The Missing Piece

     The missing piece is a story about Keisha and Clive. Keisha is a PhD student who is researching giving beetroot juice for heart-broken patients. Once she got a new subject named Clive who was heartbroken because of something that doesn't happen really. Clive asks Keisha for knowing the truth as he feels something of the part he said felt real to him and he wants to know what really happened. To know whether Nancy existed or not.

    Keisha is a rare girl, who always checks her pulse there is some story behind it. Her friend Tess helps her to find a partner for Keisha using a dating app, giving her a 100 dating challenge so in the 100 dates she will find a one for her. Keisha felt as she needs to help Clive.

    George is one of the nurses in the ward of Clive who helped him and Keisha in finding the truth. There were a lot of kind peoples in this story - Tess, Keisha, Lucy, George who was helping without expecting anything and taking the risk to help a person.

    Clive was trying to find the truth about his lost love and Keisha was trying to find a love for her. Both had many things in common, one of the things was a scar. Keisha remembers of the scar often and Clive wants to know how the scar came as he doesn't know how it came. 

    The climax made me cry. Finally, Clive got a family, Keisha found a love. A Happy and emotional ending. I was living with those characters.

      Life is all about happiness and living the life we wish. Never it is too late!!!

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Being Oneself

    The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi is a really amazing book. This narrates the story of a boy who cannot live the way he wished.

The book begins with the market riots on the day Vivek died. Vivek was found dead in the veranda with bloodstains. His mother is trying to find what happened to her soon and who bought him there. The plot is set in Nigeria. Vivek's dad is a Nigerian and his mother is an Indian. There was a community called nigerwives who are from other countries married to a Nigerian and Vivek's mother was part of that community and Vivek's friends were their children.

Vivek and his cousin Osita were close friends which later become a  different relationship more than friendship. Vivek's parents and other people around thought he was sick. They really don't know what was going inside him neither he doesn't want to convey it to parents and make them feel bad. The only people who know his real identity was his friends and cousin who stayed with him and made him happy.

The way the plot was changing back and forth from past and present was really good. Vivek's mother Kavita was asking her friends are torching them to know what happened to him because they always stayed together. The way Vivek died made me feel so sad. I really felt bad but something that felt great was he had good friends. 

The world should accept one the way they are. Especially whether the society accepts or not the parents should understand what's happening to their children and make them feel better. they should not think about what society thinks. I feel the society should be more accepting and open-minded so this sort of things won't happen in real life.

If Vivek lived the way he like before everyone he may have survived. He doesn't want his parents to know the truth about him but finally, they came to know who the Vivek Nnmedi Oji was.

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The Multi- Hyphen Life: Multiple Careers

    The Multi-Hyphen Life by Emma Gannon gives me insight into how the multi hyphen life works how success differs from people to people.

 Nowadays people don't want to fix into one box they wish to have multiple careers. She says there is no single destination in life it is a series of dreams realized and breakthrough after breakthrough.

To have a multi-hyphen life we should analyse and find what we really enjoy. We should know about our self-worth. She says us, not o compare us with others as our circumstance and decision differs from others. We should have competition within oneself.

One should find their definition of success and about things that make them feel good.

Nowadays a new work environment is more flexible many are freelance workers with multiple careers. I really wish to be one of them. Having multiple careers is not wrong. We should understand how the working world is changing and new work designation is created.

 We should create our boundaries, online boundaries because now everything is flexible and we forget we are working for having a nice life with our family and replying emails and working at anytime, replying emails and messages from the clients and employers. so we should create our own boundary and should know how important is saying no.

We should work-life balance and should know how to blend work & life. Getting a good mentor is important and networking is something more important especially with appropriate peoples.

The working world is changing and we need to adapt to it.

The best thing I liked was this quote which was said in the last chapter by Emma, "Let's not to be afraid to be many different things".

I heard the audiobook and I feel so happy because many ask me a lot of questions as I am having somewhat multi hyphen lifestyle. I enjoyed it and I want to be consistent and persistent in what I do.

