Oh, The Places You’ll Go! | Dr SeussA childhood favourite, DrSeuss’s heavily-illustratedbook opens on a cheery note‘Congratulations! Today isyour day’... that sets thestage for a story about finding successin all its forms. Read it before takingany major life-altering decision.

Stumbling on Happiness | Daniel Gilbert Using complex theories frompsychology, neuroscienceand philosophy, the author(a professor of psychologyat Harvard university) helpsyou understand how yourbrain, and your imaginationwork. A must read for future scientists.

THE HAPPINESS PROJECT | GRETCHEN RUBIN Humankind has been obsessed with the idea ofhappiness for thousands of years. In fact, Aristotlecalled achieving happiness, the sense and purposeof life itself. But how does one ‘get happy’?

Armed with this question, Gretchen Rubinspent a year test-driving

principles, tips, theories, and sci-entific studies on happiness. Shedocumented this quest in a blog,which subsequently became thebook ‘The Happiness Project’.Her findings? Happiness is pres-

ent in all aspects of life (ifyou know where tofocus); making resolu-tions and workingtowards themsteadily (in smallsteps) helps foster asense of well being;

and working onyourself con-

stantly, pre-vents nega-tive experi-ences.

03Books! Books! Books! There is no end to knowledge. All you need to do is flipthrough the pages to get that extra dose of infotainment. So simply read on...

■ WHERE TIGERS RULE, ANIMALPLANET, 3.00 PM: Hunters combinecenturies-old techniques and state-of-the-art tools to hunt for a man-

1888: Theophilus Van Kannel received a patentfor the revolving door.

1905: Indian National Congress declared boycottof British goods.

1933: The Iraqi Government slaugh-tered over 3,000 Assyrians in the vil-lage of Sumail. The day becameknown as Assyrian Martyrs Day.

1934: The US Court of Appealsupheld a lower court ruling strikingdown the government's attempt to banthe controversial James Joyce novel"Ulysses."

1941: Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore passedaway.

1942: U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal, markingthe start of the first major allied offensive in

the Pacific during World War II.

1961: Cosmonaut Gherman Titov cir-cled Earth for a full day in Vostok 2.

2007: "Eclipse" third book inStephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga"

was published.

2018: China banned release of Winnie thePooh movie "Christopher Robin", after characterused to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping.

eating tigress that has killed andeaten ten people in Northern In-dia.

■ SCIENCE ICONS, DISCOVERY SCI-ENCE, 5.00 PM: The stability of anyglobal power depends on high-speed digital communication andthe dependence on global inter-activity may be placing humansin grave danger.

■ INDIA'S WILDEST, NAT GEO WILD,7.00 PM: From giant grazers toAsian elephants, India is home tonumerous unique and exoticspecies of animals.

■ THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKINGDAWN - PART 2, &FLIX, 4.25 PM: Bel-la is now a vampire and lives hap-pily with Edward and her daugh-ter, Renesmee. When someone mis-informs the Volturi that Renesmeewas turned, the latter set out to killthe child and the culprit.

■ TITANIC, STAR MOVIES, 4.45 PM:Seventeen-year-old Rose hails froman aristocratic family and is set tobe married. When she boards the

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Titanic, she meets Jack Dawson,an artist, and falls in love with him.

■ WONDER WOMAN, HBO, 8.00 PM:Princess Diana of an all-femaleAmazonian race rescues US pilotSteve. Upon learning of a war, sheventures into the world of men tostop Ares, the god of war, from de-stroying mankind.

