No matter how you are READING …

The joy of reading books can't be described in words. It's something that you understand only by real experience.

When you spend several hours reading a book, you create a world of your own in your mind. You fill this world with different characters and scenes. This increases your imagination powers and helps you to think about your ideas more visually.  

The advance of technology has dramatically changed the way students study and teachers teach. One major innovation came in the form of tablets and e-readers, which enable students to study, make notes and read assignments without the need for physical textbooks. Both textbook forms have advantages and disadvantages, and the final decision on which works best comes down to your individual needs and study habits.

Digital will continue to grow for a while at least, and continue to exist, because it is becoming part of the world. Ebooks are here to stay because digital is, and quite shortly we'll stop having this debate about paper vs ebooks because it will no longer make a lot of sense.

By the same token, paper has a place in our hybrid future. Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things. You still can't flick through an ebook properly; you can't riffle the pages, you can't look at more than one page at once. And the advantages of having a book in digital form (easy scrolling text, proper shareability, a global text search of your library, synchronisation with audiobooks, links to television adaptations, person-to-person sales) have been ignored in favour of a weak simulacrum of paper. Better, a lot of the time, to shove a paperback in your pocket. And for when you forget, well, there's still your phone.

Whether you read on some electronic device or prefer reading a real book, that's your personal choice. Personally, I prefer to read real books whenever possible because even after hours of reading my eyes feel fresh and full of energy. That's something I don't feel when I read too much on my computer.

A book imparts knowledge, and not only knowledge but wisdom, wisdom of all kinds…simple letters that matter, instructions to recipes, to theories to stories, to science and technology to engineering, to news to history, to media to entertainment…well the list goes on and on. So don’t think how you are reading..through a real book or digital…just grab and read…wherever and whenever…atleast I do this…

 With Love

Dipali

Ref-http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/mar/31/paper-vs-digital-reading-debate-ebooks-tim-waterstone

http://www.singhrahul.com/2012/08/the-importance-of-reading-books.html

Maha Kumbh of Literature

The wait is almost over. Jaipur Literature festival is back from 21 – 25 Jan 2015.

 JLF, which began in 2006, is now regarded as a cultural catalyst within India and around the world, exposing audiences to a constant flow of ideas. Featuring live music sessions and interactive workshops, the Festival provides a space to dare, dream and imagine.

The five day festival that is known to bring out an infectious energy and unrivalled magic to the state capital, is all set to begin from jan 21.well known people from different walks of life will make their presence felt at the festival.

According to the sponsors this year around 234 speakers will participate in the festival, and a further 117 musicians, speakers and artists, will take the number of festival participants to 351.

A perfect blend from art and culture….JLF

with love

Dipali

Sudha murty is one of the eminent author in the world of literature world.With more then a dozen books in her name,she is considered as  one of the foremost authors in Indian literature who is the voice of women. Yet another book from the treasure trove of Sudha Murty-:

Sudha Murty’s new book comprises two novellas that explore two quests by two different men—both for mothers they never knew they had.

The first novel, deals with Venkatesh, a middle-aged man with a wife and two grown-up kids who discovers a decades old family secret and his dilemma about righting the wrongs of his dead father.

Venkatesh is a bank manager, stumbles upon his lookalike one fine day. When he probes further, he discovers his father’s hidden past, which includes an abandoned wife and child. Ventakesh is determined to make amends to his impoverished stepmother—but how can he repay his father’s debt?

I really enjoyed this story; Venkatesh was such a nice man, with old fashioned values and morals. A total dad like character. The way in which this old mystery/secret comes out and the way in which he goes about piecing the truth was all very interesting and compelling. Along with Venkatesh's investigation into the past and the myriad characters we meet through his journey, we also see Venkatesh's family- money and status obsessed wife and son. His daughter who is more like him and is his confidant when it comes to his on-going struggles. It was nice reading about this family and how even in the same family people can be so significantly different from each other.

Mukesh, a young man, is shocked to realize after his father’s death that he was actually adopted. He sets out to find his biological mother, but the deeper he delves, the more confused he gets about where his loyalties should lie: with the mother who gave birth to him, or with the mother who brought him up.

While this was nice, very fast paced story, bits of it were a little far-fetched and slightly didn't ring true.

