The generational algorithm

Some books ask you to reflect on your life. The Generational Algorithm asks you to reflect on the patterns behind it.

Francisco Castillo explores the invisible codes that shape families, decisions, behaviors, and even ambition across generations. The idea that we inherit more than eye color and last names isn’t new  but this book approaches it with clarity, structure, and a thought-provoking lens that feels both analytical and deeply human.

What stands out is how the book connects personal identity with broader generational influence. It examines how beliefs, fears, values, and even limitations can be quietly passed down, often without conscious awareness. Castillo frames this as an “algorithm”  a set of recurring patterns that influence how we think, choose, and respond to the world.

Rather than placing blame on previous generations, the book encourages awareness. And awareness becomes power. Once you recognize inherited patterns, you gain the ability to either continue them intentionally or break cycles that no longer serve you.

The writing balances insight with accessibility. Complex ideas about social conditioning, legacy thinking, and generational shifts are presented in a way that feels practical rather than overwhelming.  It’s reflective without being abstract, structured without being rigid.

This book will resonate strongly with readers interested in personal growth, leadership, social dynamics, or family systems. It challenges you to look beyond individual success and consider the broader narrative you are part of and the one you are shaping for the future.

The Generational Algorithm ultimately feels like a call to conscious living. It reminds us that while we inherit patterns, we also have the power to rewrite them.

Just Aspire

Just Aspire by Ajai Chowdhry is a biography. The author narrates his story from his childhood, how he became part of the founding members of HCL and how the entrepreneur journey sculpted him into the person he is now his ideas, and his thinking. I loved how he narrated his experience and gave insights and explanations about his likings, which are similar to my interest in books, futurology techs and space, which connected me to the story and author. The author explained how he had a work-life balance, how he had spent time with family and explained about the family members and bonds. I loved he was a responsible person and contributed to being a part of an NGO and starting one to help people in need. He had the passion and commitment to make changes in the industry he worked and in people’s life. I loved the way he explained about IITs and how I made some changes that had a great impact. Whatever the work is do it with full commitment and passion, and the results will come along as expected.

The writing connects with readers. A well-narrated journey of knowledge sharing from an experienced personality is an inspiration for the current generation. I would recommend this book to people who are interested in reading a biography and knowing about entrepreneurship and its experiences which can help them in their entrepreneurial journey.

Home Detox

 

The book gives you a lot of information about how our homes are full of toxins that are causing health issues. Every room in our house is filled with toxic items from the bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom to our garden. The author also explains how the plastics and other things we use are affecting the whole family and our neighbours. The author gives recipes to prepare liquid soap, glass spray, dishwasher detergent, laundry detergent, bug spray and other essential items made of natural items available at home which are not toxic. Even the clothes we wear, and the current furniture made of wood we buy have some hazardous chemicals. We should create a good environment to live in and survive for the next generation. 

We can reduce, reuse and produce less waste, small changes each day and really bringing a positive impact in our lives.  The author explains on varied topics how electronics produce chemicals when they heat up and about EMF and how it affects kids more, the kitchen which we use like Teflon coated non-stick pans which are harmful to us. 

We are ingesting, inhaling and absorbing a lot of hazardous chemicals from our homes than from outside. I found this book useful for me to know and help myself and my reader and nonreader friends to bring some changes to our home that can positively impact our surroundings. If you want to bring some changes into your lives and create a toxin-free zone the book is the right choice for you.

Just Saying

Just Saying by Sophie Ranald is a romantic read with a lot of stories entwined with a lot of characters. The protagonist of the story is Alice who was a trainee in a Law firm and was in a relationship with another trainee in the same firm. Thinkings start turning down when the head of her department Gordon was removed and Alice should either move to another department or leave and find a job somewhere else but she changes her mind to join a pub as a part-time worker and things start changing as Joe brings his ex-girlfriend to another room so they can share rent as the income from Alice is less. Zoe tries to lure and get back Joe and  Alice is hardworking to get crowdfunding for the pub she is working to not get sold out there is another story of Maurice and Wesly who kept a secret thinking it a shameful thing for forty years and which may cause detention to Wesly from London. 

The story mainly revolves around these people and how think to get carried down and what happens at the end. I loved reading it and enjoyed the writing style of the author how the story was divided into each chapter and the way the past events of Alice are narrated like her memory than saying it to someone else and the way each character was developed. I liked Heather who was her best friend to whom she confides everything. 

The book is for people who love romance with some humour and satire.

