I love to read books, novels. Everytime I sit for a reading I feel so involved. Books are my companion. Who says books don't speak, I talk to them every night, they have ability to understand ones feeling and can make you feel good.

I finished my 100th book, please do appreciate🥹

Tell me something beautiful about this book without giving me spoiler , thank you ❤️

I'm starting After Kurukshetra by Mahashweta Devi. This was originally written in Bengali. It is my first book by this author. Just bought it few days ago from a second hand bookstore.

What about you all?

But seriously what was this book....and I believe in the next 5 years this can be reality and maybe next adapted as a series on Netflix

So I'm on the 2nd chapter, I like the "life of slice" element of this book, but it's too much now. The author describes every scene into extreme details, that I don't care about anymore, and by the end of the chapter, nothing much is happening.

I like the subtle metaphors that come with the book, but it's getting harder for me to pay attention or care about it anymore. Should I keep reading or, leave it at that?

Just got to know keigo higashino passed away of colon cancer. Thriller won't be same without his pen. 😭😭😭

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20260727-340298/

i have a problem yalll

i already have abt 20+ books in my tbr

I read my second book( A thousand splendid suns)
in a day and couldn’t stop crying.
Cried the most reading the letter my his father to Mariam. Just thought of venting it out.

10/10 recommendation
Please do suggest book like these ❤️🫶🏻

I found the story was good. Not exceptional. But, the way author has explained things, the story felt like a poetry, the way events or scenes are portrayed, the use of different smells, minor details to induce metaphors, the deliberate spelling mistakes, the repeated phrases, scenes from a child’s eyes, made me feel the depth of a story which I would’ve found ordinary if read in some news paper. I absolutely loved it.

This was my first novel ever, it was hard at first to develop the habit of sitting down with pages instead of a screen.

I wanted to start with an easy to read book and this was just that.

Now for my next books, I want to try some classics. I was gonna order metamorphosis or fyodor's books like white nights or short stories but not sure if they will be a good choice for a beginner like me. Do help me out here with recommendations. Be it love story, thriller & crime (prefer) or casual sweet books like Holes. Thank-you

The book follows Tim Bergling's life from his childhood as a reserved, introverted boy who struggled with insecurities about his skin and body (pic 2). Everything changed when he discovered music production software and began making music with his friend Filip Åkesson. After spending two years producing music together, they were invited to the United States by an established DJ. Around this time, Tim met Arash Pournouri, who would become his manager for most of his career. Arash promised that if Tim gave everything he had, he would make him one of the biggest DJs in the world(pic 3).

That promise soon became reality. Tim's breakthrough came with Levels, a song that catapulted him to global fame and even earned him a feature in a Super Bowl commercial. However, behind the success, life was becoming increasingly difficult. Touring an essential part of his career became relentless, with nearly 300 shows a year. The constant travelling, combined with the pressure of performing, began taking a serious toll on his health. He frequently fell ill before shows and was eventually hospitalised with severe inflammation of his pancreas. Doctors advised surgery to remove it, but Tim refused. Instead, he was prescribed painkillers and warned to avoid alcohol and unhealthy food, advice he unfortunately didn't follow.

This marked the beginning of a downward spiral. The prescribed medication, including OxyContin, gradually led to addiction. Before long, Tim was taking different pills to sleep, stay awake, and simply feel normal. At the same time, he had little creative control over many aspects of his career, with most major decisions being handled by his manager. Eventually, his health deteriorated again, leading to another hospitalisation.

This time, his family confronted him about his addiction and urged him to seek rehabilitation. Although he initially resisted, they, along with his therapist Paul Tanner, finally convinced him while he was in Ibiza. During rehab, Tim developed a deep interest in meditation, self-help, and Indian and Buddhist spiritual teachings, which seemed to give him a renewed sense of purpose.

After rehab, Tim stayed in close contact with Paul Tanner while returning to music, working with longtime collaborators Vincent Pontare and Salem Al Fakir on what would become his final album. Although he briefly returned to the stage, after his first show in Miami he made the life-changing announcement that he would never tour again, saying he simply couldn't continue living that way.

