I’m not you!
Hello, this is Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed with Living a Life through book and today let’s talk about characters. Someone asked me if I found myself in a character in a book? Anyone, I identified with. Well, to be honest, I don’t think so. Sometimes I think I’m too crazy to be in a book, but that’s […]
I’m different for a bit
Hello everyone and welcome again to Living a Life Through Books. This is Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed musing about my journey of reading. In this episode, I would like to dovetail into the last episode of books that changed your life. So, I think in terms of the more recent books I’ve read. I’ll get the […]
Road Trip from St. Louis to New Orleans, LA
I did say road trip. Let’s start off with approximate time. 10 hours. Give or take. The convenience of this particular trip is that we are mostly on one highway – 55 South. Other than our necessary stops for food, gas, rest room, stretching legs or change of drivers, it’s pretty much a straight shot […]
Royal Caribbean – Adventure of the Seas
This would be my 3rd time on a Royal Caribbean ship. I wish I would have written down my thoughts on the other ships I had been on. I guess, it’s never too late to start. For some strange reason, I felt from experience of past cruises that I should have boarded the ship earlier. […]
Episode 7, part I – I’m different now
Hello again. This is Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed with living a life through books. This is a two part episode. Here’s a bit of background. When I started thinking seriously about this podcast and began developing the framework and content for the episodes, it was in June of this year. At that time, I was asking […]
Thanksgiving 2018 Special
Hello everyone. I’m Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed and Welcome to our special Thanksgiving episode of Living a life through Books. I assume you all survived my Halloween special and today’s episode is obviously very different. It’s more about gratitude. It’s about things that happen on an everyday basis that we don’t notice but can change your […]
Halloween episode
Welcome to Halloween and my first seasonal episode. Here’s a bit of micro history. I have had, since the beginning of September, enough episodes for publishing every other week all the way up to the end of this year. Yes, 2018 is in the bag. I considered doing more episodes and maybe even putting out an […]
Can’t Sleep, Can’t Put it Down
“A book you could not put down” That is the topic for this transcript from the podcast by Living a Life through Books. Here’s the link for the podcast. Hello again and as always, welcome back. This is Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed, your friendly neighborhood book reader for living a life through books. Before I start […]
Episode 5 – The Re-read
Hello everyone. Last time we spoke about half finished books. This time, let’s go the other direction. What about a book you’ve finished and love so much, you want to read it again? That has happened to me. I’ve read “The Monk who sold his Ferrari” 3 times. First time, I read it. Second time, I highlighted […]
Episode 4 – Unfinished
And it’s me again. Today let’s talk about finishing books. In my experiment, I only counted the books I had finished. An unfinished book, was an unfinished book. I did not think it would be fair to say that I had read a book, although I read it half way and did not like it. So, what […]