 

The Zen Mama Guide to Finding Your Rhythm in Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond by Teresa Palmer; Sarah Wright Olsen

This is an excellent read for people who are planning to have kids. The book covers a lot of topics like pregnancy planning, pregnancy loss and each trimester and post-pregnancy and postpartum depression. Each stage is explained in detail and what they experienced and other moms and moms to be experienced were there. I really loved the way they explained pregnancy loss they used this word instead of miscarriage and how the loss is different for everyone and how it affects and what needs to be done to have a good relationship with yourself and your partner than detaching from everyone around. As mentioned in the title it talks about the birth and beyond and I wish you read to understand what would be good for you as Sara and Teresa have shared a lot of stuff that is helpful for people across the world who wish to have little ones in their life and to feel the parenthood.

I really there are different ways and positions to give birth as I have watched only one position in movies and in a hospital and I got to know more about it we should find the right doctor or midwife who matches our mindset and we should be able to feel secure talking to them. Changing doctors to get the right and comfortable one is not bad.

The writing style was so simple and lucid and I liked how they were expressing themselves openly so that it help others there are a few pictures of them with their kids which is so lovely.

 

Healthy Kids Happy Moms

 

I loved this book as it gave a lot of insights into how we can change one's condition or improve from illness by having nutritional food that is right for the person. I learned more about dairy and food that cause inflammation and allergic foods that affect the gut. We can improve our health and our kids by looking at what we eat in a day and how it affects us or causes any health issue like indigestion, infection etc.,

We all know doctors give medicine for the symptoms and may forget to find the leading underlying cause behind it, the nutrition requirement, environment, and stress which are causing inflammation. Making small healthy changes one by one can be more effective in that we can lessen the visits to our doctor.

Kudos to author Sheila for bringing out her experience as a paediatrician and naturopathic doctor. The way she observed each of her patients and her thought process to bring some changes into their lives and enlighten the mothers with her knowledge is great and thanks for the insights.

The book is the right for moms and moms to be to understand how they should hear their gut feeling when it comes to their children. The diet mentioned in the plan and the recipes are very helpful.

Scarred Roses, RakShak Series Book I

Some place leave their mark on people.

Some people leave their mark on places.

Bring them together and they become stories.

Stories that define everyone and everything in their path.

The Scarred Roses is a mystery thriller and the first book of the RakShak series and I loved the story of Paswan Gulab Rai. Raksha and Shakti are two sisters on an adventurous journey after reading their mother's journal after her death, which she left in a bank locker in Jodhpur. There are a lot of characters in the story Raimas, Suma, Meera, Vani, Ajay, GK, Kabir and a lot more. 

The character's characterization and background were perfectly built and the narrative was so good. You love the way each mystery is revealed and the way they find out. There are a lot of twists and turns in the story till the end and after reading the epilogue am waiting for part 2.

The way the author wrote a story connecting with history and some fiction was so good I loved Paswanji from the beginning of the story really felt bad how the haters can ruin one's name after they left the world since the one has done a lot of schemes to improve the living of the normal people. Overall you will love the story. The way they remember the treasure hunt played as a family and how a knot describes the meaning and how to find the clues from the cryptic poems and content from their mother's journal.

25 Letter of Compassion

25 letters of compassion has been letters on varied topics which are so expressive makes the reader think and feel for the happening in their life and surrounding.  How we should treat fellow human beings and how the society is and how to be good human being with compassion, love and empathy. Some of the contents in the book which I loved was To parents of students passing out of school, The Virginity worshippers, To humans on literacy. All were so good and we can feel the emotions of author in each letters of compassion.

The writing was so simple and lucid and if you want to read a short lite read with some good content that are so meaningful and make us think.

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A Battle for New India: a story to transform Indian Politics is a fiction with protagonist Sri who is a musician turned politician. The life of Sri from childhood is narrated as a background story after the horrible attack on him as he was starting a campaign and contest as an independent candidate with the support of the people.

We may all or few believe politics is dirty and we berate politicians and politics. If we want to make it clean and white politics, we need people like Sri who want change. A rich lad with all amenities in his life who became a politician never know the suffering of common people and what is to be done for them. There is a need for common people to enter politics who understands the need of a common man and make plans and schemes based on their needs. 

This is a short read with a lot of emotions filled to bring some change into Indian Politics. The writer does it wonderfully through his narration and I loved it.

 

The Forgotten Palace and the Betrayed Prince

The Forgotten Palace and the betrayed Prince is a nice fictional read with the concept of time travel to the past. The protagonist of the story is Priya who lost her grandma at the age of 18 and now doing post-graduation in an MBA at a B School. Priya is a normal girl she believed her time travel to be a dream but soon found it to be a power she has which her grandmother thought to say on her 18th birthday.

The love-after-hatred story of Arnav and Priya was good. I loved her friends who made me remember my college days. The way she wanted to prove about Satya was good and she was trying to change the past by going to Shesh mahal each time in the past. She was staying with her husband in Shesha mahal for business-related work where she was going in the past. Her friend Anjali a renewed Psychiatrist thought it was her dream state that she is describing. 

