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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...
Keep Up To Date
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Episode 6 – Can’t Sleep, Can’t Put It Down
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 with today’s episode, I want to...
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...