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Book Review: The Start-up Founder's Guide To Digital Marketing

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Book Name: The Start-up Founder’s Guide to Digital Marketing Author: Pramod Maloo Publication: Harper Business Genre: Non-Fiction (Marketing, Management) For many start-up founders, digital marketing feels overwhelming, expensive, or meant only for experts. The Start-up Founder’s Guide To Digital Marketing by Pramod Maloo is a structured, step-by-step manual for start-up founders to understand digital marketing in a nutshell, starting from scratch. Review Most often, founders find it difficult to navigate the challenges that come with not being able to make effective use of digital marketing to expand their brand, product, or business. This book acts as a tool to empower entrepreneurs to handle digital marketing on their own. The book is divided into three sections: - Learn the Game - Play the Game - Slay the Game It is thoughtful of the author to craft these sections, as running a business is like a game with multiple levels. First, the gamer learns the game, then plays it, and...

Book Review: Many Ramayanas Many Lessons

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Book Name: Many Ramayana Many Lessons Author: Anand Neelakantan Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Non-Fiction Many Ramayanas Many Lessons by Anand Neelakantan is a non-fiction novels which explores different Ramayans and the lessons they delivered with the essence of different culture and retellings across Asia.   Review This book presents different versions of the Ramayana, including Valmiki, Buddhist, Southeast Asian, Tamil, and Jain, woven in the words of playful and insightful commentary on the lessons and the truths within tales over the Ramayana era. Through his research, in this book, the author has explored his views not strongly supporting any tale, yet inviting readers to learn about different stories that are unknown from the Treta Yuga. With all the knowledge gathered for writing this book, the final work is a collection of thoughts and stories to tell the world how the Ramayana evolved, as per the ones who wrote their versions of it. Readers who love to reflect upon...

Book Review: The Diary of an Author

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Book Name: The Diary of An Author Author: Ajitabha Bose Publisher: Ajitabha Publishers Genre: Non-Fiction, Autobiography The Diary of An Author by Ajitabha Bose is the first ever hand-crafted novella based on the author’s life, and his struggles.   Review It is an autobiographical journey of the author exploring his struggles, heartbreaks, and his journey through all the odds he faced. From a nobody to becoming a pioneer of pocketbooks, he wanted to inspire people through his journey, and this book is unlike other autobiographies or biographies as it only holds some parts of his life, from which he wanted to motivate people to never give up on their dreams. Things that set this novella apart include: Handcrafted diary: Ajitabha is known as an author who brings unique style books, from pioneering pocketbooks to crafting this diary; he is setting high standards for upcoming generations of authors. It is the first-ever novella that is handcrafted. It is a personalised experience t...

Book Review: My Jeans Fit Well & The Ice-Cream Didn’t Melt

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Book Name: My Jeans Fit Well & The Ice-Cream Didn’t Melt Author: Manali Desai Publisher: Ukiyoto Genre: Humour (Non-fiction) My Jeans Fit Well & The Ice-Cream Didn’t Melt by Manali Desai is a humorous treat to her life’s raw and unfiltered moments.   Review The book is a collection of 150+ moments and gestures from the author's life, reflecting glimpses of joy, happiness, the mundanity of her life, and little junctures that are often overlooked in the race of life. Each anecdote comes with a whimsical illustration depicting a real-life moment from the author's routine. Two things make this book stand out: the first is that readers can relate to many anecdotes, and the second is the simplicity with which each anecdote is written and portrayed with illustrations, featuring a communication bubble between the characters in the illustration and sometimes it’s just the author thinking out loud in those bubbles. However, there is one thing that can divert readers from the ...

Book Review : Going Beyond Impossibilities

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Book Name: Going Beyond Impossibilities Author: Abha Jha Publisher: Self-Published Genre: Non-Fiction Format: Kindle Print length: 114 pages  Rating: 4.5/5 Going Beyond Impossibilities by Abha Jha is a non-fiction book that talks about resilience and will power in life through the author’s journey through a tragedy. Blurb GOING BEYOND IMPOSSIBILITIES by the author Abha Jha is a self-help book that aims at sharing the secrets of inculcating strong willpower to achieve anything in life that might seem impossible at the outset but becomes a milestone in one's journey. The book unravels the ways to explore the power of the hidden self within everyone that is dauntless, relentless, and, a conquering hero having the potential to survive any calamity. It intends to spread a message that however empowered we might feel physically or mentally, we keep facing unfavorable situations in our journey to disempower us, only to transport us to our evolved understanding of power and being emp...

Book Review : Take Your Time & Hurry Up

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Book Name: Take Your Time & Hurry Up Author: Joey Kidney Publisher: Penguin eBury Press Genre: Non-Fiction  Format: Paperback Print length: 200 pages  Rating: 4/5 Take Your Time & Hurry Up by Joey Kidney is an emotional and motivational self-help book that deals with most of human problems be it love, loneliness, success, failure and so on. Book Blurb On Amazon Have you ever felt lost or alone in your thoughts, feelings and experiences? Take Your Time and Hurry Up continues Joey’s experiences as he leaves his early twenties and heads toward adulthood. This book appeals to anyone who is navigating ‘adulting’ without a compass or a map, and who is searching for a sense of belonging. Joey gently encourages his audience to find comfort, mindfulness, guidance and connection. A clear theme is woven through each passage: a reminder to slow down. After all, what’s the rush. Review Take Your Time & Hurry Up is a non-fiction book that targets youngsters and early adul...