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Being Mortal (Books of 2025 #1)
I mostly read fiction in 2024 and by the end of it I was looking for a change. While going through Crossword in Indiranagar, Satya saw and suggested this book - Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. I am a big fan of Atul Gawande’s writing. Through stories and anecdotes, he makes complicated matters simple and interesting to read. Long back I had read The Checklist Manifesto and Better. They are one of my...
Banned Books
Banning books is a sign of cowardice. A society that tolerates this act is actively hindering it's own well being. While this act can be disguised and paraded as securing order and peace, it is a form of insidious censorship that serves only to curtail any exploration of the truth.
Why I wrote It, How I survived It: Book Reviews 2024
Now, you don't always have to necessarily rush out and buy the books I review :D. I just hope to sprinkle some fun facts that might tickle your curiosity about the topics I share with you. Sharing my December Blog https://jaeeblogscom.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/why-i-wrote-it-how-i-survived-it-book-reviews-2024/Challenges, travels, experiences - let me know how’s your 2024 been? Best regards and h...
Sip, Read, Review - “Inside Minimalism: Essays on Simple Living“
December read, I am offering my reviews on “Inside Minimalism: Essays on Simple Living.The best articles I liked from this book are by Joshua Hook. His writing tends to focus on how minimalism can improve mental clarity, reduce stress, and lead a more intentional lifestyle. Here all of this is presented in a simple way! Read the review at https://jaeeblogscom.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/sip-read-revi...
Echo
Dedicated to Richard Matheson.\I am pretty sure that before any place becomes a so-called hill station, they check off a pre-requisite list of points that should be there on it - a lover's point, a sunset one and now one of these - an echo point.\, said Amar while walking up the steps with Anjali.\Well, if someone was considerate enough to not go to a typical tourist place, we may not have ended d...
Light and Thread
An excerpt from her Nobel Prize speech. The full transcript can be found here.Written in a way that could only have originated from her. When I write, I use my body. I use all the sensory details of seeing, of listening, of smelling, of tasting, of experiencing tenderness and warmth and cold and pain, of noticing my heart racing and my body needing food and water, of walking and running, of feelin...
Quest
Reading “In Xanadu” felt like revisiting an emotion that felt familiar. I certainly don't know the locations and characters that are mentioned in the book.But when their quest ends, the author mentions feeling a void within. That a quest which requires so much sacrifice and time and effort was over in one fell swoop. A dream that someone might have held long enough to light, and keep lit, this rag...
