After I finished reading Daniel Kahneman’s Noise…. I felt I wanted a break. There was too much to process in that book. My choice was to spend some time with fiction. But then I thought how about switching to Memoir…. Read More ›
Book Review
Bookless in Baghdad – A reader’s delightful stroll through 230 pages
The writer in Tharoor has always fascinated me. I have found his prose very beautiful. I have to admit that I say so by only reading his ‘India: From Midnight to the Millennium’. But in this trip I bought a… Read More ›
Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’
I was in two minds to write a review on Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Sapiens’. My first thought was to do a combined review after I finish Homo Deus. But that will take time as two other books have come… Read More ›
Givers, Takers and the insight into self and people we work with
With ‘Give and Take’, now I have read all three of Adam Grant’s books. I started with Originals. Was impressed and I started following him on LinkedIn and Twitter. Then I read Option B a few weeks back which he… Read More ›
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson’s book ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ was not my first choice to read. But there was so much promotion on it. I saw people posting pictures of it on Social media. People talking.. yes.. people… Read More ›
Half Earth By Edward O. Wilson Goodreads 44/50
Half Earth is the final episode of E.O Wilson’s Trilogy addressing the question “Where are we going?” and it follows his earlier books “Where do we come from?” (The Social Conquest of Earth, 2012), and “What are we?” (The Meaning… Read More ›
Love Wins: From Institutional logic to Constitutional logic
Love Wins is an interesting read. A history class of our times through the moving stories of lovers, lawyers, judges and activists who worked towards one of the most important, national civil rights victories in decades—the legalization of same-sex marriage. Written… Read More ›
Josh Hanagarne’s The World’s Strongest Librarian is a Must Read
Just finished Josh Hanagarne’s The World’s Strongest Librarian. I picked it from the Library more for it’s title than it’s content. But I should say the content is way more stronger than the title. Hats Off to Josh for writing… Read More ›
Thoughts after reading Paul Kalanithi’s ‘WHEN BREATH BECOMES air’
This is not a review but a collection of thoughts that has been passing my mind when I finished reading Paul Kalanithi’s book ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ two days back. I am sure like many of you your eyes were wet and… Read More ›
Here On Earth By Tim Flannery
” We live in a Zoologically impoverished world, from which all of the hugest, fierest and strangest forms have recently disappeared” these were the words of Alfred Russel Wallace who had independently proposed his theory of evolution by Natural selection… Read More ›
