The answer to the question, ‘Have you read any book in a single day?’ didn’t have a prompt reply from me for the longest time until today… Nico di Angelo’s adventure to the Underworld did it for me. Read the book in a single sitting and it was so worth it! — Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson universe was the first fantasy/myth-fiction I read in my teenage years. I even attribute some newfound friendships of teenage years to this series and it’s sequel, as a shy-13-year-old me started discussing about Percy Annabeth, Jason, Frank, Giants, Titans and other Greek Gods with class mates…

For the longest time, ‘A Man Called Ove’ sat on my To-Be-Read Shelf on my Kindle as I read through Sanderson’s Cosmere novels for the past eighteen months or so without sparing a blink at the other novels. …

One of the best books I read back in 2021, was Jay Shetty’s ‘Think Like a Monk’. Ever since I read it, I have been sharing different snippets from different chapters of the book — expanding on the ideas highlighted in them. Coming here now with the third idea, I…

So, I will be honest — I didn’t complete my 2022 GoodReads Reading Challenge. I had pledged 20 books and ended up reading just 14. Again two were audiobooks so I read “read” just 12 books last year. As you can make out from the bookshelf, almost all were fiction/fantasy…

Hey Everyone! Sorry for the tacky technical slang in the title. That is the best an engineering undergrad like me could come up with to discuss a book I have been reading for the past few hours. The book goes by the name “BUILD: An Unorthodox Guide To Making Things…

We were a bunch of primates who had gotten together and, against all odds, built a wondrous civilization. But paradoxically — tragically — our creation’s complexity had now far outstripped our brains’ ability to manage it. Last month when I realized a new Blake Crouch novel is about to be…

We’ve been encouraged from a young age to dream big and work hard to achieve our goals. It starts with the talk our parents give us as teenagers to stimulate us and help us do well on school tests, followed by watching biopics of famous personalities and reading memoirs as…

Recently, I came across this book summary on StoryShots of the ‘The Code of the Extraordinary Mind’ written by Vishen Lakhiani. The book has some interesting insights into how extraordinary minds perceive the world and what kind of way they think. …

Recently, I finished reading Jay Shetty’s ‘Think Like A Monk’ and was blown away by the amazing things I learnt from this book. It has been really difficult for me to place it in any genre and I think it’s best that we don’t even try. …

So recently, I came across this book called ‘The Six Thinking Hats’ by Edward de Bono. De Bono is a physician and writer, well-known for being the originator of the term ‘Lateral Thinking’. The summary of this book on StoryShots really caught my attention. So this idea about the six…

The following article contains Spoilers from the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. DO NOT READ AHEAD IF YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS! I just finished Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy a few weeks ago. I read the first book (The Final Empire) in June of 2020, during one of the first pandemic lockdowns, and of course, a dystopian future-themed book piqued my interest the most. However, after reading the first book in the…

Jay Shetty’s ‘Think Like a Monk’ has got me thinking about a lot of things I didn’t care about earlier. Last month’s takeaway helped me broaden my understanding of human values while I was writing the article. There is just so much to process and think about. This time, it’s…

After a lot of debate (in my head) about how audiobooks don’t serve my purpose as much as a paperback or a kindle ebook, I decided to give them a final try. I noticed my attention-span does not back-stab my productivity when I am listening to a fictional audiobook. However…

I felt like writing about this as soon as I finished James Clear’s ‘Atomic Habits’. There are some things that you have to write down to remember and I felt this one should be right at the top. …

SPOILER ALERT: The following book review may contain potential spoilers from the story. — Lockdown has turned life upside down literally. I really can’t imagine what you could be going through right now. And so, I thought we would be much better off discussing a book with a story similar to ours (in a way, turned upside-down). …