Tag: book review
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BOOK REVIEW: Dare To Be You — Pakistan’s First English Self-Development Book
When the COVID-19 pandemic began and I started working from home, I bought into the uproar on social media about having more free time. My first, and perhaps only, resolution for this “extra time” was to read more books, and, in line with everyone’s suggestions about learning new skills and working on one’s own self,…
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10 must-read books from 2019
With the winter chills settling in, all we want to do is snuggle in front of the heater and possibly read a good book. Kamila Habib of My Bookshelf Pk rounds up this year’s must-read books: 10. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens What a brilliant debut novel. A heart-warming yet disturbing story of…
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Book review: ‘The Testaments’ keeps the reader engrossed till the end
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is the much-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale which has almost a cult following around the world. The book was released with much fanfare and publicity and recently also won the Booker Prize along with Girl, Woman, Other. The reactions to the book, however, have been divisive. The Testaments picks…
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Elif Shafak’s ’10 minutes 38 seconds’ is thought-provoking, insightful and relevant
“We must do what we can to mend our lives, we owe that to ourselves – but we need to be careful not to break others while achieving that”. The main theme in Elif Shafak’s new book 10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world is kindness and tolerance, or rather the lack of them…
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Big idea into a successful business? Read this book
The first thing you need to know about the book “Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days” is that it’s been written by the guys at Google. Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz are three partners at Google Ventures, an organisation that helps entrepreneurs by investing in…
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Popular Fiction: Don’t feel like you’re Normal?
It’s a trend now. To talk about the non-conformists, the ones who don’t fit in and the ones who don’t want to. In her 10th novel, Japanese fiction author Sayaka Murata doesn’t make up a story. She calmly and incredibly coolly takes us into the world of the straight face life of a “convenience store…