Book Reviews
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What relationships have a positive impact on you? At first, I was skeptical about giving credit to a single relationship for having a positive impact on my life. Over the course of our lives, we meet countless people, some closely related to us, others complete strangers yet many of them leave behind small but meaningful
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The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld is a dark, emotionally unsettling debut novel that won the International Booker Prize in 2020. As the title suggests, this book deliberately leads the reader into emotional discomfort, exploring themes of grief, faith, childhood trauma, and silence within a deeply religious household.
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Who are the biggest influences in your life? https://euphoricread.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/from-home-to-work-the-people-who-shaped-my-journey/
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Is your life today what you pictured a year ago? Perhaps it is that phase when life begins to push you from every direction or rather, press you in from all sides. Personally. Professionally. Slowly. Relentlessly. The walls don’t rush toward you; they move inch by inch closer,until one day you realize how intensely you
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What’s your favorite cartoon? People get shocked when I say this… but I never watched cartoons growing up.Yes, zero. Nothing.Not even Chhota Bheem. Not even Mickey. Not even Doraemon asking anybody ‘kya hua Nobita?’ I grew up in a rural village where we had a color TV but only one channel: DD National. There was
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What positive events have taken place in your life over the past year? As this year comes to an end, I find myself looking back with a quiet honesty.When I try to recall positive events from 2025, nothing immediately stands out. Not a milestone, not a major achievement, not a dramatic change.But that doesn’t mean
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“The purpose of life is not to get what you want, but to become who you are meant to be.” “Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.” “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of
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“You can’t know what it’s like for someone else, and so you have to just let them be, and love them as they are.” “What she thought was good for her family was a lie she had told herself, just like everyone else.” “We are all the sum of our choices.” “Sometimes you can do
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” We live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” “The purpose of life is not to get what you want, but to become who you are meant to be.” “Time slips through our fingers like sand, so make sure you’re doing the things that truly matter.” “Live with intention, walk to the
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I picked up this book out of curiosity.I wanted to understand how the son of an industrialist could turn into a terrorist. What pushed him onto the path of violence? That’s what led me to read the biography of Osama Bin Laden. The events revealed in the book didn’t come as a surprise to me.
