Pens and Places

  If I could share my part of the brain and let you roll around the neurons to find my best-loved genre, it would certainly be “Matt Haig”. Yes, my favorite genre, which I can pick even in my dreams to relive the whole narration again and again, is now ‘Matt Haig’. He is a genius of delivering words in the correct proportion of love and science to the world. “The Humans” is the third book of his I read, and yes-yes-yes, I loved it.  This book is just a shooting star in the infinite prime numbers of the cosmos, existing right here and  thousands of light years  away. Matt has articulated the Earthly-AI(Artificial Intelligence) into Universal-AI(Alien Intelligence), just to understand humans - the basic intelligent form of life on the blue planet. Right from the introduction of the story, where an outsider learns to understand the umpteen forms of greeting humans can have, to the end of the story where pain and sufferings are essential-magical gifts - every thing is ju...

  There’s a constant fight between the perception of what we know and what we should know more, that we often ignore the fact of reading self-help books. People often get bored or don’t connect for long run with self-help genres. They either pick it up when they feel there’s a need to change something for good in their lives or they want to get motivated. But it is a very important journey of learning and implementing throughout, as we all know “Life is a journey, not a destination” . Before writing this review, I was skeptical of what I should write about a book which people already know(even though they don't  follow). Then I got an intellectual suggestion from my partner that “you should write what YOU like about this book, how this book is different from other self-help books, why should anyone pick this masterpiece over billions of other books?”. And this, this small piece of information was although basic one but made me think of the fact that why I picked it in the firs...