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Author: Suhail Mathur Total Pages: 308 Total approximate words: 72000 The Hunt for Rama’s Bow, is the ‘Adventure one’ from the series ‘The Vishnu Chronicles’. I got this book as a hand out from my sister, who in her own way love books, a selected few rather I would say. Other than dresses, books are what we exchange with each other as our way of saving the cost and still have more books and dresses. Classic book lovers right! Back to the book, the story is based on characters from the Hindu mythology Ramayana. If you are not from India, Ramayana is basically a long epic story like the ‘Lord of the Rings’, but is considered of religious significance. The main characters of the epic are worshipped on a massive scale by the Hindus all over the world. So, if you like reading mythological stories, you may dig into this one! SYNOPSIS The protagonist Mohan, studying in Delhi University, is the perfect bachelor... physically attractive, intelligent, teacher’s favorite and has the hottest girl of the University as his girlfriend. Samaria, every man's dream girl, is the girl friend, daughter of a minister and wears brands like Jimmy Choo and Versace to college. They both are history students. Out of the blue, Mohan gets a letter one day from his bed ridden grand father to come and visit him in a place called Sahastrapur. Around the same time, he also sees a hooded floating entity, more than once, who mysteriously disappeared every time after lurking around for some time. According to Mohan, his grandfather was long dead, before even his parents passed away. But nevertheless, he decides to take a bus to this village where his supposedly grandfather wants to see him before he leaves for the heavenly abode. His best friend Raj, a movie buff and an admirer of Mohan’s wit and intelligence accompanies him to this trip to Sahastrapur. Once at his grandfather’s palatial home, Mohan is told that he is destined to kill the evil king of the Asuras Dashavanakoka and marry princess Alankrita who is a captive of the demon king. With the help of random strangers who turn out to be possessed with magical powers, Mohan decides to take on the adventure by going back to time, seven thousand years ago. Once, the group reaches its destination, they figure out that they have to solve numerous puzzles, obtain celestial weapons, including a golden chariot and slay many powerful guards of the demon king to make it to the Fortress of Dashavanakoka. Throughout the mythical journey, Mohan saves the group, by solving puzzles with his ever-shining intelligence. In one such occasion, the group had to fight a demoness that had the power to turn any human into a statue of copper. Mohan uses the camera from his cell phone to trick the one-eyed demoness to see her own reflection and her own boon backfired on her as she turned into a copper statue herself. Later on, one of his friends from the group made Mohan an armor of the copper statue which happened to save Mohan’s life many times through out the journey by reversing the direction of the arrows directed at him back to his enemies who were shooting. In yet other occasion, Mohan kills a Tiger all by himself in the deep forests of Zahoba. He further solves a puzzle given by another demoness in the Thar desert all by himself using his intellect. Through out the journey, at various points, Mohan learns surprising yet significant information about the characters of Ramayana from his friends. He also learns that two of his friends Jayadev and Ranvijaya were in fact Raavan and Kubhkaran in their previous lives. These two friends use their magical powers to help Mohan defeat one of his enemy, the Jalasur, who was sent by Dashavanakoka. In a separate incident Mohan defeats three Ogres all by himself by the use of some Chili powder and the powerful sword of Bhavani that one of his friend stole from the National History museum in Mumbai. After many such fights with demons and creatures of magic, the group finally reaches the kingdom of Dasavankoka with all the celestial weapons needed to defeat the demon king. As the group rests for the night in an abandoned hut inside the jungle, three of Mohan’s friends are abducted by the Kaal Sarps who consisted the army of Dasavanakoka. By next morning, when the remaining three people including Mohan realised that there friends were abducted, he requests Jayadeva, and Ranvijaya, the ones with the magical powers to go and save them while he will look for the golden chariot which was the second last thing he had to find in order to defeat his enemy. As fate would have it, by the time Mohan comes back to the hut, he finds all the other celestial weapons missing from there. A dejected Mohan this time finds help from Vibhishan, who had the boon to walk on earth until the end of the time, also known as Chiranjeevi. Mohan finally finds the weapons and also comes to know the whereabouts of the golden chariot. Unable to find the abducted friends in the prison dungeon, the two friends return with another prisoner who was taken into captivity by Dasavanakoka after conquering the kingdom Virajaditya, father of Princess Alankrita. The prisoner shares information about the five remaining