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6 Indian celebrity Memoirs to be inspired from

While fiction reading can take you to a magical land with its stories and characters, at times reading autobiographies and memoirs can help you see the reality of life and be inspired as they tell the true tale of struggle and achievement to the readers.  We all may be in awe of the celebrities and […]

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The Literary Bond- Ruskin Bond

Being an Indian, our conversation on books and writings will be incomplete without the mention of Ruskin Bond – Indian Williams Wordsworth. Ruskin Bond’s writing journey spreads over 7 decades but the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri awardee had his own challenges at being a writer. He now has to his credit over 500 short […]

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14 Words every book lover should know

All book lovers have one thing in common – their endearment for words. They love the magical land in which each and every word of the book takes them into. And we also have words to describe the funny, weird, unusual habits of readers which only they would understand.  So let me share these interesting […]

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4 Steps to writing a Book Review

Book review is an important skill, as unlike any other review where you want to share all the details about the product, for books, you have to make the review appealing for the reader to go and pick up the book and at the same time not give away the story.  Every book review starts […]

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Did You Know? 20 fun facts about Books

By now you all already know about my love for books and reading. Snuggling in the bed with a book in my hand or being alone and reading a good book with a cup of coffee is some thing I love.  With books, one can drift away in to an unknown world with unknown people […]