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Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: Upgrade by Blake Crouch

As our reviewer closed this book, this is what she understood of its message - ‘We need to stop humanity from destroying itself by upgrading our collective intelligence and reason. We will die out in the next century if nothing changes.’ Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18  | Bookstrapping: The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

Geoff Dyer’s category-defying piece of writing cannot sit in biography or self-help and yet has elements of both. Dyer focuses on the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who wrote their own rules when their beautiful youths were over, writes @OfficialReetaRG Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: ‘Wild Wisdom' by Christine Amour-Levar

‘Wild Wisdom: Life Lessons from Leading Teams to Some of the Most Inhospitable Places in the World’ leaves you disturbed about sustainability and warm about the possibilities if we all came together. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: The Man Who Bent Light by Narinder Singh Kapany

The fusion of ‘science as a universal need’ and ‘religion as a universal truth but private practice’ emerges beautifully from this book. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: Unsung Genius - A life of Jagadish Chandra Bose

The key message in 'Unsung Genius' by Kunal Ghosh revolves around Bose's enthusiasm about bringing the study of science to the masses and his passion for scientific education and public lectures, despite his failing health. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: Disrupting the Game by Nintendo America's former president and CEO, Reggie Fils Aime

The book is a "business memoir” in which the reader learns that Reggie Fils Aime ‘lived his life at the intersection of capability and opportunity.’ Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: Vanessa Hua’s Forbidden city

The conversations in Vanessa Hua’s book are antithetical and engaging. Immediately after the statement ‘women hold up half the sky’ comes the downer - ‘by lying down’. The character Mei Xiang’s harrowing journey raises questions about power, manipulation and the unacknowledged role of so many women. Bookstrapping Rating: 4 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: An unconventional playbook for success

Nishtha Tripathi's UnStartup talks about how Unacademy founders Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh and Roman Saini navigated all kinds of ambiguity. Bookstrapping Rating: 3 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: Humour, Unity and Feminism

Just like a child who says whatever comes to their mind without fear of judgement, ‘Tomb of Sand’ is utterly simple and joyous. Bookstrapping Rating: 4 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: Build - An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

In 'Build', Tony Fadell encourages entrepreneurs to know themselves better. He cites the case of Zhang Yiming, founder and CEO of TikTok, who resigned at the height of TikTok’s popularity. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: The Ambuja Story - How a Group of Ordinary Men Created an Extraordinary Company

A highly decorated biography, this book also features testimonials from India’s stalwarts. The man and the book have both cemented their presence. Bookstrapping rating: 3.5.

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara

King Rao escapes caste-based oppression in his hometown of Kothapalli and goes away, only to create a social system that reinforces existing social hierarchies. Bookstrapping rating: 3.5 stars.

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: ‘Selling’ isn't just for salespeople

In his book, David Hoffeld recommends that we must analyze ‘sales wins’ as much as losses. Bookstrapping rating : 3 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: ‘Song of Draupadi’ - bold, brave, beautiful

Ira Mukhoty’s Song of Draupadi embraces the idea of ‘letting go’ of life in a very non-dramatic way. ‘I am the earth, here before, forever’ is how the author frames Draupadi’s passing. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: ‘Rahul Bajaj - An Extraordinary Life’

The idea of connecting India’s independence and the involvement of Bajaj’s family in the country's fight for freedom, right at the beginning, sets a positive tone for the book, writes our reviewer in this week’s column. Bookstrapping Rating: 3.5 stars 

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: Life Force by Tony Robbins

‘Ageing is just another treatable disease,’ the authors say in the book. How receptive the reader will be to this idea is directly proportional to what they are going through in their personal lives. Bookstrapping rating: 3.5 stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: Five gems from ‘Indomitable’ by Arundhati Bhattacharya

In a world where women, by and large, don’t write their biographies for the fear of being judged, let's doff our hat to 'Indomitable'.

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: 'Searching for peace' by Ehud Olmert

Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert joins a long list of people who wrote books from prison. We review his memoir ‘Searching For Peace: A Memoir of Israel’. Bookstrapping Rating: Three stars

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: After a fight, families rarely discuss what it was all about

A review of Julia Samuel’s latest book ‘Every Family Has A Story: How We Inherit Love And Loss’

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: 'Principles for dealing with the changing world order' By Ray Dalio

This week in Bookstrapping, the pithiest book review in town, we pick up ‘Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail’ by Ray Dalio.

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: ‘2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything’

Mauro Guillén writes as though 2030 is just around the corner, not in the faraway future. He’s right.

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: ‘Cry Havoc’ by Simon Mann: Is there such a thing as a point of no return?

There’s a line by Simon Mann, a British mercenary and ex-military, in 'Cry Havoc' that applies to pretty much all kinds of mess: “So what the bloody hell did go wrong? I'll never know for sure, I know that.”

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: “The Code Breaker” Walter Isaacson

There’s a certain reader-phobia that scientific biographies can be cumbersome. This one isn’t, writes our critic. This week on Bookstrapping, we have a book about friendly neighbourhood scientists.

Storyboard18 | Bookstrapping: ‘Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds’, by Huma Abedin

This week in Bookstrapping - the pithiest book review in town, our critic picks up Huma Abedin’s book which was written as a memoir for her son; so that he knows her side of the story.