Overall the story was good. I loved the way the story is narrated and the culture, and dress of the era she travels and the present described. I really felt bad for Arnav and Priya's families. Priya should have taken the right decision. If you love fiction with time travel you can go for it.

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The 5 week leadership challenge

The Five-Week Leadership Challenge is a great book written with all needed things to be known to be a good leader. Each chapter deals with each sort of things to be learned and practiced in your life daily to be a right leader for your fellow members. There are chapters where he talk about how the communication is important, hear your team opinion before making any decision rather than thinking they will accept. Owning your mistakes, having the right relationship with client, employees, how to manage time and how to present an information in right way.

There are a lot of things to be learned from this book. He is a good story teller who was explained each topic with some stories related to it which was from his personal experience. In each chapter end we can write answers for the questions and problems we faced in life. It felt like a conversation with the author who was narrating and explaining to us to be a right and good leader.

I loved the way it is written and I will reread this whenever it is needed. I found it a helpful one.

 

Trusted: Preparing Your Kids for a Lifetime of God-Honoring Money Management

The book Trusted by Matt Bell is about money management with some spirituality and how Christianity as mentioned about money management and verses related to it,

The author has mentioned how he overspent and used money before getting the insight to go in the right direction and describes how he started teaching money management. This book is not only to help us with teaching kids about finance, saving, and investing, but we can also learn and practice from it. The way the author says how he implemented this with children was so nice to hear. 

It was really helpful to read for me and made me remember my childhood and teenage and how our parents thought us budgeting and made me know the household expenses they had given allowances to and said us to save and use them wisely. 

The writing style was so simple and each chapter discusses well about financial skills that are necessary and that can improve the behavior and mold the child well and make the right choices at the right time which can be helpful in life later and not fall into the cycle of spending more and having less.

 

Have you ever thought of living without any regrets?

 

The book is a good lovely read which gives you lot of positivity.  No regrets living helps you to live a peaceful life with very limited amount of regrets. Whether you believe in science or god, there should be some belief system that can help you to stay non egoistic and not to envy. 

I loved the way each chapter explains about different parts of life and how we should lead a life to stay optimistic even during tough times. I felt the book to be very useful and the language and way of writing was so lucid. The author has written things based on his personal experience and stories of his life and people around him. I am one, who believe in miracles and when came to read the stories of survival and right thing happening at the right time which saved the life, I felt they are blessed and the gratitude and prayers for others in needs was something I started agin after reading this book. I really thank author for sharing his stories and experience as a book which can benefit many.

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Carved in Ebony

 

Carved in Ebony is a well researched book with ten woman who are inspiration to the Colored People who were enslaved for hundreds of years and how each women were significantly making some change in the lives of Black People. I came to know more about the struggles and how each they tried to get the freedom.

In each story we can see they had the belief in divine and it is explained a lot in the book and they were stubborn in helping others. There are some who joined missionaries and traveled across the world and give education and love to the people around. I loved that each woman mentioned in the story tried to uplift others. 

There were a lot of discrimination and struggles they faced during those era which we cannot think of.  I came to know about special schools, colleges and churches for the Black People which was built by rich coloured people for their people as they know how many white people treated them.

There a lot of people in history who were not educated but had the knowledge and will power to make changes in the society and to empower others  and  it made me think what am doing to make some change in the society, where there are bias and discrimination  still exists.

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How to write a book in 8 days by Priya Kumar

How to write a book in 8 days gives you ideas to write a book and become an author. The ideas are to be worked out and there should be some hardworking and smart work to done before writing a book. Nothing is an easy task or tough one unless we try.

I loved the way the author narrated her experience and ideas to write a book, especially the holidays she take and how we need rest and peacefulness to write a book. I remember my childhood experience and my wishes when read about hers. We all have a dream that have stop thinking because of what others say. We shouldn't give up.  This book will give you inspiration to do what you love and start your new journey even when you have a daily job.

I loved her writing and way she can speak with the readers through her books and express the thoughts that can create some impact in them.

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Awakening the Rainmaker: A Guide to Gender Equality by Nishtha Anand

 

Awakening the Rainmaker A guide to gender equality has spoken more about how the gender equality starts from home. The women leaders who have been interviewed had some common grounds like parents who treated their kids equally. The career they chose where they are not judged by gender. This is still a thing to follow in many families and firms. 

When you have a supporting family and supportive professional system you can reach where you want. Sky is the limit.

We women have to do extra hardwork and effort to prove we are no less.

One of interviews where the guy wanted his daughter to be in well reputed firm in a well settled job and he don't want to give job to women who attended interviews and saying they are only for reception later understood when the same question was raised by the official about his daughter. Everyone possesses varied  capabilities. If there is shared responsibility, and respect to the individuals based on their abilities and not discriminate based on gender will pave way for better society.

