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★★☆☆☆ I chose this book because I wanted to read all of Preeti Shenoy’s books. Since I have already read couple of her books, I can say that this book doesn’t have her touch. It is a bunch of articles written for Financial Chronicles column Sex and The City. The books talks about various love — relationship issues. It is obvious that the author has spent a lot of time on researching for this book. This book let you know of various problems that exist in love relationships. As the book covers so many sections in so few pages, I think the author doesn’t have space to give in-depth explanations and solutions. After reading few chapters, I thought I would pick the movies and books mentioned in this book and share. There are quite a number of mentions about songs, research papers, arts but they are little alien to me :) I don’t have any takeaway from this book apart from knowing there tons of issues exist. Books The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kunde...

I find it really challenging and interesting to read books in the predefined order. I tried it with my first list and I completed them successfully. Here is the second list of books. Of course, no promise that I will read them in the order. If I get some interesting new book I may start reading it. If I do so, I shall update it here in this post. 1984 George Orwell ★★★★☆  my note Why We Love The Way We Do Preeti Shenoy ★★☆☆☆  my note Life is Tremendous Charlie “Tremendous” Jones ★★★★☆  my note Great Stories for Children Ruskin Bond பிறகு பூமணி To be decided later -1 The Pillars of Consciousness Osho Standing on an Apple Box: The Story of a Girl among the Stars Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush Paper Towns John Green To be decided later -2 The Room on the Roof Ruskin Bond The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate: Viewer Guide Gary Chapman சர்வம் ஸ்டாலின் மயம் மருதன் Delivering Happiness : A Path to Profits, Passion...

★★★★☆ How about the past tense of “run” is “runned” and “drink” is “drinked”? And opposite of “Good” is “Ungood” and that of “Cold” is “Uncold”? I love it. How can I “unlove” it? 😜 This was what they were doing for the Newspeak language mentioned in the book 1984 by George Orwell. War is Peace Freedom is Slavery  Ignorance is Strength  I can find the above slogans throughout book. Of course, that is what the book is explains. You can find a note on the slogans here . 1984 is written around World War II time, warns about the totalitarianism . It is really scary to imagine a life in the totalitarianism society. George Orwell wonderfully captures it through his protagonist Winston Smith. After reading the book, I watched the movie version of it directed by Michael Anderson. It is a good film to watch after reading the book. I think it would be little hard to appreciate the movie without prior reading of the book as the movie sequences are little faster...

As usual nothing unusual here :) I never thought I would get a chance to see a book like “ The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up ”.  I had gone through it. Interestingly I don’t find anything new in it for me! Of course, after all, I have been doing this tidying up work for several years now. My current challenge is in the form of digital contents. Yeah, I look like a mad person in this regard. Here are the things I wanted to do Clear WhatsApp images/videos/text Delete similar and common photos, basically if I don’t have time to rename them, they can be deleted. Remove screenshots that are not necessary Go through the songs and movies collections and reduce ruthlessly ;) It is really hard to say whether social networks are addictive or not. Oh, no no… it is easy to tell they are addictive. Last year, I thought I would check Facebook once in a week. But I was less frequent than that. I wanted to be more active this year. I hope I won’t get addicted. I didn’t read group ch...

Is there anyone still appreciating the stamp and coin collecting hobbies? I used to collect stamps in my school days, competing with one of my classmates. One day, I found it no longer worth continuing it. I stopped collecting stamps. I used to take photos of small insects, plants, flowers, etc. with my old Cannon camera. Of course, I concentrated on various focal lengths, natural/artificial lights, precise moments, blah blah to get nice photos. One day, it all looked so ridiculous. I stopped taking photos of this sort. My drawing kit had only Camlin/camel sketch pens and pencils. I guess the brand is still famous. Just like every kid, I used to draw mountain, river, trees… One day, I felt it as a mere time waster. I stopped drawing. I was startled when my classmate bought two packs of stamps. I was amazed at the quality and the perfection of DSLR photos. I could find thousands of great photos on the internet. There were so many tools for drawing and lots of people draw far bett...