![]() ![]() His messages are always filled with a bundle of surprises. Now, this introvert friend of mine goes on and on, in our Whatsapp chats. It took him 1 year and 9 months to actually make the impossible possible. ![]() So, basically, they are the introverts being able to express themselves only due to the grace of the internet (Whatsapp). One sentence is a rare thing and answering, in brief, is next to impossible. That very moment the curious girl inside me peeped out and decided to discover him as and when possible.Ī textrovert will answer in one word wherever he can. He just refused to look into my eyes while we had a formal handshake (as the meeting was a formal one). My first acquaintance with him was itself a mysterious one. I’ve known this friend of mine for 2 years now. So just thought of elaborating those extra-ordinary characteristics a textrovert possesses. Ignoring the latter part of the meme as of now, let’s concentrate on the former. Someone being extravagantly expressive in texts, now that’s fascinating, isn’t it? It was as though the meme was just written for him. His and my chats kept flashing in front of my eyes. And the exciting part of all this was, the textrovert himself sent this to me.Īnd I pondered on the thought of how interesting textroverts can be. ![]() Textrovert is someone who is expressive and funny in texts but shy in person. Until one of my friends sent me a meme, I was only aware of these two words – introvert and extrovert. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He has hidden himself from the world after he killed countless and turned the tides of the war years prior. Max is a war hero, extremely grumpy, and hates The Order. The one place and group that can teach Tissanah how to use her magic, and the one group that can help her free the slaves she left behind. Ara is a continent across the world, and home to The Order. She raises the money to buy her freedom, kills her captor, and crosses the world to make it to Ara. Tissanah has magic and is desperate to escape her owner’s house. Her unique looks are a telltale sign of her abilities. In the series this is not explained by science but instead by magic. Her unique looks, mismatched eyes, black and white hair, and vitiligo. She was taken from her homeland and was sent to work for the Threllian nobility. So, I will be keeping the overview extremely brief because you must read the series to have some clue of what I am talking about.īook one opens with Tissanah Vyztic, a young girl who was enslaved eight years ago. ![]() This book has an extremely complex magic system, world building, politics, and a lot of morally grey characters. I will be reviewing the entire series, but I will only recap the first book, no spoilers here. But I will absolutely buy the book to have physical copies of. Because of that, I can look at a book and decide if it will give me a ‘book hangover.’ I found myself having this issue with Daughter of No Worlds by Carissa Broadbent. I have been an avid reader for many years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Oregon Trail follows a modern covered-wagon trip he took with his brother across the entire 2,100 miles of the trail in the summer of 2011, charting more or less the same path that sent some 400,000 migrants west before the Civil War. Thomas Hart Benton or the Missouri Compromise than to actually know something about America’s basic means of transportation for a century.”īuck’s dogmatic, at times unhinged devotion to mules turns out to be a great gift to his book. History’s vain gatekeepers ignore this plain truth, Buck writes, because “it is a lot more prestigious for professional academics to sound learned about Sen. ![]() Though historians and erstwhile computer games agree that oxen pulled more covered wagons across the trail, Buck-with great bluster-argues that wagons and mules were a transformative economic force invaluable to the nation’s westward expansion. ![]() As Buck tells it, their name shifted along with America’s westward movement, from the Kentucky mule and Tennessee mule to, in the 1840s, the Missouri mule.Īs the breed became more coveted, it also became big business, leading to genetic chaos and schemes to get rich off mule-hungry pioneers. Washington’s mules, originally sired by the accurately named Royal Gift, would first be dubbed American Mammoths. An offspring of a male donkey and female horse, mules do not occupy an especially cherished place in the American imagination today, but they did in the 19 th century. ![]() ![]() Written with honesty and heart, Forward is an inspiring blueprint for individual growth and a rousing call to action. Wambachs book goes beyond the soccer field to reveal a soulful person grappling with universal questions about how we can live our best lives and become our truest selves. She has become a heavily requested speaker to a wide a range of audiences, from college students to executives at Fortune 500 companies.In this edition of Forward thats been adapted for young readers, Abby recounts her own decisions, wins, losses, and the pivotal moments that helped her become the world class athlete and leader she is today. In Forward, Abby recounts her own decisions, wins, losses, and the pivotal moments that helped her become the world class athlete and leader she is today. Admired for her fearlessness and passion, Abby is a vocal advocate for womens rights and equal opportunity, pushing to translate the success of her team to the real world. ![]() ![]() Far more than a sports memoir, Forward is gripping tale of resilience and redemptionand a reminder that heroism is, above all, about embracing life’s challenges with fearlessness and heart. Womens soccer team captain, delivers an inspiring middle grade memoir. Named by Time magazine as one of the most influential people of 2015, the iconic soccer player captured the nations heart when she led her team to its recent World Cup Championship. With stunning candor, Abby shares her inspiring and often brutal journey from girl in Rochester, New York, to world-class athlete. Abby Wambach, World Cup champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and longtime U.S. ![]() Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mandella’s platoon is soon sent to the planet Charon to complete basic training in the hostile environment of space. A fully integrated force, the army encourages sexual relations among its members, and Mandella obliges with Rogers, a biologist in his platoon. In basic training, Private Mandella learns many ways to kill, both hand to hand and with the military’s latest technology. The military and the United Nations Exploratory Force soon start a war with the Taurans, seeking to establish