Each book I read is creating some impact in my life. I thank myself for reading this book. 

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Strategy

This book in which Michael Porter explains about strategy and how it is misunderstood and how to identify a strategy, how to improve sales, increase return on investment.

The book had a nice illustration which I liked a lot. It is a very small book and easy read written in a very simple format.

It really explains that winning is not everything and about zero-sum competition. The company should have the right mindset especially they should have tradeoffs what not to do, whom not to serve, which sort of customers to serve. He says how the people misunderstood strategy with marketing and the essence of strategy and how to use the capital efficiently.

To become a profitable business we don't need to crush the rivals, should be creating the own game having unique value for customers. 

I came to understand what the strategy really is and business should have a specific strategy. Whatever I read or learn gives me some new knowledge and ideas. I really feel so good. 

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Pride and Prejudice adapted by Gemma Barder

    Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen which is adapted by Gemma Barder was really a nice read with a lot of illustrations. I loved reading it. This is absolutely a part of Jane Austen Children's stories which is with very simple writing and in a readable format for children and beginners.

I have not read the original version of the Pride and Prejudice and wish to read it soon as it is in my kindle and will soon give a review on it too. This version made me to think of reading the original version too. 

This is too well written and I loved it. The story of Mrs. Bennet her 5 daughters. I really loved Lizzy(Elizabeth) who is the main character and second daughter of Mrs.Bennet. I feel everyone should have a friend like Mr. Darcy and a sister like Miss. Elizabeth Bennet.

I enjoyed the illustrations in this book and when I started reading I can't stop and completed in an hour or less.

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Absolute Read for Beginners

    I am a stock market retail investor for more than a year. I learned everything through many courses and videos available on the internet and some through my personal experience. I really want to know what is explained in this book so I started reading. The writing was simple and the author has described what are the necessary terms and concepts to be known before investing in a stock market. He not only spoke about the stock market, but he also said about mutual funds, bonds that were really good. There are different ways to diversify the saving, the stock market is not the only way. I too started knowing about bonds and other forms of investment after entering the stock market. The risk is based on the type of investment and amount of knowledge you have on it.

This is a 1-hour read and all necessary concepts for starting the investments are mentioned. It is difficult to earn and easy to spend so we should use what we get wisely. Saving first and keeping aside some amount for emergency and investing in different assets is a good idea. 

No one cares your money as much as you do !!!

The Beginning of Mahabharata

     The Fisher Queen's Dynasty by Kavita Kane is really a good read for mythology lovers. I loved the portrayal of Satyavati. A girl who was born as a princess and brought up as a fisher girl who became a queen of a large kingdom. Satyavati was also known as Kali and Matsyagandha and later Yojanagandha and also after becoming a queen for a few years she was known as Queen Daseyi and later Queen Satyavati.

She was the daughter of the king of Chedi Uparichar Vasu. She had a twin brother who was taken to the kingdom. The king abandoned her and she was brought by a man called Dasharaj who was the Chieftain of the fishermen's. 

Satyavati was so ambitious and different than others and had a hatred for her father who abandoned her. She became Yojanagandha after getting boon from Parahsar and was an immortal beauty and youthfulness. She gave birth to Veda Vyasa and gave him back to Parashar. She used her beauty and youth to get what she wants but she was not the one who made Devavrat take a terrible oath it was her father Dasharaj and this brought a pang of guilt which she had throughout her life.

I loved the friendship between Bhishm and Satyavati. This book is called Fisher Queen dynasty because the kuru dynasty ended with celibate Bhishm and his stepbrothers Chitragand and Virya. The niyog to Ambika and Ambalika was done by Vyasa who was her son who created a new lineage.

Satyavati had only aim of having heirs to safeguard the kingdom of Hastinapur which ended in the war between their own family.

The book is not a complete Mahabharata till Kurukshetra war. It ends with new lineage born - Dhritharashra, Pandu and Vidura. I loved reading the book. The above summary has described very few things there are a lot more!!

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