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  BOOK REVIEW KAFKA ON THE SHORE “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own hearts we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in the fresh air, and change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.”  Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. It is the story of a 15-year-old runaway, Kafka who runs away from home to escape from his father’s oedipal prophecy. Kafka’s journey is filled with books and vivid interpretations of music. Nakata, an old man, the tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life sudde

𝙱𝙾𝙾𝙺 𝚁𝙴𝚅𝙸𝙴𝚆 "𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡"  𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐎𝐭𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡. 𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐬  𝐧𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐰, 𝐀𝐱𝐞𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫.  𝐀𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡  𝐈𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐬, 𝐎𝐭𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐱𝐞𝐥 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞

This book is the story about Morrie  a Professor who  is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS]. Decides to spend the rest of his days with Dignity, Courage, Humor and Composure.  while others who were sick or diseased who were giving up on life or getting depressed .Morrie was happy with his friends and family. Talking to them about their problems, about life and much more. He starts writing bite-sized philosophies about living with death's shadow. which he used  to share with his friends. After that many people start coming to him for interviews , photographs  and one such interview with Ted Koppel made him a famous personality. Then after 16 years his Favorite Student Mitch Albom [Author] visits him and unaware about the last class which had just began. Author starts visiting Morrie every Tuesday to talk about  World, Feeling sorry for ourself, Regrets, Death , Family , Emotion, Fear of Aging , Money, How love goes on , Marriage, Our Culture, Forgiveness

The power of habit explains what an important role habits play in our lives, whether they are good ones or bad ones. Filled with research based findings and examples of people who changed their habits knowingly or unknowingly. The book not only explains how habits are formed, it also provides tips on how to change our habits, both on an individual and an organizational level. •  Habits are simple cue – routine- reward loops. For example    If you are angry or depressed then you drink, after a drink you feel relaxed or you feel happy.  Here  The Cue is : Anger, depression and anxiety  The Routine is : Drinking  The Reward is : you feel relaxed, you fell happy  •  Habits stick because they create carving.  For example  During 19th century when very few people used to maintain their oral hygiene, a company called pepsodent made an advertisement.  Which goes like this  There are  thin-film( yellow layer)  on teeth.  If you brush with pepsodent then you will have shining new tee

Author Hans Rosling gives us 10 reasons why we are wrong about the world and why things are better than we think. 1. The Gap Instinct  2. The Negative Instinct  3. The Straight Line Instinct  4. The Fear Instinct  5. The Size Instinct  6. The Generalization Instinct  7. The Destiny Instinct  8. The Single Perspective Instinct  9. The Blame Instinct  10. The Urgency Instinct The actual world is far better than we think in all the aspects of life , from standard of living to increase in  % of life expectancy to decrease in child mortality to good health care system and much more.  When we are asked some factual questions we tend to answer wrong ( most of the times) , because we  never updated ourselves. We keep in our mind what was said or taught to us in school about the world but the content in the school books is decades old and the world is changing very fast.  And this book shows as the actual facts about the Changing world ( the present world ). How different is today's world f

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