Crisp Reviews of Books On My Nightstand

  Are you a fan of castles, royals, gossip and fiction? If the answer is Yes then you are going to love this book cause its the perfect combination of our beloved chic-flicks like Princess diaries, The gossip girls and The Crown. Having said that I would still recommend that if you decide to read this book then you would have to start with no expectations in mind to really enjoy this book. There are mixed reviews about the plot, the storyline, characters and the vicious interactions between them. Personally, I feel that the fictional stories needs to be given some levy for not adhering to the bland reality of life and have freedom of exploring the highs and lows of imagination driven storyline.  The storyline is broken in four perspectives for one of each of the four protagonists and all perspectives are interweaved into each others lives so delicately that the reader gets the feel of their emotional attachment/detachment with each other and how they interact with the rest of ...

  I have had my fair share of reading management books during my MBA days and now I am sort of averted by them mostly because of all the heavy jargons and anecdotes typically used in those book that makes reading monotonous. So when I was searching for my next book read, I definitely wasn't looking for a business book. But you do get intrigued a little bit when Bill Gates mentions a book as 'A business book I would actually recommend'.  To be honest, I have always been fascinated by Disney as a company and what it stands for. Not only its a biggest media company in the world but also has an interesting history about how did it get here? I was looking for a book that encapsulates that journey with "Disney magic" and this was it! This book is an autobiography of the former Disney CEO Robert Iger, who has played a monumental role in making Disney the Mammoth it is now.  He is the person who led Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, Lucasfilm (which is basically all Star War...

‘Living The American Dream’ has been rooted in the hearts of every ambitious, middle class Indian kid who had seen around the perks of having a job ‘abroad’ (parallel word for USA for most of them). But the time which gave rise to this fascination was somewhat different in the beginning. It was an era when scholar kids with strong financial background used to go abroad for higher education because of less education opportunities in our own country. Here is a story from that time which encapsulates a year in the life of a scholar kid, Gopal, from a small town in India who goes to America for higher studies. Barely able to speak English but carrying high appetite of knowledge, Gopal reaches the American university & struggles to understand the American culture.  Fortunately (or unfortunately), he meets this friend-classmate-helper weirdo, Randy, who introduces him to an intriguing new world of American way of life. Gopal then meets various kinds of people there – Anan...