wheels for the golden chariot. The group declares war by the next morning. Once again with Mohan’s intelligence, many of the Kaal Sarps are killed by their own arrows after they bounced back from Mohan’s armor. But the sheer number of Kaal sarps outnumbered Mohan and his friends by thousands. In order to help Mohan continue the fight, Jayadev and Ranvijaya create a safety valve around them. All kinds of weapons were futile now as the safety valve protected them inside while letting Mohan shoot arrows to the enemy. Seeing this, the demon King orders the entire army to take their original form of snakes and attack the safety valve. Unfortunately, the transparent safety valve was rendered useless as soon as the snakes spit their venom onto it. Just at the right time, appeared the mighty bird and yet another mythological bird from the Ramayana, the Garuda. The gigantic bird who is the sworn enemy of the snakes, caught hundreds of snakes at once with its claws and took them to the other side of the forest. The bird continued doing so until it got rid of all the snakes. Jayadev exclaimed in happiness on the arrival of Garuda and thanked Lord Vishnu for sending the bird at the right time. Garuda then lifted Mohan’s chariot high up in the air to reach to the top of the five hundred feet high palace, where Dashavankoka’s heart was kept protected near a red flag. Since the demon King’s life was in that heart, all Mohan had to do was pierce the heart with the Kodanda, Lord Rama’s bow. Mohan further strikes the king with the sword of Bhavani, one last time before the lifeless body of the demon king fell in his chariot. Flowers pours from the sky on Mohan for defeating the Dasavankoka. The princess is saved and handed over to Akhand, the commander in chief of Virajaditya, as the duo were in love before fate divided them briefly from each other. After bidding their goodbyes, the group teleports themselves to their present time zone, outside the Safdarjung hospital in Delhi. As Jayadeva and Ranvijaya takes one of the friends to the hospital, Mohan and Raj, rushes to meet Samaira’s house. In her father’s helicopter, the four travel to Tamilnadu, to Mohan’s uncle who was a historian and archeologist to tell him about the whereabouts of the stones used to make the original Raam Setu. Mohan was informed about the stones by Vibhishan who narrated how Kumbhkaran’s gigantic dead body fell into the ocean and pushed the rocks further deep into the sea bed. Mohan’s uncle elated at the new piece of information seeks the permission of his superior to do the required investigations to find the rocks for real. With the combined initiative of both the Indian and the Sri Lankan government, hundreds of divers are sent in the ocean to look for the rocks. As expected, the rocks are found and Mohan and his friend Raj are awarded with a huge sum of money by the government for helping find and restore the stones of such historic evidence. What I liked in the story? Easy to understand, simple narration. Interesting camouflaging of mythological characters into present day mortals. The author’s attempt to create a story by combining the mythological aspects and the modern-day outlook, with usage of occasional humor through one of the characters Raj, the movie buff. A twist towards the end was quite unexpected. What I didn’t like about the story? Lack of depth in the characters. The characters were either from the mythological era, who already had a reputation of its own and didn’t need much introduction or understanding, or straight up modern-day people whose characterization wasn’t indulged as one would expect in any narration. Instead, the characterization was flat and there was no scope for the reader to really understand how the characters thought and why they thought so. Details were missing, in the characters and in the story. Even though there was time travel involved, but how that happened wasn’t described appropriately. Small gaps in the story line. Many, many challenges for the protagonist was described throughout the story to finally save the princess, which kind of made it monotonous and a bit boring. CONCLUSION Pick up this book if you don’t have very high expectations. Readers interested in mythological readings might enjoy the book, but honestly, I would personally prefer Amish Tripathi’s books any day if I want to read such story lines. I kind of dragged myself in finishing the book because that is one of my principles about reading; to finish what I started. I was tempted to close it once and for all after 30% of reading the book. So, for readers who have just started reading fictions, this book could be one of the books to read. It will at the least help inculcate the habit of reading into you. For readers looking to engage their minds, this is definitely not the pick. All in all, I would give this book, a 4/10. Below is my breakdown. Ease of reading: 6/10 Character/ Plot building: 4/10 World Building: 3/10 Do let me know your opinion about this book through an email or post it in the comments section. Best five responses will be featured in the website. Happy reading! PS This review is based on my personal reading of the book and understanding it with my own limited experiences.