The two men are bound by the same dilemma and the same complexity of emotions and it is important for them to find their way back to bring stability in their lives. The core interest of the book is in exploring if it is really possible to come to terms with a reality as blaring and as deceiving as that of Venkatesh and Mukesh.

The Mother I Never Knew is a poignant, dramatic book that reaches deep into the human heart to reveal what we really feel about those closest to us.

 I really enjoy her works. Her writing is simple and soothing and full of nice people and life lessons. They are incredibly easy reads and I fly through her books and really enjoy her stories.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

 With love

 Dipali

Ref-

http://www.amazon.in/The-Mother-Never-Knew-Novellas/dp/0143422251

http://www.currentbooks.com/the-mother-i-never-knew.html

http://thewhimsybookworm.blogspot.in/2014/08/review-mother-i-never-knew-by-sudha.html

"Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

Mitchell David Albom is an author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have collectively sold over 35 million copies worldwide; have been published in forty-one territories and in forty-two languages around the world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies.

Latest release of Mitch Albom

The first phone call from heaven

“Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.” 
― Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven

One morning in the small town of Coldwater, Michigan, the phones start ringing. The voices say they are calling from heaven. Is it the greatest miracle ever? Or some cruel hoax? As news of these strange calls spreads, outsiders flock to Coldwater to be a part of it.

At the same time, a disgraced pilot named Sully Harding returns to Coldwater from prison to discover his hometown gripped by “miracle fever.” Even his young son carries a toy phone, hoping to hear from his mother in heaven.

As the calls increase, and proof of an afterlife begins to surface, the town—and the world—transform. Only Sully, convinced there is nothing beyond this sad life, digs into the phenomenon, determined to disprove it for his child and his own broken heart.

Moving seamlessly between the invention of the telephone in 1876 and a world obsessed with the next level of communication, Mitch Albom takes readers on a breathtaking ride of frenzied hope.

The First Phone Call from Heaven is a virtuosic story of love, history, and belief.

My Favourites-

Tuesdays with Morrie

 

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” 
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.” 
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination, but an answer. 

In heaven, five people explain your life to you. Some you knew, others may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"

 

For One More Day

 

“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.” 
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

For One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?

As a child, Charley "Chick" Benetto was told by his father, "You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both." So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.

Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. And he decides to take his own life.

He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing discovery. His mother who died eight years earlier is still living there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened.

What follows is the one "ordinary" day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled pieces of his life back together.

Through Albom's inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will newly appreciate those whom they love and may have thought they'd lost in their own lives. For One More Day is a book for anyone in a family, and will be cherished by Albom's millions of fans worldwide.

Refrence-:

http://mitchalbom.com/d/books/15802/first-phone-call-heaven

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/25035204-the-first-phone-call-from-heaven

The Cuckoo’s Calling

The Cuckoo’s Calling by author Robert Galbraith was doing an average business. Since April, 1500 copies had been sold, until it was leaked that the crime novel was actually written by none other than the queen herself, JK Rowling (JKR)! The leak propelled the novel to number one and reprints were ordered. Her fans were ecstatic and did all that we could to get our hands on The Cuckoo’s Calling. As it turned out, the book didn't disappoint at all. However, JK Rowling has expressed her anger because she didn't want her false identity as Robert Galbraith to be leaked to the media; she enjoyed the liberating experience of writing under a pseudonym without any hype and expectations, according to her.

The book synopsis:

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.

Even with the confusion surrounding the novel, "The Cuckoo's calling" has jumped to 1 on the bestseller charts.  Rowling has expressed her desire to continue writing under the pseudonym, and continue "The Cuckoo's Calling" story line to expand into another series. 

With Love

Dipali

Ref-:

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/07/j-k-rowling-new-book-under-pseudonym

There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder……

 ….Writer of a very Popular Book My Ex Fell In Love……Shubham is from Jaipur and Recently Completed his B.Tech from MNIT Jaipur…He is a Intellectual Boy with Few Extra qualities ****:) …. In his work you will find humor, intelligence, wits, honesty, love,and some other good things. I enjoyed his book…and I hope You too will Enjoy….But Before reading his book lets chat with shubham..With me…..so,here I have an exclusive interview with Shubham choudhary for all the readers of bookjunction.blogspot.in

  Dipali- Tell Me about Your Novel?

