The One Book You Recommend Us To Read......
Honestly speaking, this thread is not about any book review. It is about a thing which i love the most and i wanted to share with all the fellow CEians.
A majority of students in India suffer from a problem. The problem is tackling the mental pressure of failure and people, especially their relatives before giving their most important board exams. Experiencing their suggestion, as the results are announced is also a herculean task one has to go through . You think you are free after the results but they have their list of statistics gathered from their trusted sources ready to boggle your mind even further.
In my case, my result brought a shock wave to my relatives . I failed to crack IIT-JEE and AIEEE exams where my cousins and others scored very well and got into NIT's etc. Although i managed to get a decent rank in the state entrance exam, i failed to satisfy their expectations.
I don't know how others dealt with it. But it made me an introvert and slowly separated me from social meetings. Negativity was all around which completely flourished by separating me with the things i liked to do. I stopped talking to my old friends, relatives and
finally i stopped reading literature, which i liked the most.
However, things started to normalize soon after my college life began. New environment, new friends worked like an elixir for me. #-Link-Snipped-# , whom i met in college has always helped me with moral support and in no time I started feeling positive. The ecosystem which I experienced #-Link-Snipped-# also lifted up my spirits. Good semester scores, teacher's support made me capable enough to remove the negativity out of my life. But the one thing which wasn't restored fully was my interests. Things which I really wanted, things which made me happy.
After visiting the Kolkata International Book Festival which started a few days ago, i began to feel the urge of reading again. The fair was filled with loads of books from various genres and i guess seeing my friends ( CEians )@Aishik Biswas , #-Link-Snipped-# buy few initiated the spark within me. Though i didn't bought anything in the fair, my friends noticed what i felt and proposed me to offer books which i wanted to read.
Now after all the jabbers, here is the main issue. Given that there are plenty of books in the market, which one i should begin with looks like a very tough task. I remembered once that i got a giveaway from Goodreads and decided to start with that.
The name of the book is #-Link-Snipped-# , written by author <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14191468.Debajani_Mohanty" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Debajani Mohanty (Author of The Curse of Damini)</a>. The book deals with a fiction based story which portrays the society and the position of women during the pre and post independence period in Bengal. Set against the era of 1940, the book narrates the story of a Hindu girl who from a teenage freedom fighter becomes the seasoned writer of the 21st century.
While reading the book, i experienced for how long i was away from such an experience and really connected myself with it. I loved it and drew inspiration from the book's lead character and i really learned a lot from my first book.
The thing is that now i want to read more and yes i do know that Goodreads is the best place to know about great books but i am sorry to say that for a person like me who has just initiated the reading process is finding difficulty to go through that book world.
I would like to know from my CEians team which one I should start reading next in order to meet myself. Sharing your thoughts here would help me to develop a stock of good literature and would also help other CEians to come across classic masterpieces. We can develop a book-lovers thread here as well where we can share our experiences about new books that we engineers come across during our four years of undergraduate study.
Though, I started this thread by saying this is not about a book review, i would like to say that this is about all the engineers #-Link-Snipped-# who are bookworms, who love to read and want to share what they feel about the book they are currently reading, what they felt and what they found common between them and the story of the book they read.
Tagging few whom i know #-Link-Snipped-#, #-Link-Snipped-# , #-Link-Snipped-# mam and #-Link-Snipped-# sir , i would be very happy to know what you all are reading and which one you recommend us to read and look forward to ..........
A majority of students in India suffer from a problem. The problem is tackling the mental pressure of failure and people, especially their relatives before giving their most important board exams. Experiencing their suggestion, as the results are announced is also a herculean task one has to go through . You think you are free after the results but they have their list of statistics gathered from their trusted sources ready to boggle your mind even further.
Though the scenario is completely different as most of the youths make their own preference now a days, these pressure always make you opt for a different approach which you think can save you from all these. However, at the end, forcing you to become what you aren't.In my case, my result brought a shock wave to my relatives . I failed to crack IIT-JEE and AIEEE exams where my cousins and others scored very well and got into NIT's etc. Although i managed to get a decent rank in the state entrance exam, i failed to satisfy their expectations.
I don't know how others dealt with it. But it made me an introvert and slowly separated me from social meetings. Negativity was all around which completely flourished by separating me with the things i liked to do. I stopped talking to my old friends, relatives and
finally i stopped reading literature, which i liked the most.
However, things started to normalize soon after my college life began. New environment, new friends worked like an elixir for me. #-Link-Snipped-# , whom i met in college has always helped me with moral support and in no time I started feeling positive. The ecosystem which I experienced #-Link-Snipped-# also lifted up my spirits. Good semester scores, teacher's support made me capable enough to remove the negativity out of my life. But the one thing which wasn't restored fully was my interests. Things which I really wanted, things which made me happy.
After visiting the Kolkata International Book Festival which started a few days ago, i began to feel the urge of reading again. The fair was filled with loads of books from various genres and i guess seeing my friends ( CEians )@Aishik Biswas , #-Link-Snipped-# buy few initiated the spark within me. Though i didn't bought anything in the fair, my friends noticed what i felt and proposed me to offer books which i wanted to read.
Now after all the jabbers, here is the main issue. Given that there are plenty of books in the market, which one i should begin with looks like a very tough task. I remembered once that i got a giveaway from Goodreads and decided to start with that.
The name of the book is #-Link-Snipped-# , written by author <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14191468.Debajani_Mohanty" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Debajani Mohanty (Author of The Curse of Damini)</a>. The book deals with a fiction based story which portrays the society and the position of women during the pre and post independence period in Bengal. Set against the era of 1940, the book narrates the story of a Hindu girl who from a teenage freedom fighter becomes the seasoned writer of the 21st century.
While reading the book, i experienced for how long i was away from such an experience and really connected myself with it. I loved it and drew inspiration from the book's lead character and i really learned a lot from my first book.
The thing is that now i want to read more and yes i do know that Goodreads is the best place to know about great books but i am sorry to say that for a person like me who has just initiated the reading process is finding difficulty to go through that book world.
I would like to know from my CEians team which one I should start reading next in order to meet myself. Sharing your thoughts here would help me to develop a stock of good literature and would also help other CEians to come across classic masterpieces. We can develop a book-lovers thread here as well where we can share our experiences about new books that we engineers come across during our four years of undergraduate study.
Though, I started this thread by saying this is not about a book review, i would like to say that this is about all the engineers #-Link-Snipped-# who are bookworms, who love to read and want to share what they feel about the book they are currently reading, what they felt and what they found common between them and the story of the book they read.
Tagging few whom i know #-Link-Snipped-#, #-Link-Snipped-# , #-Link-Snipped-# mam and #-Link-Snipped-# sir , i would be very happy to know what you all are reading and which one you recommend us to read and look forward to ..........
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