footholds on “portal planets,” bodies orbiting collapsars. As they begin to colonize unknown parts of the galaxy, they run afoul of the Taurans, an alien race that, military authorities claim, has attacked an Earth vessel, although evidence of the attack is sketchy. In the future, humans have discovered “collapsars,” wormholes that allow high-speed space travel across vast distances in very short periods of time. ![]() William Mandella, a recent graduate with a degree in physics, is drafted into the army under the Elite Conscription Act, a law that seeks to fill the military ranks with only the best and brightest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taste of her Blood began as a simple story revolving around two individuals who will do anything to stay away from each other but eventually transcends into a tale of a world marred by blood and secrets. ![]() What conditions can make such a deal seem sensible? They are bound by this stupid contract their dying adults put them into which doesn’t make any sense at all. ![]() The Taste of Her Blood is set upon the backdrop of a strange deal done between the guardians of our protagonist -Vishwa and Tina. I have read some of her previous works and loved the intensity and mystery she effortlessly delivers through the genre of paranormal romance fiction. Today’s book of the day is The Taste of Her Blood by RH Rose. As much creative liberty this genre provides an author, the creation of a character (paranormal one) that relates to an audience already aware of the multitude of creatures is not an easy task.This genre requires a special magical quality that transcends throughout the plot. Though it is unfair to completely endorse this genre in these lines. And some stories drop us right in the middle of eerie woods.A story that is set upon the backdrop of dark wilderness,shady men ,weird iconography and forced coincidences makes a genre known as paranormal fiction.A fiction if executed with perfection delivers a narration with an irresistible mystery and the intensity is literally palpable.īasically this genre includes all the vampire, werewolf and shapeshifter plots enhanced by heavily laden sensual energies between the protagonists. ![]() ![]() This doctor drafts cyborgs as expendable test subjects none survive. But then the heart-thumpingly cute prince approaches Cinder’s business booth as a customer, starting a chain of events that links her inextricably with the prince and with a palace doctor who’s researching letumosis vaccines. Her two sisters will attend Prince Kai’s ball wearing elegant gowns Cinder, hated because she’s a cyborg, won’t be going. Long after World War IV, with a plague called letumosis ravaging all six Earthen countries, teenage Cinder spends her days in New Beijing doing mechanical repairs to earn money for her selfish adoptive mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although it packs in more genres than comfortably fit, this series opener and debut offers a high coolness factor by rewriting Cinderella as a kickass mechanic in a plague-ridden future. ![]() ![]() Half the stuff Panati lists as "facts" are more like opinions of "folklorists" or citations from questionable history. I got to about page 70, and lost interest. ![]() Highly recommended for anyone interest is history popular culture word origins and origins of many of our customs and inventions. The author does point out that these are the best estimates available at time of writing. Of course, some of the history might be debated-especially back in the times of the ancient world. I just wanted to pick up some neat and interesting facts about history-and this book succeded in that. Of course, with so much informationb I cannot recall everything nor do I plant to. a picture is worth a thousa nd words, they say-and I always enjoy old phtographs and engravings. ![]() The illustrations from older books reprinted here I found added much to my please. ![]() Many people might just dip into this type of book just looking for certain infomration-but I read it entirely and found the writing well well organized and fun. The author sorts by various criteria-origins of superstitions holidays customs inventions and much more! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the academia and the intelligentsia in the country always, continuously, played an active role of whitewasher for all the atrocities and bloody deeds done by the British in India. British Rule, except its further digging into the divide already existing in India because of Mughals, did not bring anything constructive to the country. ![]() Today, I will be discussing his acclaimed book An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, published in 2016.Īn Era of Darkness reveals or rather breaks open what has been hidden for many decades by the ‘liberal’ historians of India who could not realise that they were doing a great disservice to the nation for the reasons they knew the best. ![]() This is something no one can extract from his credits’ list. However, it is for sure that Shashi brings new things, traditional things in innovative ways as well as peculiar experiences for the readers. His literary contribution, in terms of intellectual and aesthetic widening of the horizon of Indian English literature, can be a subject of conjecture. Tharoor’s books have created quite a notable impact on the readers from India as well as other nations. Shashi Tharoor, who is famous for his dexterity with women, is a well-known scholar and as an author, his name has already crossed the geographical boundaries of India and reached the nations far off. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he gingerly entered the room, Dominic shut his eyes, hoping his friends would spot him before he walked into someone or something. He drew a sharp breath and all but threw open the door of Lady Carlton’s drawing room. The grave strains of something Germanic rang through the door. On this occasion, he had at least managed not to be announced and that was an appreciated mercy. The latter boldness seemed highly prized in the society circles he found himself in of late. As Dominic reached for the door handle, he was torn between a slow turn that would announce him like a thief at the feast, and the fast turn that signified a healthy disregard for punctuality. You can always like my Facebook page to make sure you get updates! In fact, why not pop over there right now…? So I thought I might as well let you take a sneaky peek at the first chapter in its entirety ahead of publication. I did publish the opening sequence in my last post. 2 months and 2 weeks to be precise.Ģ months and 2 weeks (give or take a day) since I finished the latest novel, Dominic. ![]() |