Aswathi Chandran
Health is Wealth
This book is really an eye-opener for me as I work morning from 9 A.M to 1 A.M. Whatever money you save for retirement it should not be spent on the health. It should be spent on the dreams you have planned. Health and Wealth both are important. The author had compared the ROI of both wealth and health.
Everyone thinks that reducing weight makes one healthy. This is a false concept. Weight loss is not important for staying healthy and losing the bad fat and eating well, doing exercise regularly, having some activity and a good amount of rest is needed. It is our priority to look after our health.
I really loved this book. I think everyone should read it. It will make you think and take actions.
“The Tattoo Trail” is a thrilling murder mystery that follows the investigation of the death of Vishnukanth, a top defense officer working on the India-China doklam issue. Keshav and Sumitra are the investigators tasked with solving the case, and their investigation leads them to suspect Kali Nath.
The author does an excellent job of creating a tense and atmospheric setting, with well-crafted characters and a well-paced plot that keeps the reader engaged. The story is full of twists and turns, and the author keeps the reader guessing until the very end.
One of the strengths of the book is the way it explores complex social issues in contemporary India. The author seamlessly weaves these themes into the story, making for a thought-provoking and engaging read.
Overall, “The Tattoo Trail” is an excellent murder mystery that will appeal to fans of the genre and readers interested in contemporary India. The characters are well-drawn, the writing is engaging, and the plot is full of suspense and surprises. I highly recommend this book.
The book is on current economic and political errors that created poverty and entitlement society. The authors gives some solutions to the current problem in economy how the working class is living their life.The low minimum wages is the reason for many welfare schemes. Half of the Federal budget is spend on free medicaid, foodstamps and other schemes.
I took a lot of time to complete the book as it spoke about many economical issues, poltics, big corporates who help in fund raising and make the members of legislature to create law and amendments in their favour.
There are lot more to know and understand from this book. This is for readers who wish to read on current social and economic problem in the U.S.
I started reading and went back to the memories of my childhood reading comics. Still now am reading. This is the first series being read by me. Phoebe and Marigold. Marigold is a bit narcist but she loved her friend Phoebe. Everything sweet and beautiful in the world is named unicorn by unicorns. Loved the unicorn and human friendship.
I Loved this book. This book is meant for young children but I say everyone should read it.
Many people around us cannot accept themselves. Some are tall, short, thin and thick. This is not a defect. Everyone is unique and they should love themselves.
The authors say about self-care and self-love in an impressive way within 21 pages book with lot of illustrations. The ideas narrated to make oneself love from inside and outside is really good.
Micah: The Good Girl #2 is also interesting. Read the sample of both Micah and Lux and want to know more about Micah's brother Milo and what happened to him and what was the cause of her panic attack and what happened last summer. Love to read the full book. Waiting for the release. This seems a book under the Young Adult genre.
Kindness
The barnyard buddies - horse, donkey, pig, goat, bird help the newcomer dog who was so weak by sharing their food and hid from their owner Jim. Later Jim see him and plan to take the dog to shelter home but he changes his mind and name the dog blue and keep the dog with him. He don't have enough but he says can share. The blue got new family. A happy ending.
The Nouveau Riche by Olga Alexander is a novel which narrates the story of a girl named Bernadette and her struggle and how the people around her make fool of her. In the beginning, It seemed like the story of a man Patrick Peterson his daughter Sabrina and Bernadette. Bernadette was a girl brought up in an orphanage but she had rich parents and a brother. The story moves how Bernadette a girl from orphan become a nouveau riche.
The story the characters narrated comes and goes as the story was so rushing and the life of Bernadette was a mess but she had some value than others in the story who took advantage of her and fooled her and there was a lot of adultery in the story. The climax was ok, not good because as it was like in mid of the story where something good happens and twist. There were lots of twists and turns and it makes Bernadette confused what to believe or not.
There were a few grammar mistakes also. This is a long book with 615 pages. It took a lot of time to complete it. I finally completed it and was happy.
In this book Someone I liked and felt bad for the way her life was going was Bernadette. She was such a strong woman who had a lot of guts to go through to a lot of ups and downs in her life.
The book was really interesting. I got the review copy of this book. This was the first book I bought as a review copy. It has 3 plots. The characters from three plots are connected by an Adele concert. All wish to go to the concert. The first plot in which Elias trying to find his lost love Mallika. The second plot was a couple in Los Vegas who is trying to make their relationship work as they are on the edge trying to find find the happiest moment in the past. Another plot was of a divorced woman who is a single parent trying to take her son for the Adele concert as a gift for his birthday. All the main characters in these 3 plots get the ticket for the Adele concert. Each has its own reasons and there are verses of Adele songs based on the situation in each chapter. Read to know who went to the concert and who doesn't and their stories.