I wish the current generation parents will have a non-gendered approach of parenting.

I have seen all ads related to #sharetheload #weareequal They all were so good and understanding. I wish everyone should read this book.

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The Girl in the Glass Case

The Girl in the Glass Case is a book with a lot of twists and turns and I wish I don’t give any spoilers. There are two serial killers in the story. The one wanted fame whereas the other wanted a seven day redemption before she reunited with her mother in heaven.

I really felt some sympathy and pity for the serial killers. They had some childhood traumas which made them do such things. All are born innocent but their circumstances and people around them are affecting positively and negatively in their life which mold them into the person they are today.

I loved all the characters  Simone, Zoya, Irshad, Pius, Nalini, Karan, Ranveer.

I really hated Anushka for mocking Karan for the condition he has and cheating him when she understood and married him.

Irshad is superintendent of Police who is trying to find the serial killer Clipper who he cannot fid since 9 years, Whereas a new serial killer Doll Maker killing the kids and showcasing them in a glass class like a beautiful doll.

I laughed at how Irshad thought of error 404 and Pius was thinking and doing it in an undercover operation.

Simone and Zoya are ASP, DSP who are handling the Doll Maker case and I loved the ladies incharge who were in contrast and worked together and got the culprit behind.

I wished the ending could have been extended to a few pages where Irshad knows about what happened inside the bunker and crypt.

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Valmiki's Women

 

Valmiki’s women are five tales of ramayana. The retelling of the story from the perspective of other characters was so good and I loved it. I really didn't know about the existence of Shanta in Ramayana till I read this. She is the eldest child of King Dasharatha.

I heard the story of how Kaikeyi became the foster daughter of Manthara. The way the Mantara was portrayed really makes you love the negative character of Ramayana. She did nothing like they blamed to suffer a lot. It was Kaikeyi’s decision, Mantara loved Bharata like his grandson but no one cared about her. Just read this chapter which has some reality mentioned. The words of the rich are believed.

The story of Tataka from the eyes of Maricha and his vengeance was really nothing wrong. The winners are always portrayed as good ones and the losers as the villains of the story with exaggeration whether it is a mythology, history or a movie. If the hero does a wrong thing and justify it, it becomes right. If the same is done by the other person he hates, he is presented in a negative way as villains.

I really felt bad for what happened to Tataka and family. They were not intruders or Rakshasa. They Rishis are the outsiders who come into the forest and do a lot of Yajnas and give animal sacrifices. Saving an animal made her rakshasi. The way Tataka talks really makes you think.

Bhairava’s words are so true..

The story of Meenakshi, the sister of Surpanakha and her talk with Sita and her suffering for loving a man really made me feel. Sita was banished from the kingdom of Rama. If you read you start loving many characters you hated and hate the ones you liked.

I really liked the story from the other side and enjoyed it. 

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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is such a powerful read which says the problem in this patriarchal society she has faced as a child and in different stages of her life because of the stereotypes.

Her father and grandma wished to have a son for him. Kim has an elder sister and younger brother. The male in the home are treated in a different way. The special care and the treatment. 

I like Kim’s mom where it portrayed what she dreamed and what was reality and how she made up her mind to teach her kids well and how she placed a world map in their room.

The trekking club where she was had no women as head till the time she was in it and they were treated well but said they are soft, gentle people so they are caring more.

There are a lot of restrictions in their school and the question asked in the interview literally made me angry. Getting a job in those periods was so tough that women may not stay long in a firm as they will marry and move or their other personal responsibilities may make them quit.

The promotion was given to the man in her firm who also joined in the same period when she was more eligible for the promotion and client meeting where she was not treated well.

Her marriage life where she can’t make a decision when to have a kid and her decision to quit job to take care of the kid and some men’s comments when she was drinking same coffee as them all this made me angry and feel pity for the event in her life which made her seek medical help and treat herself.

I think everyone should read this book. I believe we are in a far better place where we can live the way we want and decide and the organizations that look at talent than gender.

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The Ramgarh Literary Festival

The Ramgarh Literary festival is a perfect satire on the bookish industry. 

This was the book selected as February read by my book Club members. It had humor and some parts which make you think - do these things really happen?

During the beginning few chapters I was awestruck by the events and the way things were going. Literally I was thinking what’s going on. The cycle of authors referring books to write on the same topic again and how poets were narrated in the story made me laugh. There are a lot of things that make you laugh and make you think.

I got to have discussions with the author and came to know about the real life events that happened and made him write this book.

Reading the blurb alone will make you read till the end to know what happens. The ending chapter made me think a lot.

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