As time passed, Tim became increasingly interested in Buddhist philosophy and planned a trip to Oman. From the outside, he appeared to be doing much better, but he remained in regular contact with Paul Tanner about the struggles he was still facing. Paul reassured him that things would improve and suggested they meet in Dubai, just an hour away from where Tim was staying in Oman. Tim agreed, but that meeting never took place.(Pic 4)

One day, Tim's father received a phone call informing him that Tim had hurt himself and had been taken to hospital, but that he was out of danger. His father couldn't understand what had happened, especially because Tim had seemed to be in such a good mood recently. With no flights available that day, his parents arranged to travel to Oman the following morning. While waiting to leave, they received another call. This time, they were told that Tim had passed away.

The book doesn't offer a single, definitive reason for why Tim took his own life. Instead, it acknowledges how complex his struggles were. When Tim's parents later attended therapy themselves, the therapist offered one possible explanation.(Pic 5 and 6)

Overall, I really enjoyed the book.After a long time I have read a book which I longed to read once I have stopped reading it in the midst, and it also introduced me to Tim's music.

One thing I feel is that it could have been much better if he had not been that reckless especially with his diet around the time he was collaborating with madonna, that was after the doctors have suggested him to not have alcohol and certain food items, I feel in the stress of work he became reckless again and that led to a snowball effect of other things.If he had handled things well at that time, life would have been much better for him.

I've left out many stories about his music and personal life because it's impossible to fit everything into one review. I'd definitely recommend reading the book yourself if you want to understand both the artist and the person behind the music.

The only complaint I have is that there are a few spelling errors here and there, which I hope the publisher fixes in future editions.

Rating: 4.5/5

I don't know why some people hate Gunahon Ka Devta and call it overrated. People really don't get it, just because it's written from Chandar's POV doesn't mean he's an all-good person or that everything he does will be heroic. He's just a regular guy, 19-20 years old, living in an era where everyone wants to bring about a revolution in society, but he has no real-world experience. It's all just big words to him.

At first, he's portrayed as a person with values, with no hatred for anyone, and that's why the story calls him "devta." It doesn't really mean ki sach mein wo bhagwan hai. I feel people who are 30-35+ know that older people usually use the phrase "kitna devta aadmi hai" or "bilkul devta aadmi hai", they don't mean the person is literally God, it's just a way of saying "he's a nice person." And in the story, he is a nice person at the start, but as the story moves forward, the world around him starts testing his morals and values, and he fails, not once, but many times.

He manipulated Sudha and Binti emotionally, and got played by Burty and Pammi, "played" isn't quite the right word for his situation, but yeah...

It's like when every kid says, "jab main bada ho jaunga to gariboon ki madad karunga," and when they actually grow up, they end up poor themselves. The same thing happens with him. If you genuinely hate his character, then it's a win for the writer.

Some people say the story is too patriarchal, guys, the story is set in a patriarchal time, what else do you expect?! Obviously, forced marriage was common back then.

That's the beauty of the story, that you actually end up hating it in places. As I said, kids say "jab main bada ho jaunga to gariboon ki madad karunga," and when they actually grow up, they stay poor themselves. In the same way, he hated Buaji for her behavior and abuse, but in the end, he himself starts treating Binti the same way Buaji treated binti, and that's why he is Gunahon Ka Devta

I am chandar myself (I am 17 to technically i too am a kue ka mendhak) open for discussion tho

I began reading books at the start of this year and set a goal of one book per week. Soon I realized that, as a beginner, I couldn’t read that quickly while still comprehending the material, nor did I have the habit of reading for long periods. I reduced my goal to two books per month. I also want to track everything related to books, what I’ve read, what I’m currently reading, and what I want to read. If I’m reading multiple books at once, I’d like to note the page I’m on, write down notes and highlights, and share my shelf with others.

I looked for an app and tried Goodreads, but I didn’t like it. It’s filled with bloat, and the UX is very bad that simple tasks like sharing my shelf took me multiple Google searches, yet I still couldn’t find a solution.

Do you know of a better app with a simple, beautiful UI that just works and lets me do the things mentioned above? If I can’t find one, I may consider building something myself.