The main character is Chaz, a missionary kid, and his family. The plot is set in Thailand. Chaz's family preach Christianity in Thailand. This summer they had some guests to help them preach some missionary kids from the states. Chaz had crush on one of the missionary kids and he hated one. Chaz rescues a girl named Katya who escaped from her village as the villagers planned to sacrifice her to Dragon and were sold by the mafia to a man as a prostitute. She was rescued from the man and taken to the orphanage. Chaz here the voice of God and goes to Katya with a drawing which makes her say her story. She seeks help from Chaz and his family to help her save her friend who will be sacrificed instead of her in the village. They accept to help her and planned to travel there.
It has a lot of images of different gardens. There were more images than content and description of each garden their speciality. This is not a book that suits me. Those who know more about gardening and wish to know about different gardens how each are maintained in a unique way and knowing its unique beauty can read it.
Cynicism
The book says all about how are the billionaires, what are the rules they follow. How they make the rules in this world. What we should follow to be a billionaire. It seemed be selfish, treat employees as commodities, if you provide donation people think you are great and get their support. They don't know it's their money with which the billionaires buys their jets and other luxury and giving charity.
Travelogue, Biography.
I took a long time than usual to read this book. Books can make us travel to different corners of the world and this book really did it. I loved the way he narrated his journey to Peru and all the days he spent there, about people around, culture, cuisine. I liked the way he got new friends. He followed what his mind said and enjoyed the journey and never regretted leaving his Job in Brooklyn.
The book is really good and written in a simple way but the pace seemed slow to me as each and everything happened around was narrated.
This is a good read for people who wish to have a multi hyphen life, different working life. As today's work environment is changing we need to change with that. Change is the only thing that remains constant. In this COVID time, we all are in a cash crunch working from home. We know the difficulty in leading a life only with one job. Many don't think it is a good idea to have multiple careers. Learning new things always help you. Having a day job and other side hustles became part of life to many. We need different streams of income as well as flexibility, work-life balance.
The author clearly indicates how success definition differs from person to person. We should have our own definition of success guys. The author explains how we should find our niche and how we can have blended work and life. We should have control of everything as the technology is connecting people across the globe as well making us work 24 X 7. We should always have a schedule and say no is important at a certain time.
The author speaks about the importance of networking and how we should deal with money. There are 10 chapters each with unique valuable lessons. The last sentence in the 10th chapter I really loved it - “Let's not be afraid to be many different things”.
I am very thankful to the author as I was thinking of helping my father start a fast-food business. All I want to know was in this book in a very crisp manner. The book gives us a lot of information about the food business everything from production, transportation, storing, preparing and all. Who needs to register their business and who need to get a license and difference between state licensing and central licensing. How to clean, sanitize food products, containers, storage area and how to groom staffs and train them. What are the hazards that we should be aware of. The author also describes Food grade plastics which are to be used for what.
This book really helped me and I think everyone should read to know how to maintain our own kitchen and not overstock anythings, clean regularly, who to maintain containers and kitchen stuff.
Story and Poems
The story is about Kingshuk Sen whose mother left him and his dad because of love with another man and unless the loss of his mother he was good at studies and became a successful entrepreneur and he loves a woman named Rohini who Is married and have a child and not wish to separate from her husband but lives separately in the same house thinking of her son. One day a call comes from a girl named Seemanti who is the daughter of the guy with who her mother moved with but she was the daughter from his ex-wife who called to say the demise of her father and make him meet his mother but he doesn't wish to meet his mother and just was in the confused state whether to meet her or not. Just read to know what happened next.
There were 4 poems which were stories narrated in a poetic way. It is a book of 84 pages written in a simple way.
A Ph.D. student Keisha who is giving beetroot juice to heartbroken people for curing it. She met a subject Clive who's heart was broken because of something that doesn't happen. She promised to help him. But she was so confused. There was another good soul George who a nurse in the hospital helped clive. There were more people who came to help Clive to know what really happened and why he is hallucinating many things. He believed there was a woman named Nancy in his life.
For Keisha, Clive was more than a subject. She and her friends - Lucy, Tess, and George helped in finding the truth about Clive. The story had something about finding love and finding lost love. Keisha and Clive have a scar, Keisha always remembers how this scar came and those moments whereas Clive doesn't remember how this scar came and it's memory.
