyes too. Pray that I always be surrounded by good books and people. Amen. Bonus would be a serene location amidst hills and streams. Desires unlimited of a human mind.
This is where it all began from, and in the words of the owner Raghavan Chittappan:
"Kalangale thirinjunokkanulla oru sramam, innalekalilude oruyathra naaleyilekku, samayam nilkalillatha vazhikalilude."
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