Review #710: Lean Days by Manish Gaekwad

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city”

----Roman Payne

Manish Gaekwad, an Indian journalist turned writer, has penned a heart touching travel-fiction book called, Lean Days which is a very personal journey of an artist/writer across the country through multiple cities and myriad of souls, food, culture, customs and religions to find love, all the while reminiscing about his past, along with that city's significance in his life. A journey that will not only touch millions of souls but will also inspire the souls to express their individuality and sexuality without any fear and also to wander to find oneself.

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Review #638: The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad, Ingrid Christophersen (Translator)

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.”

----Margaret Mitchell

Åsne Seierstad, an Award winning journalist-turned-Norwegian-author, has penned a delectable and slightly captivating account of her stay with an Afghan family, who owned a bookshop in a terror-stricken and on-the-verge-of-a-civil-war type Kabul in the year 2002, in the book called, The Bookseller of Kabul. This is the personal story of almost every human being, mainly women of the household, from the bookseller family, with two wives and tons of children and an equally great number of siblings, the bookseller is a subtly liberal man of his times, that only demanded women of each and every household to stay indoors and keep giving birth until their last dying breath.

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Review with giveaway #246: How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time by Nina Amir

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.” 

----George Bernard Shaw

Nina Amir, a best-selling American author, has penned an inspiring book or rather say author's manual guide for getting published without any problem, How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time , where she have elaborately laid out all the steps of how to make your book famous even before getting published or rather say search engine friendly blog posts.

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Review with Giveaway #244: Calming the Chaos by Jackie Woodside

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” 

----Henry Adams, an American author

Jackie Woodside, an American psychotherapist, pens her new book, Calming the Chaos: A Soulful Guide to Managing Your Energy Rather Than Your Time, which has already been offered in training programs around the country, which is about how to channel your energy thereby winning over time and chaos.

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Review #223: Out from the Underworld by Heather Siegel with giveaway and author interview

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.”

----Valerie Owens

Heather Siegel, an American author, pens her memoir called, Out from the Underworld where she narrates about her mother's sudden disappearance, living under shabby conditions, abandonment, foster care and finally standing strong through all the challenges in her life.

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Review #222: Life Outside the Box by Marilyn R Wilson with giveaway and author interview

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

----Winston S. Churchill

Marilyn R Wilson, an American freelance writer/editor, pens her debut book, Life Outside the Box: The Extraordinary Journeys of 10 Unique Individuals that is based on the lives of ten inspiring as well as successful personalities who have given a definition to the meaning of the word, success, in their own terms.

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