Monocle’s first ever book, The Monocle Guide to Better Living looks at the different aspects of the quality of life and offers their insights on how and where to live better. A wonderful collection of writing, reports and pictures of different places to live. A […]
Current mantra, “I got my mind on my money, my money on my mind.” I had high hopes for this year. When I lost something late last year, I had even higher expectations for myself and got a little bit crazy about it that I’m […]
I had Sarah Manguso‘s memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay for years, but never opened the book until two weeks ago. I picked it up from my shelf randomly and I’m glad I did. I’ve always liked the way she writes. Sarah’s Illness While Sarah […]
Iain S. Thomas started I Wrote This For You in 2007. It was one of my favorite blogs of all time. In 2011, the first book was published. There were more I Wrote This For You books after that. Two weeks ago, as a thank you, the book […]
Marina Keegan was an American author best known for her essay “The Opposite of Loneliness” which she wrote for Yale University’s school paper. It was for their commencement exercises in 2012. She died at 22, five days after she graduated magna cum laude from Yale University. […]
I believe I’m past the crisis of wondering whether I should be where I am right now and has been riding the wave pretty successful for quite some time until now, I realized the importance of time which is kind of frightening. Before, when I […]
I’m currently reading Stop What You’re Doing and Read This!. I’m enjoying it so far and it really makes me want to read more. As if I needed to remind myself of that. My bookshelf at home filled with new and old unread books is enough. […]
Eid holiday is over. I think I need some time to get used to going back to work 8 hours a day again. Went back to the office last Tuesday and man, it was dragging. It feels like I accomplished a lot and time is […]