With that in mind, I started a new page to my blog that lists some books that I've read in the past and am currently reading. With every book, I hope to have some positive takeaways which I will list with each book read.
Time to time I also Pin some books I've read on Pinterest. Do take a look at some of my pins in the Books section.
Hope you'll like the takeaways and also enjoy these books in your own way.
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Time to time I also Pin some books I've read on Pinterest. Do take a look at some of my pins in the Books section.
Hope you'll like the takeaways and also enjoy these books in your own way.
Visit Jyothin's profile on Pinterest.
The Lowlan
Jhumpa Lahiri Genre: Fiction Read in 2013
It is surprising how one's childhood experiences can be so ingrained in individuals and two people with a similar childhood can end up taking completely different paths. I was surprised by how a mother can so easily let go of her child and the extent to which, sometimes, a man makes sacrifices.
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The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith Genre: Fiction Read in 2013
This turned out to be a very fresh take on detective novels. I liked the characters and the twists in the plot. It would have been nice not knowing that the author is the namesake of J K Rowling. Nevertheless, it takes a criminal thinking mind to solve a crime and catch a criminal.
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The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith
Genre: Fiction
Read in 2014
Cormoran Strike strikes again. Another interesting detective case to solve. I somehow felt this lacked the punch of the first novel. Its hard being a detective and enjoyed learning how the detective business works. Cormoran's obsession with finding the truth eventually led to finding the criminal. Also worth noting how he has built and leverages his connections for information.
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The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
Jessica Sorensen Genre: Fiction Read in 2014
Its hard to imagine what an abused teenager has to go through and who they open up to. Also, it would have been so much easier - for everyone - if Callie and Kayden had come out with the truth much earlier and not waited.
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn Genre: Fiction Read in 2014
Maddeningly Brilliant - Shit Scary
There is no extent to which one will go to teach a lesson and seek revenge. |
What if?
Randall Munroe Genre: Non-Fiction Read in 2014
The FedEx question is my favorite. I was pleasantly surprised that it is faster to transfer data in physical drives than digitally via the Internet!
Also, not sure why the obsession with everything nuclear, explosions, and blowing things up!! |
How I Braved Anu Aunty & Co-Founded A Million Dollar Company
Varun Agarwal Genre: Non-Fiction Read in 2014
As they say in bollywood ishtyle -
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi |
Gray Mountain
John Grisham Genre: Fiction Read in 2014
Occupational health hazards -
Corporate Accountability - Not all lawyers are liars... NOT - Incomplete |
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Austen Genre: Fiction Read in 1995
Honestly I found this book hilarious especially because I was 17 when I read the abridged version.
IMHO, little has changed in 'issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage' [sic] from early 19th century to early 21st century. |
Djinn
Jonathan Stroud Genre: Young Adult Fiction Read in 2005-06
As kids, who wouldn't want to be friends with a genie (or in this case a djinn).
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Unthink
Erik Wail Genre: Non Fiction Read in 2014
'I think therefore I am' is now 'I Un-think therefore I create'
Definite takeaways for someone who feels stagnated. |
  
Dilbert
Scott Adams Genre: Fiction Read in 2005 An induhvidual's essential guide to management. I have practically seen some of the atrocious things PHB's do as written in these books. Needless to say you'll still find PHB's and cow-orkers even if they don't look as illustrated in the books... you just can't miss them. I'm also a big fan of the Dilbert comic strip. |
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Brad Thor Genre: Fiction Read in 2014 If you believe the world is flat... then terrorism is flatter! "You can't always choose the situation you find yourself in, but you can choose how you react to it." |
Zero to One
Peter Thiel Genre: Non-Fiction Read in 2015
There is no formula for a successful entrepreneurial venture. There are numerous factors (both internal and external) that come into play.
In the chapter "Man and Machine", that I really liked, the author clearly lays out the role of men and the role of machines, and how both can (must) co-exist in the future. |
The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion Genre: Fiction Read in 2015
Jacket Man, Black Cap, Steroid Man, Faith Healer, Stubble Man, Ring Woman, Ant Woman, Fat Baseball Man, and many more interesting characters from the eyes of one suffering from Asperger syndrome.
The Rosie Effect
Graeme Simsion Genre: Fiction Read in 2015 A must read for a modern day version of "Its a beautiful life" with doles of comic relief. |
Business Adventures
John Brookes Genre: Non-Fiction Read in 2015
Must I be responsive to this?
;-) This is a must read for every business graduate and business man. I cannot emphasize the importance of the subtle issues that the author covers in each adventure. I'm also amazed that these adventures happened years ago but still find a place in today's business world. |
The Girl On The Train
Paula Hawkins Genre: Fiction Read in 2015
'You're all liars. Every last one of you.'
Come to think of it that's quite literally true of every character in the book! |
 Ayn Rand Genre: Fiction Read in 2007
It is hard to imagine anyone like Howard Roark in today's world.
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Walter Isaacson Genre: Non-Fiction Read in 2015
Mankind - Has been, Is and Will be - always fasinated by innovation.
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries." [sic] - Madame Curie Here are some of my favorite paragraphs from the book... "What is imagination?" she asked in an 1841 essay. "It is the Combining faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions in new, original, endless, ever-varying combinations.... It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science." "A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way." Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience." ...the term 'hacker' in its original meaning, someone who applies ingenuity to create a clever result, called a 'hack'," the club proclaimed. "The essence of a 'hack' is that it is done quickly, and is usually inelegant." |
 Michael Crichton Genre: Fiction Read in 2006
If mankind has stooped to such a level where we feel the need to unnaturally control nature,
we don't deserve to call this planet our home. |
 Allie Brosh Genre: Fiction Read in 2015
Humour is in the eyes of the beholder
(or in this case the humourist). Such as the following phrase, 'I can't not fail.' |
 
Calvin & Hobbes
Bill Watterson Genre: Comic Read 2000 - 2006 |
 Darrel Huff Genre: Non-Fiction
Read in 2015
It is easy to lie without numbers.
It is harder to lie with numbers.
This book shows how, in-spite of it being hard to lie with numbers, one still can - depending upon how one calculates, interprets, and represents numbers.
In a B-School class, I recall once conveniently omitted a few outliers in a scatter plot, simply because they did not fit the hypothesis we were testing and we so desperately wanted to prove our hypothesis correct.
In hindsight, focusing more on the outliers would have probably given us some new insights than worrying about proving a hypothesis. But then we don't get graded for disproving a hypothesis.
I once came across a published balance sheet where a decimal point '.' was moved two places to the right to make a figure in crores become a figure in 100's of crores. It was probably a genuine mistake but no one seemed to notice (not even the auditors). Such lies, however, are easy to catch.
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 Genre: Children's Picture Book Read in 2015 I used to love drawing & painting when I was a kid and still do. Although it has been years since I held a paint brush (the real one... not the electronic one). Who says colors should be restricted by what we perceive in the real world. Kids, especially, should be taught to think outside the colors of the real world. And this picture book teaches kids to do just that and something for adults to think about The colors of the real world are here to stay... they are not going anywhere nor can a kid escape them as he/she grows up. But there is nothing stopping him/her to think outside these colors. |
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Genre: Fiction Read in 2001 Don't Panic... just think Don't Think... just read Don't Read... just laugh 42 |
 Stephen King Genre: Horror Fiction (Audiobook) Read in 2015 The author has written some some really riveting horror stories. It was nice listening to this collection of short stories. Each one seems like a bad dream. I especially enjoyed 'Mile 81'. |
Last Updated: 29th August, 2015
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