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Whether you are a total workaholic or crave for day-offs, whether you go to an office or work from home, I’m sure you have days you just want to crash on your bed after getting through the most hectic day at work. On such days, it is important that you take the time to peacefully unwind and relax your mind, wash off the day’s remains and focus on being your productive best the next day. Unwinding after a long day has been proven to decrease the production of stress hormone in our bodies, boost mental health and enhance creativity. In case you are looking for ways to treat yourself when you get home, here is a step-by-step guide that might help. 1.       Don’t Rush – You might be in a hurry to just get in your PJs and snuggle in a comfy corner, but rushing will just take away your ability to get some calm. Instead, just sit down quietly for about 5 minutes and try to focus on being in the moment. Don’t think about work, deadlines or any other tasks for the ne...

You have heard a lot of people say that reading is highly beneficial for you. Of course it is! As English poet Joseph Addison said, “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” But finding the time and energy read books can be challenging, especially with our fast-paced lives, continually juggling tasks and rushing to meet deadlines. In case you want to read more, but feel like you just don’t have the time, here are 5 tips that might make you want to reconsider. 1.       The Power of Habit – Habits are extremely powerful tools, and when you want to inculcate something in your life forever, there is no better way than to make it a habit. You take a bath, have breakfast and sleep every day, almost involuntarily, because of habit. Similarly, if you associate your reading time, however limited, to any these of your existing habits, chances are that you’ll involuntarily reach for a book every time you perform these activities. So set your reading time ...

They say we are the choices that we make. Is it really so? Crouch’s Dark Matter will get you thinking that and a lot more. This mind-bending sci-fi thriller revolves around physics professor Jason Dessen, who while returning home one quiet Chicago winter night, gets kidnapped by a man in a geisha mask, who brings him to an abandoned power plant. Jason has no idea who this man is or what he wants from him. But he knows that he might never see his family ever again. The multiverse perspective is not a very unexplored concept. Many books have featured similar plots ( The Midnight Library being one of them), and yet for me Dark Matter stands out because of how the intense emotions and the nail-biting thrill blends in harmoniously in the writing. Sentences are short and crisp at places, though a little less of them would do no harm. It does get a little repetitive at places, making you wish to get to the ending fast (something true for most thrillers), but not so much to interfere with y...

If you love magical vibes, enchanted lands, witches, dragons, monsters and enjoy the setting and atmosphere more than the action and pace, then The Girl Who Drank The Moon is the book for you. The plot is this – Every year, the youngest member of the Protectorate is sacrificed to the Witch in the woods, leaving it’s family clouded with sorrow. But actually the witch Xan transports the babies to the Free Cities, on the other end of the Forest, and gives them to loving families who nurture them throughout their lives. On the way, Xan feeds the babies starlight (because starlight is magical, nourishing and a blessing). But on one such quest, she accidentally feeds a girl child moonlight. Moonlight is way more powerful than starlight, and has it’s consequences. Xan decides to bring up the child herself and names her Luna. I loved the book for the most part of it. The starting scene where the Elders march with the child to the Forest on the Day of Sacrifice, the introduction of Antain’s...