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A 448-page memoir published on November 13, 2018, is the saga of how culture shapes life. The book is written by Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, the first African-American woman who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. And this is her story of zeal, emotions, and family love. Mrs. Obama's candour dissipates a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling. The book is divided into three sections: Becoming Me (my favourite), Becoming Us, and Becoming More. She invites readers into her world, chronicling her childhood hardships, her efforts during school and college, the hardship of being a professional, and then her public life. There is one baseline of the book (i.e. beside her own life) which is the persistent conversation about her family, her husband, and her journey of motherhood. What I loved about her writing is that she kept it real. The fear, triumphs, anxiety, hopes, disappointments, etc… She tells her full story as she has lived it. The...

  A recent movie adaption of this novel with the same title Where the Crawdads Sing led me to this read. Although the movie is yet to be watched, this book has left me with a spellbinding story. The novel captivated me with its mystery till the end. The story revolves around the wild girl named Catherine “Kya” Clark also popularly called “The Marsh Girl,” or “swamp trash”. She is a figure of paradox and prejudice in the remote North Carolina coastal community of Barkley Cove in the 1950s and '60s. The novel tells the tale in two timelines that slowly intertwine. The first timeline describes the life and adventures of a young Kya as she grows up isolated in the marsh of North Carolina. The second timeline follows an investigation into the apparent murder of Chase Andrews, a local celebrity of Barkley Cove, a fictional North Carolina coastal town. Abandoned by her mother who is no longer able to withstand her drunken husband’s beatings and then by her four siblings, Kya grows up in ...

  Disclaimer- This post is part of trait-series-for-kids which I began to search and write for my kids in 2019. With this series of blog posts containing knowledge-slash-experience, I pray from the almighty that our kids have a simple but magical life. The contents of the series are the outcome of a rigorous search, several readings and first-hand experiences, and self-reflection. Nae Salanghaneun Adeul , (In Korean meaning My dear Sons)      As you grow, there shall be extents in life when you might feel glued. The things around, passing scenarios, existing dilemmas, and even the behaviour of loved ones might not be making any sense to you. Your dreams may be looking distant, the purpose for the moment lost and you may start wondering about the ultimate game of life. The questions about your existence start challenging your efforts and actions. But in these times, you must conserve the highest of hope and faith that some transformation is near. It is because the c...

Looking for a dose for improving the thinking patterns … This is the book. Everyone should read it. That’s it!!! This book is apt for a reader like me who wishes to know about different and exciting concepts related to human behavior and dig deep into the mysteries of human emotions. The whys and hows of the sophisticated concept of human thinking find an interesting articulation throughout the book. It is jotted down in a tone that is easy to understand and outlines the theme deeper in the reader’s mind. Thinking, Fast and Slow talks about varied topics and subtopics which especially include… Concept of "Two selves" (the experiencing self and the remembering self), two types of thinking systems (System 1 and system 2), topics related to illusions of understanding & confidence, the process of choices, WYSIATI (What you see is all there is) , etc. These themes written in finite pages present infinite possibilities of comprehending the “human thinking process” as “ simpl...