Authors: Abhijit V. Banerjee & Esther Duflo Total no. of pages: 402 Total approximate words: 1,08,540 My only source of getting information about the winners of Nobel Prize is the social media. Facebook, to be precise. Whoever is behind their social media presence, is doing a pretty good job! The page regularly updates not only about the laurates, and their inventions, but also share interesting backstories, about what led to certain inventions. Then there are these candid photos and stories, about the laurates, that adds the ‘color’ factor and makes it appealing to a mediocre like me. So, through this page of ‘Nobel Prize’, I came to know about Abhijit V. Banerjee, one of the three Nobel Prize winner for Economics in 2019, and the second Indian to receive it in the same field. The first one was Amartya Sen. Not disregarding the fact that Banerjee is probably an American citizen now, but him having roots in Bengal, intrigued me to know more about his research and studies. And my hungry eyes for books started looking for anything that this Bengali man wrote. And viola, I bumped into ‘Poor Economics’! SYNOPSIS The book focuses on the problem of poverty, in third world countries, majorly in Asia, and Africa. The authors, along with their teams and NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) in different countries have created exercises over the years and have implemented them at the grass root level. These included, education, microfinance, health, policies, and politics. The book explains the poverty trap, and how hunger and poverty go hand in hand. Because the poor cannot afford to eat enough, it makes them less productive and keeps them poor. The authors give live examples of such impoverished people, and puts light into their way of thinking and dealing with their poverty. Surprisingly, for a lot of hungry people, buying more calories is not the number one priority. In their eighteen-country data set on the lives of the poor, food represented from 36 to 79 percent of consumption among the rural extremely poor. And it wasn’t because of other necessities. A lot of households in fact spent on alcohol, tobacco, and festivals. It talks about how cheap prevention is easier to afford than an expensive cure. An example of how a disease like diarrhoea can be easily prevented in countries like India, and Zambia, with the usage of subsidized ingredients like chlorine and ORS (Oral Rehydration Solution), or Malaria, with the usage of just a bed net. Sadly, high absenteeism rates and low motivation among government health providers are certainly two reasons that this preventive care is not being delivered as expected. In India only, 56 percent of the time, the government facilities were found to be closed, and only 12 percent of the cases were because the nurse was on duty somewhere else near the center. The rest of the time, the employee was simply absent. Furthermore, even when the doctors and nurses were present, they did not treat their patients particularly well. The book also tackles questions on, if poverty comes down to top-down education policy, and the massive differences in the quality of education provided in government and privately owned schools. Also, if fertility rate is directly proportional to financial savings? And its relation to the difference in treatment that a boy child gets compared to a girl child. Why does the poor want large families? Why the poor people are like the hedge fund managers? And what can they do to cope with the risks that come with it? Why don’t they want insurance? Number of examples are seen through out the book about different grass root problems and their viable solutions. One such is microcredit and its importance for the poor. The authors share their experiments of microcredit success, as well as its limitations. They talk about the psychology behind savings and why the poor lack the self-control to save more and what can be done to encourage them to save more. Citing corruption at every level as one of the major causes of the fallacies in implementing the many policies, the authors give many examples of such shortcomings. Rulers who have the power to shape economic institutions do not necessarily find it in their interest to allow their citizens to thrive and prosper. They may personally be better off with an economy that imposes lots of restrictions on who can do what, and then selectively relaxing some of them to their own advantage, thereby weakening competitions, which would enable them to stay in power. The book also explains about why for the government, even the one with well intentions, it is still a challenge to do its job. Majorly because the government is trying to do what the free market could not do, which essentially makes it a fundamentally difficult job. What further makes it complicated, is that there is no easy way of assessing the performance of most people who work for the government, which is why there are so many rules for what the bureaucrats should and shouldn’t do. The result of which is an endemic corruption. The book shows many examples that actually throws direct light on such grave issues. The authors conclude the book, by stating how the economic growth of any nation is directly proportional to its manpower and brain power. The whole idea of ‘be at the right place at the right time’, is possible only when people are well fed, are educated, and healthy, which in turn would make them feel secure and confident to invest in their children and in their own creativity of nurturing wealth. Policies that specifically focuses on keeping people from striking out because of anger, frustrations, violence and the feeling that they have nothing to lose, might be a crucial step in protecting the future of many nations that aspire to leave the tags of ‘underdeveloped’. What I really liked in the book? Simple style of writing. Ease of reading. Despite being written by academics, the entire interphase of the book is designed in a way that the message reaches to all kinds of people. The many examples of people from different countries with impoverished background, which helps in identifying and pin point the actual grass root level problems. The other examples that show the relations between poverty, hunger, illiteracy, high fertility and corruption. The book is written in such simple style, that I would not mind calling it ‘economics for dummies’. What I didn’t like in the book? Lack of examples from developed countries, about how poverty (however minimal) is managed there. What kind of policies are made keeping in mind the poorer sections of the society and what ensures the almost non-existent corruption in such places? My favorite excerpts: ‘Instead of raging against their destiny, the poor have made things tolerable by reducing their standards.’ ‘Our typical reaction when we are confronted with problems like poverty, is to be generous. But our second thought is often that there is really no point, and that our contribution would be a drop in the bucket, and the bucket probably leaks.’ ‘Poor countries are poor because they are hot, infertile, malaria infested, often landlocked; this makes it hard for them to be productive without an initial large investment to help them deal with these endemic problems. But they cannot pay for these precisely because they are poor--- they are in what the economist call a “poverty trap”,’. ‘The combination of elevated expectations and little faith can be lethal.’ ‘Fertility decisions are made by a couple, but women end up paying most of the physical costs of bearing children. Not surprisingly, their preferences for fertility end up being quite different from those of men.’ ‘For many parents, children are their economic futures: an insurance policy, a savings product, and some lottery tickets, all rolled into a convenient pint size package.’ ‘Good policies can also help break the vicious cycle of low expectations: If the government starts to deliver, people will start taking politics more seriously and put pressure on the government to deliver more, rather than opting out or voting unthinkingly for their co-ethnics or taking up arms against the government.’ ‘The political constraints are real, and they make it difficult to find big solutions to big problems. But there is considerable slack to improve institutions and policy at the margin. Careful understanding of the motivations and the constraints of everyone (poor people, civil servants, tax payers, elected politicians, and so on) can lead to policies and institutions that are better designed, and less likely to be prevented by corruption or dereliction of duty. These changes will be incremental, but they will sustain and build on themselves. They can be the start of a quiet revolution.’ FINAL RATING Ease of reading: 8.5/10 Writing style (to keep the reader engaged): 8/10 Resonating to the reader (moving, and relatable): 7.5/10 Overall, I would definitely recommend this book if you are into thought provoking writings about the world economics, policies, corruption and poverty. Happy reading! Do let me know your opinion about this compassionately written book through an email or post it in the comments section. Best five responses will be featured in the website. PS This review is based on my personal reading of the book and understanding it with my own limited experiences.

Author: Erich Segal Total Pages: 187 Total approximate words: 39,270 If you have fallen in love, ever in your life, you would love this book. It is exactly what the name of this book is, a love story. Although the sheer quantity of words, could actually make it a very long short story, instead of a full-fledged novel (personal opinion). But given that, there is no denying that it is a book worth reading if it gets into your hand. Kind of how actually I ended up reading this work of fiction. Thinking about it, I must have bought it in an airport during one of my transits, perhaps. And along with my other books I must have neatly put this one too, in my book shelve, to read later. Almost eight years later, as I was rearranging the entire lot in my room, at my parent’s house, I finally decided to give this ‘once a best seller’ during the 1970s, a chance. After all, a love story can never be disappointing. SYNOPSIS Oliver Barrett IV, 20, is from the very affluent family of Barretts who happen to be phenomenally wealthy and highly known for their aristocracy. Oliver, who is in Harvard, falls in love with Jennifer, an American with Italian descent and a music major in Radcliffe. Both young, twenty years old, a bit snobbish in the beginning towards each other, like most young lovers, and then madly in love with each other. So much so that, they get married, even without Oliver’s father’s consent. Not that he cared much for his family’s permission to marry the love of his life. Jennifer gives up her scholarship to pursue music in Paris to get married to Oliver who was preparing to go to law school. The couple goes through temporary hardships with only Jennifer’s salary of a school teacher as Oliver pursues his degree in Law. Once graduated, he bags an excellent offer from a reputed law firm in New York and the couple moves there. Their marital life was just at this exciting and romantic corner when things start to fall apart as Jennifer is diagnosed with a life-threatening sickness. Within a few weeks of diagnosis, and after four years of marriage, Jennifer dies of leukemia, leaving Oliver all by himself, with a heart that only longed to be with her, and nothing and no one. What I liked in the story? That it was a love story. That it was short and didn’t unnecessarily drag the story just for the sake of it. That the words used were easy to read and understand. The style of narration was simple and straightforward. What I didn’t like in the story? It was a flat story. Mediocre story line and narration. CONCLUSION It is a good one time read, if you are into love stories, only. Not essentially mind stimulating, or heart wrenching like Love stories usually are. But then again, every book is supposed to be different. Don’t expect to be surprised, keep an open mind and just enjoy the simplicity of the book. As much as it was the best seller during the 1970s, I would rate this book a 6.5/10. To break that down for you, Ease of reading: 7/10 Character/ Plot building: 6/10 World Building: 6/10 Do let me know your opinion about this ‘best seller’ book through an email or post it in the comments section. Best five responses will be featured in the website. Happy reading! PS This review is based on my personal reading of the book and understanding it with my own limited experiences.