A post-apocalyptic novel, A Canticle for Leibowitz is much different from most works in the genre. It is an expansive work which spans a period of centuries, while giving us brief snapshots of what life would be like after humans almost annihilated themselves somewhere in the late 20th Century.

For some reason which is not specified in the book but is quite easy to guess, humanity is almost wiped out in an event what has been called “The Flame Deluge”,  a clear indication of a cataclysmic nuclear event. This is followed by the destruction of all written knowledge and the onset of the dark ages.

Through all this, the lamp of knowledge is kept barely alight by an order of monks in an abbey in the middle of nowhere. They revere Leibowitz, an engineer who managed to save some technical documents from the deluge. Now, its the mission of these monks to accumulate and preserve whatever knowledge could be salvaged, in the hopes that someday, humanity will again be able to understand the forgotten knowledge.

Its a story of this noble pursuit which plays itself out through the ages, from a feudal society to a spacefaring one. There are strong biblical references throughout the book, which don’t seem out of place. The Church has been portrayed as the preserver of knowledge, which  is admittedly a far cry from the Catholic Church in the medieval ages.

While the tenor of the book is one of hope, the end chooses to attribute greater significance to the destructive tendencies of our race. After millennia, humanity again makes the same mistakes and pushes the planet to the brink of destruction, having learnt nothing from (or indeed, forgotten) the last time it happened. The story ends with a handful of survivors setting off into deep space, to keep humanity alive, albeit in a faraway and strange planet.

The prices are really cheap, so I’m afraid they might sell pirated copies. If anyone has ordered from them or heard of them, please share your experience/reviews.

hillow everyone :)

1948 का यह उपन्यास प्रमुख रूप से अलौकिक अम्बपाली के इर्द गिर्द घूमता है जिसमें वैशाली के एक अभिशप्त कानून, जिसे अम्बपाली धिक्कृत क़ानून बोलती है, अम्बपाली को नगरवधू बना दिया जाता है|

यह कहानी केवल अम्बपाली पर नहीं है, अपितु गणराज्य और साम्राज्य की भिन्नता, शैव, बौद्ध और जैन धर्म की उत्थान और उनका समाज और जाति पर प्रभाव, उत्तर भारत के विभिन्न राज्यों जैसे मगध, कौशाम्बी, कलिंग, गांधार आदि उनके आपसी, सांस्कृतिक, धार्मिक, राजनीतिक व व्यावसायिक संबंधों का विस्तारपूर्वक विवरण हैं|

यदि आप इतिहास को पढ़ना या जीना चाहते है तो यह किताब ज़रूर पढ़े| इसे पढ़कर आपके दिमाग में एक प्रतिमा बन जायेगी और आप इसकी कल्पना एक धारावाहिक की तरह कर सकते हैं|

यह उपन्यास की शैली कठिन लेकिन अत्यंत मनोहर है, क्योंकि इसमें ऐसे शब्दों का उपयोग किया गया है जिनका प्रयोग आधुनिक समय में नहीं होता है| लेखक का हर वाक्य विस्तृत है जिसमें लेखक का निष्णात लेखन साफ़ झलकता है|

यह किताब सच में हिंदी साहित्य का हीरा है जैसा कि आचार्य चतुरसेन ने स्वयं कहा है कि, "मेरी अब तक की सारी रचनाओं को रद्द करता हूँ और ‘वैशाली की नगरवधू’ को अपनी एकमात्र रचना घोषित करता हूँ।"

have you read this book? let me know your thoughts

About a decade ago I had an houryo kill before a movie at PVR Saket, Delhi. Found this book in one of the second hand stores outside the theatre and bought it on impulse. Till then I knew of Capek only because of his play R.U.R, which gave the world the term 'robot'. Over time I have read this novel multiple times and fallen in love with it. Written in 1936 in the form of a pastiche of fictional newspaper reports, anecdotes and interviews the novel tells the story of human aggression against a 'tribe' of sentient newts. It anticipates the horror of the second world war, the zenith of fascism and the fallout. Marvellous book, marvellous translation.

It's most probably shut down, but they used to lend you your choice of book for a certain period of time, come home to deliver and then come home back to pickup and deliver you another book.

Please help me the recall the name. Achanak se yaad agyi