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Where Will Man Take Us?: The bold story of the man technology is creating by Atul Jalan My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb- The first person who will live to be 150 years old has already been born. The screen that we peer into will soon be within us. We could soon be taking happiness pills before breakfast. The perfect partner might need to be charged before bed. This is a new world we are walking into. And the man who began this journey won't be the man who ends this journey. Where Will Man Take Us? explores the changes technology is bringing about in us as a society and as a species. What will the next generation turn into, what will it be like, how will the new Adam and Eve live and love? In this book, Atul Jalan tackles nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and genetics, seamlessly weaving the future of technology with the changing dynamics of human love, morality and ethics. My Views - Where Will Man Take Us? by Atul Jain is an Non-fi

Fast Furious Lies: Story- 3 (Ajit Panicker's L . S . D) by Ajit Panicker My rating: 3 of 5 star Blurb - Fast Furious Lies is the third story of the title, Ajit Panicker’s L.S.D- Unconfessed Stories of Love, Lust and Treachery.  It is a standalone short story and part of the L.S.D title, which is the first book as an anthology in the bold series.  Joy George is India’s fastest Formula-one racing car champion, one who has become the most wanted F1 driver in the circuit. He was about to participate in the world’s biggest racing car event.  But that’s not the only side of Joy. He is a top notch Casanova and his frequency of changing girlfriends can put any celebrity to shame.  Then something happens to him that messes up not only his personal life but also his flourishing racing career.  He gets disqualified from the biggest racing event, Monaco Grand Prix, on grounds of indiscipline. He misses two major practice sessions before the major event, and the organizers and

The Inquisitive by Hemant Kulkarni My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb - A young couple (Mohit Prajapati and Monica Prajapati) have recently shifted to Mumbai and are devoid of any acquaintances or friends in the new city. As they are in the process of settling down in their newly rented apartment. Mohits father had then made Mohit vow that he will never meet Glen again . My views - The Inquisitive by Hemant Kulkarni is a blend of suspense and mystery thriller. From the prologue to epilogue author constantly reminds the curiosity nature we tend to have sometimes by ourselves. As the blurb states Mohit and his wife Monica moving to the new city Mumbai from their native Pune. By then Mohit happens to meet his very good friend Glen after years. So that he happens to have some new experiences via his old friend at the contemporary city. Mohit character also reminds me of a quote where someone once rightly said about curiosity, "The cure for boredom is curios

The Stalker by Sandeep Sharma My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb -  Randhir Kamat, a name famous for his regular mentions on page 3, was being stalked on social media by a girl named Deepali. He took it casually and enjoyed the attention from media but soon things went on to become ugly when his girlfriend, Rupali, started receiving death threats. Keeping everything on stake, Randhir chose to involve police to catch the Stalker. Inspector Suraj, started digging in and soon found that 'Here everyone's a liar'. Whom to trust? Whom to blame? There were no answers, just one question. How far will you go for the sake of your dream?   My views - The Stalker by Sandeep Sharma is a suspense thriller with a good cover which initially grabs my attention and blurb is also made in an interesting way to choose it to read instantly. The story surrounds around the triangular love story of Randhir, Rupali, and Mayank. Randhir, the co-owner of an upcoming company USB

~Book Blitz~  Scepters of Empyrea A Journey to the Andromeda Galaxy by Vignesh Ravichandran  About the Book: Empyrea, an island in the Andromeda galaxy belonging to planet Vathura is serene. Everywhere your eyes turn, you will feast on the lovely birds singing their heart out in the lush green vegetation. Osiris Mysterio ruled the regions of Empyrea with his brother Tyrant Seth and with their children Pitheceus Babi, Kraity Wadjet, and Horus Mysterio. 5000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians were the only humans to receive the invitation to enter Empyrea. They gladly on-boarded into a Pegasus chariot and took their journey to Empyrea. Their journey is indescribable. Empyrea by itself was like a fairy-tale garden, an ocean of flowers and exotic trees. As the Egyptians went further inside Empyrea, they saw its netherworld. They had mixed feelings when they saw the triangle shaped tombs and the bizarre headhunting people. Empyrea also had the blood-curdlin

Honey & the moon by Kamini Kusum My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - A novel to set your heart on fire! Love, lust, career, ambition, drive for success, failure, marriage, infidelity. Honey and the moon is the story of an ambitious career woman – Srishti. A woman who doesn't blink to participate in a man's world, but a woman who is also equally needy inside for a man to be there to support and love her. Conflicts of career success, relationship highs and lows and even infidelity enter Shrishti's journey as she finds love, finds success, loses them and tries to find them again. Shrishti has courage to deal with life. But will she finally have it all drawn together in her maverick heart? Her story is a racy kaleidoscope of non-conformity and adventure. My views- Honey and the Moon by Kamini Kusum, is an contemporary fiction novel. The story is about protagonist srishti, who is an highly aspiring person towards her career and progressive as well.