I loved reading this book. something I liked in this book was. there are still kind people in this world who help without expectations that bring a lot of changes to life. In the climax of the story, we feel never it is too late to lead the happy life we yearned for. Each people who come into our life teaches us something.
Enjoy reading !!!
The Fisher Queen's Dynasty by Kavita Kane really narrates the story well from the side of Satyavati and Bhishm. The author made me see Bhishm as Devavrat. The kingdom ruled my regent and queen.
She is ambitious and strong who never regret for what she have done to gain everything she lost as a abondoned princess. She wanted heirs and when she got more than 100 but killing themself for throne was prophecy from Vyas which made her leave the kingdom and move to forest. She was the one who made the beginning of kurukshetra yudh.
I loved the friendship between Bhishm and Satyavati. Bhishm was the only one who know her dark secrets. They both were suffering because of the things they changed. If Bhishm doesn't took that oath, everything may be different. All happened was a reaction of their decisions.
Enjoyed reading...
This book seemed like a biography of Bishnu Maharana, chief architect of Konark Sun temple. The story at the beginning where Bishnu thoughts to write about himself and what he knows to help the future generation from his childhood, studies, how he got interested in architecture, how he became an eminent architect and about the mentors and guide who made him reach the goal.
The temple all around his travel was narrated with back story and architectural styles and narration of the places he travelled admired me to visit Odisha.
If you want to know more about some India Architecture history and how the fine works have been done in such a brilliant way. You should surely read it.
Optimistic, Loving oneself, Finding love, passion and a lot more...
Unlocking The Lockdown Stories have 10 short stories from different parts of the country during the lockdown. Each story is so different and interesting. I felt like watching a movie. I loved all stories so it is hard to say about only one title. Anyone of the story will remain you about yourself or people around you. We all are different with the different situation in our lives. Each people had done something worth during this lockdown and that is memorable and cherishing. I just don't want to give any spoilers. Enjoy reading!!!
The book gives us some insights from the authors' experience and research to improve ourselves so that we can reach our goals and be good humans and how to improve our career and career growth.
This book was simple to read, written in simple English. It is a book for teens and adults as a self-help book with 25 chapters that can be read in and 1.5 hours. What you grasp should be followed, guys.
Some topics in this book are how to tackle depression, anger management, how to forgive and forget, and how to avoid distractions and work on our tasks.
Enjoyed reading..... I wish I should start to follow some of the things mentioned.
Whether the Children is grown-up or a kid they always come seeking the advice of parents and elder ones. So a parent always tries to guide their children to the right path.
This book is really helpful to learn what parenting is and the process of moulding a child giving love, making some limits, caring for them, making them follow their dreams.
The author had written the book in simple English which is easy to understand. I think every parent should read it.
Learn the art of taking the perfect photo of flowers.
The author explains the basics of photography at beginning of the chapter which is necessary to take a perfect photo. The author classifies the flowers into three category small, medium and large flowers and explains at which angle, exposure and direction of light and camera for each flower in this three categories with step by step explanation. He also gives us insight about few editing using free software applications such as Microsoft Picture Manager, MS Word, Picasa, MS PowerPoint
The Images in the book are really helpful with the explanation content which makes it easy to understand.
The book is really helpful to people who are interested in photography and knowing some basics concepts of photography and how to take pictures of a flower beautifully and perfectly.
This is the first crime thriller I have read. There were different plots which are connecting together. Naithy Cherozil is in a coma and her daughter Alice is moving from one place to another to protect herself. Tony D Souza - Stepfather of Alice was killed in a blast in the apartment, Bhanu Pratap Singh - a driver of Mia Sadhiq, underworld dawn. Prem Rollands and Arun Rollands migrated from Bihar. Arun was encountered by Police and Prem takes revenge and finds the secret about Tony. Prakash, an NSA officer who investigated the case and saves Alice and Naithy.
I loved Alice who was so intelligent and protected herself. The background explanation of some plot was a lot and felt it was not necessary but somehow it gives insight about the culture, customs in different parts of the country.
There are 16 short stories which are divided as 3 chapters. Each was so different and unique which depicted stories from different woman's perspective. On reading each story I felt how biased the society is. The society is so prejudiced and still, now many women are not treated equally or accepted for there existence. For Men and Women, the rules are different. When we can see an unbiased workplace, home, society.
We can experience the feeling of each character in the story, how they feel. Stories I liked a lot was Drought and the Day Harvest, Rainbow Dreams and Broken Lives, And one more chance to live, Ratatouille of Remarriage and White Crimes and Dark Epitaphs.
All the stories were good and I think everyone should read it.