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Over the years, I have tried my best to keep up with all the reading I could. And in doing so, I've read quite a many books, it gives me immense happiness to have nourished my soul and brain, with a large volume of novels. Last year I discovered a phone application for reading, named Blinklist. And I think its simply amazing, because you get to listen to one NON - FICTION audiobook for FREE! This encouraged me to get hold of a lot of non-fiction literature into my head. And its simply amazing. Blinklist Books I've listened to; Loserthink : How untrained Brains are running America The 3 minute rule - Brant Pinvidic The man who solved the market : Gregory Zuckerman Moon: P,P,Future - Ben Moore Wheat Bully - William Davis We are All Weird - Seth Godin The call of the wild & free - Ainsley Arment  small creatures such as we - Sasha Sagan The power of  nunchi - Eury Hong Its all in your head - Russ Finding Chika - Mitch Albom Unleashing the ideavirus - seth godi...

"Pictures....they say a 100 things....what does yours say??" I  love photography. Its the best captures I make with my phone. Of all the different aspects of life that I get hold of, this one is specially my favourite - the sunset. Its a priceless time of my day - at sunset. What do I see in it? I dont think its very unpopular among you all. Everyone simply loves watching sunsets or taking pictures of them. What remains and stays with us, is what does that sunset mean to us. I would like to sum it up this way - Photographed by the Author - Giselle Gonsalves My kind of sunset, Makes me feel grateful for today, And gives me a new promise for  tomorrow. -ggwrites The sky looked simply spectacular that day at sunset and I couldn't resist capturing it. 

Here I share with you my strength, my faith, my perseverance. To all those women out there, have you had a pain so severe that it just stops you from going ahead?? No, never give up. Hope is what we preserve today so that we may see a beautiful tomorrow. I had the privilege of writing a diary then, in spite of my condition. To be frank with you, I was bed ridden. Yes, on my day 74 at the hospital, I share with you thoughts and words from my diary. I was 7 months pregnant, diagonised with gestational diabeties and was on complete bed rest. I wrote my diary in that same position. I ate just the same way. I drank water and took my medicines the same way. They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, oh sorry, for me it was, a prick a day kept my sugar levels at bay. Every three to four days I was pricked for a blood test check. I prayed that way. I listened to my music that way. I read whatever I asked my assistant to get a hold onto, a newspaper or a magazine. I held on tight to m...

“We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage.” Malala Yousafzai’s book tells us so much more than what we would have ever conceived of reading in her book. Definitely a book to read and a human to be inspired by, in today’s world. On Reading #iammalala I thought the book was brilliant. But Malala, she is even more !! Such a beautiful book that I took so long to finish reading and I do not understand why so. I am so glad to have enjoyed reading and completing the same. A real page turner. Here is so much to learn from culture, religion, politics and many other fields. A young girl captured my heart with her brave charisma. Such a character who can lead by example and teach us to be patient, aim for your goals, be tirelessly kind, yet effortlessly simple. I think I now know who Malala is!! 

How often does a book touch your life? Do you take note of all the wonderful things that you experienced while reading a book? I thought it would nice to write down a few of my favourite notes from this powerful non fiction. If you want to know, then yes I do keep a journal such as this. A book where i note down all the wonderful books read during the year, in addition to these bumper texts. Page 87 …lifetimes measured in lessons learned and tasks fulfilled, not years; charity, hope, faith and love; doing without expectations of return – Page 111 Hathor, I later learned, was the Egyptian goddess of love, mirth, and joy. Page 112 Patience and timing . . . everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass thought different phases. Th...

Dear Readers and bloggers and all of you out there. I just about read my first novel written by a Chinaman. To begin with, I want to ask you all a very simple question. What is love? Im sure all of you, at some point in your life have pondered upon this question. Well, is it important to live your life in love or is peace of mind more important. Ha Jin has very well written such a beautiful story with a simple prose. It gives me joy to tell you how clearly he has bought out certain topics that influence our everyday lives. How often do we envy another and say, “Oh, how green is the grass on the other end”. How much do we know or understand about how easy or difficult is another one’s path. We judge, without knowing. We assume, without asking. We take it for granted, without putting ourselves in their shoes. We live our daily lives, taking for granted each and every blessing we have received. We find faults in what we have and fail to understand that we may be blessed with more t...