The Modern Day Hindu by Nikhil Chandwani My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb - “Here are your instructions. You must overlook everything you know. Modern Day Hindu needs you to blur the edges of white and the dark spheres of life. It is my journey, practicing a very rare Hindu way of living, and blending the same with Quantum Physics, The Cosmos, a whole lot of Hollywood Movie mentions, Rock Music and Passionate Resistance. This book provides resolutions to the Twenty-First Century dilemmas through certain laws, I decoded, while implementing the classical Indian knowledge. The book reveals the wandering consciousness of Hinduism. Awareness, that might complete your missing puzzle. It just might.   My views - The Modern Day Hindu by Nikhil Chandwani is a nonfiction novel. I must say that title is sole the reason to pick this novel to read. The title is an apt one, leads a pathway to readers about what the content would be. The novel is all about how we can follo

3 Steps To Himalayas: A Practical Guide To Achieve Your Goals by Ramesh Kundu My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb - We have become prisoners of our times and the result is a stressful lifestyle. This race to compete with everyone else is leading to irreversible destruction of the environment and social institutions. We have more comforts now, but pay the price with serious health problems & psychological issues. We are less happy now and peace of mind is just missing from our lives. This book is an attempt to look at simple solutions for all such challenges faced by a majority of us. Going to class with swollen faces after being slapped for 150 times; spending three days & nights in a police lock up; your friend fighting back a leopard with bare hands & surviving; watching helplessly as a person is hacked to death in front of you - all these experiences have brought enough learnings for a lifetime which have been shared in this book. To live a stress-free life

Thank God I'm Fired by Sandeep Pawar My rating: 5 of 5 stars Blurb - What do you do when you think you are trapped in the wrong job? Leave the job and do what you love. Simple, isn’t it? But what if you neither have the guts to leave the job nor know what you love to do? Complicated, isn’t it? Meet Raghav, who like millions of other software professionals, is stuck in a similar situation. But don’t worry, his destiny has better plans for him. What plans you may ask? Well, getting him fired. This novella takes you on a light-hearted tour of the contemporary software industry where you can ask the haunting question loudly- is getting sacked a blessing in disguise?  My views - Thank God I'm Fired: A Corporate Enigma by Sandeep Pawar is a short story that would speak the heart of a corporate guy, Raghav who's in a non-satisfied corporate job and ready to his dream job. The hardships of every salaried person face when they were fired or switch thei

Shadows of the night by Priyanka Lal My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - Nights are the times of real emotions. Mundane of the days may dilute what we feel but at night there is no hiding. Love - a teenager's fantasy, a dying man's first experience, a friend's playfulness, a person's hope… Love comes in varied forms and under different circumstances is expressed in a million ways. As the hours of the night changes, so changes the intensity of emotions and the lives of people make into new stories.An insight intoLives - poles apart from each other - guided by the touch of one common feeling, the stirrings of love. As you walk deeper into your nights be assured there is a shadow just for you. My views - Shadows of the night by Priyanka Lal is an anthology of 13 short stories. Its one of the best anthology I had come across, ranging various emotions and thoughts. The stories were all of the true emotions, feelings, love, friendship, humour, pain,

Voice of the soul by Shreyans Kanswa My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - How does it feel to lie just by yourself and delve into the silence. The silence that is a path to deeper self, a self that is unexplored. That same unexplored self can also be regarded as the soul.  While the time ticks on the clock, a bond with your soul is timeless. Such metaphors are rendered powerless when a conversation is created with oneself.  These poems mean more than just words, they scream soulfulness. It is rather weird that we go looking for answers outside when all that we have to do is seek deeper within ourselves. The poems are experiences that the poet shares with the world, and these experiences are nothing fancy- they are all moments that the poet experiences with himself. They are questions risen from inquisitiveness and introspection. My views - Voice of the soul by Shreyans Kanswa is a Anthology of 61 poems where every theme of the poem are unique and as the title su

Mind, Life & Reflections by Payal Jain My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - From birth to death we all go through series of emotions, breakthroughs and transformations that upholds our way of 'being in the world' by means of our perceptions and reflections whittling our mind and soul.  'MIND, LIFE & REFLECTIONS' explore these lessons penetrating the emotions we feel through the perceptions of our mind about the experiences of life and how the same reflect on us shadowing or revealing our true self giving meaning to our existence. 'MIND, LIFE & REFLECTIONS' is a book on self-discovery kindling the thought and lighting fire within. It continuously unleashes the dormant energy within to recognise self-worth and take a step forward, unhindered, and untamed to rise to your full potential while taking you through your own life journey . My views -  Surely one of the different novel I had read so far. I've read motivational novel

