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Episode 22 – Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles
Ikigai by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles. What is Ikigai? Ikigai translates to a reason to live. Here’s the review of the book Ikigai. If you prefer to listen to the...
Episode 18 – China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
China Rich Girlfriend review comes from the script of the podcast by Living a Life Through Books. For more episodes by Living a Life through Books, click the link to her podcast. Hello everyone...
Road trip from St. Louis, MO to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
The best time to take this road trip is the end of September or the beginning of October for obvious reasons – Autumn. The main reason we went was two-fold: fall colors and the Agawa Canyon Tour...
Crescent City Books, A Bookshop in NOLA
I would have added this to my “road trip” post, but this one is a combination of my wandering spirit and living a life through books. So, I made a new post. The thing is this. Ever since I...
Renaissance Festival
This is my 3rd time at this festival, and it’s just a fun outdoorsy thing to do. I walked around today in my costume that I cannot name or describe. Well, it’s basically, a knee-length vest made out...
Board games, the next level.
My cousin in LA recently bought the game Ticket to Ride and then subsequently got introduced to Settlers of Catan. When he bought Ticket to Ride, I asked him why he hadn’t...
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Never give up!
I know people say this. I've read a lot of memes about how persistence pays. It's the plugging along and the plugging along and the plugging along and the one fine day, everything works...
Mid-life crisis and the mental block
As is the case when I've been gone for so long, I feel like I need to explain myself to you all. I feel I need to fill you all in on my life and my podcast. Yes, I do have a podcast now....
Christmas 2018 Special
Hello everyone. I’m Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed with Living a Life Through Books and Happy Holidays! Welcome to our last special and last episode of this year. This is our Christmas special. I want to say,...
Episode 9 – Take Me Away
Hello. This is Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed with Living a Life Through Books. Today is a dreamy journey. Or maybe not dreamy at all. It’s about those great moments in a book that make...
Episode 7 Part II – 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...
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...