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My Thoughts On "The Courage To Be Disliked"

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            Book- The Courage To Be Disliked Authors- Ichiro Kishima & Fumitake Koga           This book is a conversational style book. Throughout the book a youth and a philosopher are discussing ways of life and different philosophies to live life by.           The books starts when a youth goes to a philosopher to solve or to find answers for the questions he has about life, and from there a dual starts with the philosopher giving answer with the help of different philosophies and the youth finding ways to contradicting these philosophies. The Adlerian psychology is followed by the philosopher and most of his conclusions are based on that theory.           The book discusses various topics like value of self, validation from others, Life tasks, Anger, Courage, Inferiority complex, Superiority complex,  Interpersonal relationships, Self-acceptance, Tra...

My Thoughts On "Five Survive"

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Book- Five Survive Author- Holly Jackson                 This book is for the people who read a book for that "who done it?" feeling. It doesn't just keep you on your toes but also keeps you wondering what's coming! It made me feel anxious, and scared for the characters, sometimes even frustrated but mostly empathetic. Moreover I could feel what those characters were feeling. This one being from my favorite author made it that much special.              The book starts on a neutral note where our 6 characters, Red, her best friend Maddy, Maddy's brother Oliver, his girlfriend Reyna, and their friends Arthur, Simon are on a road trip to go to their school trip. I won't bore you with the character descriptions. Noy they are travelling in a giant RV, and while looking at maps they miss their exit and end up on a narrow road. After a while they can't turn the RV so they keep going until they are in an open...

My Thoughts on "Three Thousand Stitches"

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  Book- Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives Author- Sudha Murty          This book consists of 11 small stories each of which delve into personal experiences from Sudha Murty mams life. These personal experiences teach us some lesson now it's up to the reader to draw their own conclusions is what I feel.          In one of the stories she shares her experience about how she pursued her engineering degree in time when it was mainly male based domain. Her struggles are empathetic and understandable. Also she adds a story about her trying to help the local prostitutes in just having a little control of their life and it snowballing into a very big thing.          This is a self explanatory book so I won't write more. Hope you have fun reading this.