BARS and BEATS by Venkat My rating: 5 of 5 stars Blurb - Weaving through the glamorous studios, the recording booths and the mixing consoles, this is the story of John-a violinist, and his very close talented technician friend Sundar, who works for the country’s best music composers.  The immensely talented artists like Rajashekar and Rahim are striving to give their best, but will they be able to hold on to their own spaces and face the challenges thrown by the hidden enemy?  With changing technology, the problems are also new-fangled.  The sweat, sleaze, stains, and the inside stories of hard work of the real audio recording world, passing through different periods, come to life through the characters who endeavor to attain success and fame.  The wretched ones are trying to take advantage of the weak, and an underlying real threat of piracy is looming large on the lives of the entire music industry folk.  Will the enemy be trapped ? My views - BARS and BE

~ Book Blitz ~ Prisoner of Yakutsk by Shreyas Bhave The Subhash Chandra Bose Mystery Final Chapter  8th to 10th February About the Author: What exactly happened to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose? • In 1945, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Leader of the INA leaves Singapore to take a series of flights, and dies in Taiwan after his plane crashes near Formosa. Or so it seems. • In 1947, Mr Mrs Singh, an illustrious army couple, both veterans of the Indian National Army, are last seen in Delhi, and then never again. • In 1949, the plane carrying the first deputy Prime Minister of India, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, mysteriously disappears for seven hours. • In 2012, following the fall of WikiLeaks, a female hacker of the notorious X group is on the run as most wanted by everyone from Interpol to the KGB • In 2015, the millionaire CEO of a Fortune 500 company suddenly resigns and vanishes from the public eye. A set of seemingly unconnected disappearances emerge

When Blessings Come: Life Becomes Beautiful by Ranjit Arora My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb - Blessings are a wonderful gift from the Almighty which come when you pray with a true heart. This book unravels those moments when such blessings are received and life takes a pleasant turn, resulting in everything falling in place. The book is a collection of short stories from the author's own life and of his dear ones where the Almighty showered his blessings, thus ending their struggle and gifting beautiful and joyous moments. Although difficult to understand, everybody experiences situations in life when their prayers are answered and tough times in hindsight seem to bring the most positive changes. The author has succinctly narrated how he handled tough situations with courage, conviction, and impressions others left on him that shaped his life. The stories hope to make the readers relive similar experiences from their own lives. Life becomes beautiful when you deve

It’s Got to be Love by Prashant Kaul My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb -  Meet Dev Sharma, a young student, who has a unique ability – he has nightmares that unfortunately come true.  It’s Got to Be Love weaves around Dev and his friend Vikram. Dev is initially smitten with Carol, a college girl, but due to various reasons, they part ways. He meets Vaani through Facebook and a steady friendship develops between them, which soon blossoms into love. However, Vaani turns down Dev, for reasons known only to her.  Will Dev win back his love?  Will Carol come into his life again?  Join Dev on his emotional roller-coaster ride in Chandigarh, Delhi and Mumbai. My views - It's Got to be Love by Prashant Kaul is a romantic fiction which blended with various human emotions. The title is eye catchy and perfectly states the plot of novel. Family, friendship and love the basic moral support for everyone which author understood well and implied on the story as well. Abo

WALK OUT OF YOUR HEAD: HOW TO KNOCKOUT OVERTHINKING AND DE-CLUTTER THE MIND by HAQIQAT ALI My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blurb - Let me tell you a thing!  You can stick to alkaline water.  You can hit the gym six days a week, for years.  You can stick to all the veganism in the world.  You can calculate nutrients intake and take supplements for your body.  But if you don't take care of the chaos going on in your head, you are still unhealthy!  You may be the smartest living animal,< but if you overthink, you will get your mind cluttered.  And if you do not de-clutter it, you will start living in your head, contemplate your thoughts over and over again, and take no decisions, no action!  Don't do that, be the smartest animal...  My views - Walk Out of Your Head by Haqiqat Ali is a non-fiction completely speaking about overthinking and things we fill in our heads which most of the time would be unwanted or non necessary things. The narrative was excellent in

I am a home to butterflies by J. Alchem My rating: 3 of 5 stars Blurb - A captain sinks with his ship then why cannot a lover? This collection of poetry is all about you and me, but I am afraid it will no longer be about 'you and me' once a reader picks it up. It will then be about them only. It will be all about the one they loved like thunder, about the one they struggled hard to keep, about the one who had left them in the middle of their 'forever', about their world shattering into pieces, about them gluing together every piece, and about them falling in love one more time. And if you still think it is about you and me, you haven't loved someone like thunder, yet.   My views - I am home to butterflies by J.Alchem is a collection of poems, quotes and letters which is unique in author's own style. I had read author's previous works “Undelivered letters” and “The Highway Man” which was absolutely wonderful because of that I had a hu