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BOOK REVIEW: Succeed The Happionaire Way by Yogesh Chabria

Some say happiness is a state of mind. Many believe in that. I do too. It indeed is a state of mind but we all wonder how to achieve that state of mind, don’t we? The happiness of an individual is reflected by aspects that are prior to us mortals. These aspects fall under few different criteria and a common ground between them is where the state of happiness lies. It is not something that is…

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BOOK REVIEW: Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk

Pages: 161, Kindle Edition Published: 2009 Most of the Vaynerchuk books are like a personal pep talk. They’d be about money, hard work, work, and his majority focus is on passionate living. I have been following his vlogs on YouTube for months and that what lead me to read his books. (more…)

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BOOK REVIEW: The Presentation by Anoop Anthony

Pages: 33, Kindle Edition Published: 2018 The Presentation is a short story about the tragic modern life, on an individual who is leading a life in the corporate world but fate has something else in its book for him. Written elegantly by Anoop Anthony, it will put its reader to think hard about what they have got and how to start living instead of dying. The plot revolves around Manoj and is kind…

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BOOK REVIEW: The Assassinations by Vikram Kapur

Cover Rating: 5/5 The Assassinations, A Novel of 1984 written by Vikram Kapur is a historical fiction that deeply covers the riots that took place after a former Prime Minister of India was assassinated. The complete plot takes place in New Delhi which was at the time (in 1984) a locus for the riots. The storyline follows the lives of two families who are engaged and affected in the historical…

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BOOK REVIEW: Work that Matters by Maia Duerr

Published: December 26, 2017 by Parallax Press Cover Rating: 5/5 Maia Duerr’s new book is all you want to read before this year ends. Why? Because her book holds that element of getting you enthusiastic to start the New Year with an authentic perspective of how to keep living and do what you want to do. (more…)

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Author Interview: Priyanka Baranwal

Q. Hi Ms. Priyanka, and thank you for agreeing this interview. Tell us a little about yourself and your background? Hello, Amandeep! My pleasure to be here again. I am Priyanka from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh (India). I currently live in Kuwait. I am an author, and a blogger; love to play guitar and do some poetry as well. My hobbies are traveling, reading, jogging, and watching movies. I have two…

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BOOK REVIEW: Fragments by Heraclitus

Written around twenty-five hundred years ago, Heraclitus declared that energy is the essence of the matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. Fragments if a form of collected writings by the Greek, since the title and the context of the book both suggest that. (more…)

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First review on My Book

Rayne Anderson is a fellow blogger. She is getting started on her book blog: Rayne Reads. She has been kind and generous enough to leave a review after reading my book: A Blogger’s Manifesto. I want to thank Rayne for her time, effort and hope she gained something from the book. Thank you, everyone, for buying the book. I hope you enjoyed it as well. If you’d like to say a few words, please…

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BOOK REVIEW: Murderous Greed by Arun Nair

Pages: 203 Published: 2017 by Notionpress Cover Rating: 4/5 Crime Fiction is one of my favourites genre to read. I can read books falling under this genre in no time. In my reading years, after reading both classics and contemporary crime fiction novels, I have concluded that a good crime fiction is written with variant in its narrative pace. Not only it keeps the reader driving forward, continue…

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BOOK REVIEW: The Shadow of Darkness by Priyanka Baranwal

Pages: 390, Paperback Published: December 2017 Cover Rating: 5/5 Not all nightmares arouse questions, some give away answers too. The Shadow of Darkness is the second book in the series of “It’s Never Too Late”, picks the journey of a mother and a daughter from the first book. Written by Priyanka Baranwal, an Indian author who has a very detailing writing style, this novel revolves around the…

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BOOK REVIEW: The Shadow of Darkness by Priyanka Baranwal

Pages: 390, Paperback Published: December 2017 Cover Rating: 5/5 Not all nightmares arouse questions, some give away answers too. The Shadow of Darkness is the second book in the series of “It’s Never Too Late”, picks the journey of a mother and a daughter from the first book. Written by Priyanka Baranwal, an Indian author who has a very detailing writing style, this novel revolves around the…

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Ebook Available for Orders

Today, my first ebook, A Blogger’s Manifesto is available for direct orders to be read on Kindle device or application from Amazon. I am excited about it. 😄 This is the link. All readers who pre-ordered it will get their book as soon as the clock ticks 00:01 AM on 2nd Feb in their time zones. Friends and fellow bloggers from my own timezone can order it now from Amazon India. I am sorry that you…

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BOOK REVIEW: Men and Dreams In the Dhauladhar by Kochery Shibu

Pages: 284, Paperback Published: 2015 by Niyogi Books Cover Rating: 5/5 Kochery Shibu’s debut novel Men and Dreams In the Dhauladhar is a mesmerising tale. Set in the lesser Himalayan Ranges around the peaks in Dhauladhar, this book is a perfect companion on a wintry night to get cozy. The plot majorly revolves around the lives of three individuals who in return somehow get intertwine with each…

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Ebook available for Preorders

So I recently published my first ebook through KDP (Kinde Direct Publishing) and it feels great! 😃 It is short, and will not take much time for you to read and I hope it helps you with blogging. The ebook will be available on Amazon on 1st Feburuary and it is available for pre-order here! for $ 2.99 Here is the blurb of the ebook: A Blogger’s Manifesto is a short ebook about blogging written by a…

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Cover is decided for the upcoming Ebook

Once again, thank you so much. In the second last post, I asked you to help me choose a cover for my upcoming ebook. You did very well. I have to go with the audience choice. It was a busy week and the cover of my ebook, A Blogger’s Manifesto is decided. The voting lines are closed now. You have done a great job by helping me 😃 These were the results of the poll:

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Book Spotlight: Shadow of Darkness

Congratulations! On your book, The Shadow of Darkness. I hope you won’t mind answering a few questions for my book blog and the lovely readers who are awaiting your book. Not at all! I am glad to answer your questions and hope (the) readers enjoy reading them. Q. What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your…

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I need your help with my upcoming Ebook

In my last post, I publicly announced that I am writing an ebook for bloggers and will be covering topics for book bloggers as my own niche. Those of you do not know me, I have been blogging for 5 years and I have learned a lot. This ebook is going to be a token of appreciation and my experiences I want to share with the people who are getting started in the blogosphere or are already a part of…

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