Author: Barack Obama Total pages: 442 (Including epilogue) Total approximate words: 1,48,000 words A little back story before I write my few cents about this awesome book. I bought this at the airport on one of my travels back to my hometown, Siliguri, IN 2015. Don't remember which airport it was, but buying books at any store for me is the equivalent of a huge foodie who gets excited at the mention of any good restaurant. Since Barack Obama and my father are of similar age, I though to gift the book to him. Mind you, he isn't an avid reader. He is however, an extremely social person. I didn't give him the book with any hopes of getting his opinion of it. Kind of like, no strings attached gift. Six years later, when I temporarily moved to Siliguri from Dubai, to my parent's house, I saw the book gathering dust by my dad's bedside. I asked him how was the book. Plainly, he replied that it was good book. Not based on my dad's opinion at all, I took the book from him, and started reading it. In a few days, stretched over two months, in between my work and chores, a bit of Netflix, and social media, I finished reading the book. That familiar feeling of accomplishment in finishing a book warmed my heart, but it was more than just a good read. And below is why do I say so. This gorgeous gorgeous book is a memoir of Barack Obama, the 44th U.S. President. I say gorgeous because, firstly, I personally love indulging into memoirs, and secondly a memoir by an affluent personality in his/her own words feels immensely personal to read. The details of their lives somehow makes it relatable to its readers, something that a biography kind of fails to do. SYNOPSIS Obama has penned his life story from childhood to the time of his marriage to Michelle Obama. The emphasis is majorly on his childhood all the way to being an organizer, just before he gets into Law school. He shares about his childhood days in Indonesia, and the details about the differences in the American and Indonesian culture which affected little, his own time there, but caused a bigger difference between his mother and his step dad who was an Indonesian. As a result of which, the boy is sent back to the States to his grandparents, to continue his studies. It is there, that he meets his own father for the first time, Barack Obama. The brief meeting for a few days wasn’t enough for him to understand or even know much about the man who gave him life. Throughout his school and college years, Obama always felt like he belonged to the black community more than the white, despite having a white mother and being raised in a white family. His college years were filled with a certain amount of regression on realizing the racism around. His pursuit of finding his roots finally takes a turn after he finishes college, and moves to New York, where he meets Marty, who recruits him as an organizer. Obama later moves to Chicago, and continues working as an organizer, whose main task was to support local black communities in coming together to solve the many overlooked and obvious problems of the community with the help of the local governing authorities. After a few years while securing some success in his efforts, he gets accepted at Harvard Law School. Before he finally steps into the next chapter of his life, he decides to visit his father’s place, Kenya for the first time. He travels throughout Kenya with his step sister, to meet all the relatives, where he also learns many, many things about his father, grandfather and the forefathers. The epilogue concludes the book with Obama briefly sharing about his short meeting with his youngest step brother George. In his pursuit to learn more about his father’s tribe Luo, Obama meets a historian in Nairobi, Rukia through Auma. The three talk about the pasts and presents of black people, not just in Africa but in the States as well, all over an authentic African dinner. The trip completes with Auma and Obama going to Mombasa for a day by the coast, and then returning back to Nairobi in a supposedly expensive bus that actually assigned seats to its passengers. In the years that followed after the trip to Kenya, Obama finished his law from Harvard, meets his wife, Michelle and takes her to Hawaii for a family introduction. He continues to accelerate his efforts in supporting black communities, by working with churches and community groups. LINES THAT MADE ME SMILE AND MIGHT MAKE YOU TOO! ‘Honesty—Lolo should not have hidden the refrigerator in the storage room when the tax officials came, even if everyone else, including the tax officials, expected such things. Fairness—the parents of wealthier students should not give television set to the teachers during Ramadan, and their children could take no pride in the higher marks they might have received. Straight talk—if you didn’t like the shirt I bought you for your birthday, you should have just said so, instead of keeping it wadded up at the bottom of your closet. Independent judgement—just because the other children tease the poor boy about his haircut doesn’t mean you have to do it too.’ *(Lolo was Obama’s step father, and the above conversation was between little Barack and his mother Ann on the values that makes a human being.) ‘Everybody was welcome in the club of disaffection. And if the high didn’t solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world’s ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and cheap moralism.’ ‘Well….there was a woman in New York that I loved. She was white. She had dark hair, and specks of green in her eyes. Her voice sounded like a wind chime. We saw each other for almost a year. On the weekends, mostly. Sometimes in her apartment, sometimes in mine. You know how you can fall into your own private world? Just two people, hidden and warm. Your own language. Your own customs. That’s how it was.’ ‘What is our community, and how might that community be reconciled with our freedom? How far do our obligations reach? How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love? The answers I find in law books don’t satisfy me—for every Brown v. Board of Education I find a score of cases where conscience is sacrificed to expedience or greed.’ CONCLUSION Of the many memoirs that I have had the opportunity to treat my mind to, Barack Obama’s ‘DREAMS FROM MY FATHER’ has made it to the top shelve. The language used through out the book is so very easy to understand and the way the entire memoir has been weaved is so relatable. Many times, the experiences shared in the chapters have made me smile as I read into them, thinking that I might have been in similar situations, for a moment even forgetting that the man who wrote about such experiences was no ordinary man! That is how beautifully it is written! An optimum usage of details about the author’s personal life without any irrelevant or unnecessary stretch. That’s clever writing for me, to know what to omit and what not to. Below is my final rating for this wonderful, wonderful memoir. Ease of reading: 10/10 Writing style (to keep the reader engaged): 10/10 Resonating to the reader (moving, and relatable): 10/10 If you love reading stories that are personal, relatable, and leaves your heart a little bit warmer than what it was, DREAMS OF MY FATHER is the book for you. Do let me know your opinion about this brilliantly written book through an email or post it in the comments section. Best five responses will be featured in the website. Happy reading! PS This review is based on my personal reading of the book and understanding it with my own limited experiences.

I remember the first time I walked into a room full of strangers. Some twenty odd people, all in their early twenties, some even less, and one middle aged gentleman. Everyone looking sharp in their business attires, and neat hair do. Even some of the men looked so pretty that it was intimidating! I mean I was not the best-looking person in any room all my life, but having men this good looking was like god’s way of having fun with my self-esteem! Anyway, that room full of gorgeous men and women was an interview room for an airline. It was scary to say the least. Born and raised in the outskirts of an extremely tiny town, I didn’t even know how an airplane looked from the inside. And there I was, competing with all those pretty faces to be a flight attendant! Of course, my chances were bleak, like the fairness on my skin, which was a major criterion. My armpits were sweating, and so were my palms and feet. I was anxious, even before the calm middle-aged man started talking about the interview process! Finally, when my turn came, I overcompensated my average looks with my above average communication skills. In short, I yapped, quite a lot, in fact more than anyone else there! Ten years later, I am feeling exactly the same, as I write this very first blog for my website. Nervous, anxious, fear of not being good enough. These fears of mine has always been real, for I have repeatedly met individuals who were astoundingly better than me in every aspect possible. But over the years, I have learnt that, it doesn’t matter. I would still march on with everything that I have, and hopefully make it worthwhile for myself, and for those who accepted all that I had, have to offer! By the way, I got rejected in that interview. And in the seven more that followed. I eventually made it on the ninth interview, three years from the very first one. Please, feel free to introduce yourself in the comments section, and do subscribe for my latest blogs about all kinds of books, their reviews and updates about ‘new books to read for free’ on TBW.