 Shubham-  It’s a story about Yatharth, a researcher whose life is disturbed by the uninvited  love he encounters. Twists and turns come his way and hilarity ensues when he tries winning   back the love he once     ignored.

Dipali- Which of your character (in the book )Is your favorite? 

Shubham- Does a mother ever say which kid is her favourite? Although I enjoyed writing Vikalp’s part the most. He’s also one character who is highly appreciated, as much as Yatharth’s father.

Dipali- Where do you find your inspiration to write?

Shubham-From every little thing in life. Everything, people, books, objects and others… they all have a story to tell. You just need the write vision.

Dipali- Who are you reading right now?

Shubham- Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games) and Amish Tripathi (Secret of the Nagas).

Dipali- what are the biggest influences on your work?

Shubham- Probably my ability to have a lot of free of time despite being involved in every second thing one can imagine and the inner force that doesn't let me sleep unless I complete writing any idea that comes to my mind. I like multitasking, helps me have some time to write in peace.

Dipali- what else do you do besides writing?

Shubham- A lot of things. I just completed engineering so I’d soon be starting my job in Oracle Softwares. I also like to sing, dance and sometimes develop android and windows apps. My passion for RJing is also well known to people who know me.

Dipali- Food you eat every day?

Shubham- Whatever mom makes. I love it. Although I am allergic to onion, something which is a bliss given the prices!

Dipali- Do you still Watch Cartoon?

Shubham- Oh yeah! Exclusively. Although I don’t get the new ones that come these days. I still love Donald, Duck tales and Batman of course.

Dipali- Your Celebrity Crush?

Shubham- Scarlett Johansson and kind of Parineeti Chopra these days.

Dipali- Your Current project?

Shubham- Finishing my second book.

Dipali- Is this book inspired by your real life experience?

Shubham- Haha!  No way. Some instances might be, but I am too immature to have a love story of my own. And research! Please!

Dipali- Would you like to convey any message to all those who are in love?

Shubham-Let me think. Well, since you’re in love, any sensible advice isn’t going to work. Just this one thing, respect your partner and maintain your priorities in the right order. If it needs efforts and excuses, it’s not a relationship.

To buy the book: www.bit.ly/myexfellinlove

Book on goodreads: www.bit.ly/bookgoodreads

Facebook: www.facebook.com/myexfellinlove

Contact me on : shubham.author@gmail.com

 With Love

  Dipali

Only Guinness World Records has the answers to the question that move the world

Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U.S. editions as The Guinness Book of World Records), is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of World Records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series of all time. It is also one of the most frequently stolen books from public libraries in the United States. Guinness World Records states several types of records it will not accept for ethical reasons, such as those related to the killing or harming of animals. Several world records that were once included in the book have been removed for ethical reasons, including concerns for the well being of potential record breakers. For example, following publication of a "heaviest fish" record, many fish owners overfed their pets beyond the bounds of what was healthy, therefore such entries were removed. The Guinness Book of Records is the world's most sold copyrighted book, thus earning it an entry within its own pages. A number of spin-off books and television series have also been produced. Each edition contains a selection of the large set of records in the Guinness database, and the criteria for that choice have changed over the years. The newest records are added, and the records that have been updated are added too.

Lucky Diamond Rich is "the world's most tattooed person", and has tattoos covering his entire body. He holds the Guinness world record as of 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.

Sultan Kösen (Turkey) is the tallest living person since September 17, 2009, as determined by Guinness World Records.

Guiness world Records 2013 is out……

 Abbie-g Longest Wave Surfed By a dog

 Amy Varney-Most Mashed Potato Eaten

Largest Telephone 

 Archie-Smallest Bull

Darlene-Flynn-Shoe Collection

3,000 new entries

You’ll find an estimated 4,000 records – and countless facts – throughout the book. Here’s a good fact you should know: each year, at least 75% of the content is brand new!

Infographics

New to the 2013 edition is the infographics panel – a strip running down the page packed with amazing stats, facts, titbits and trivia… all presented in an engaging, reader-friendly way.

The Book is available to read online on below mention URL

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/preview-2013/en/index.html#/12/

With love-

Dipali

Ref-

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.in/GWR-2013/,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records