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HemingwayDays Festival

The Hemingway Look-Alike Contest washeld in Key West, Florida in July. Thecompetition was part of the activities

during the yearly Hemingway Days Festivalthat honours author Ernest Hemingway,who lived in Key West during the 1930s. AP

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s‘Love in the time of Cholera’is magical in its simplicity.An exquisite piece of litera-ture, this book is a mustread for all. SANGHAMITHRA,class XII, Toc H Public School,Vyttila, Ernakulam

I enjoyed reading Sarah JMaas’s ‘A Court of Thornsand Roses’ – a trilogy thatwill fire your imagination likeno other. CHAITRA ABHIJEETVARTAK, class IX, SSPM’s Sri SriRavishankar Vidya Mandir,Borivali East

Rhonda Byrne’s ‘The Secret’taught me that one can applythe law of attraction (as spo-ken about in the book) to‘find’ happiness in everything. GURALAM S DHILLON, class XII,St John’s High School,Chandigarh

In Dan Gemeinhart’s ‘TheHonest Truth’, a boy decidesto climb a mountain despitesuffering from cancer. It is anincredible story of the powerof the human spirit. HARSHITAGUPTA, class X, Mahadevi BirlaWorld Academy, Kolkata

The late scientist StephenHawking’s ‘Brief Answers toBig Questions’ is one of themost interesting, and percep-tion-altering books that onewill ever read. BHOOMIKA N H, class X, StClaret School, Bengaluru

THE ART OF HAPPINESS | HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMAThis book, on the philosophy of peace and com-passion, is for those who agree that the purposeof life is to seek happiness, but don’t know howto do so. According to His Holiness Dalai Lama,external circumstances cannot create lasting happiness –the right state of mind can. In fact, one of his most memorablequotes says “If you want others to be happy, practise compas-sion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion.” In thebook, the spiritual leader advises that practising compassion;building long lasting relationships; and being spiritual can offereveryone an opportunity to lead a happier life.

THE GIFTS OF IMPERFECTION | BRENE BROWN Brene Brown is one of the most importantsociologists in the world. Her research on vul-nerability, shame and empathy has shone anew light on what shapes our self worth.

Brown’s most recent book, ‘TheGifts of Imperfection: LetGo of Who You ThinkYou’re Supposed to Beand Embrace Who YouAre’, offers 10 principles

that you can follow to livea fulfilling life, defined by courage,

connection and compassion towards oth-ers. Brown believes that leading ahappy, fulfilling life is not an impossibletask, and offers insights on how to be

an emotionally healthy person. NITYA.SHUKLA@TIMESGROUP.COM

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F or some people, life begins whenyou turn 18. Whether you choose toleave the nest or you are kicked out,

it is a time when you are expected to ex-perience the world. In ‘Reasons to Be

Cheerful’, author Nina Stibbe of-fers an intimate look at

this uncertain timeas the protago-

nist transforms into a young adult.In this story, Lizzie Vogel ignores

the part of an advertisement that asksfor a ‘mature lady’ and applies for a jobto work in a local dentist’s office. Shedoesn’t mention the fact that she isn’tqualified for dentistry. Her boss is gruffand firm, and her only other co-work-er, Tammy, is a hyper person. Lizzie

enjoys this odd work group and alsomanages to learn a few dentistry skills.

When she is not assisting in thesurgery room, or answering phones,Lizzie watches for Andy Nicolello.Andy is peculiar, but Lizzie does notmind. She develops a friendship withhim and as the months pass, she fallshead over heels for him. Along withnavigating through teen romance,Lizzie learns to manoeuvre othermilestones that are part of becomingan adult. She learns to drive, hostsher first dinner party and takes herfirst step into maturity when chal-lenges arise.

Stibbe proves she can channel themind of a young woman and takes thereader on a coming-of-age journey thatplucks at the heartstrings of everyemotion. AP

Ruskin Bond, the Padma Bhushan award winningauthor, shares his best tips on writing

T hose who want to make a liv-ing out of writing need towrite regularly and be mind-

ful of time limits. This is popularauthor Ruskin Bond’s advice to bud-ding authors. The message from themaster storyteller came during aninteraction with young students dur-ing the launch of his latest book‘Words From My Window - A Journal’.

Here is what he advises: Before you start writing a book,

first write it in your head.Visualise the plot and the char-

acters, before you put it intowords.

If you lose interest in somethingthat you are writing, put it asideand do something else or writesomething else. After some timecome back to it with a freshmind.

You need to consistently pro-duce work of a certain quality. Ifyou want to make a living out ofwriting, you need to write regu-larly and be mindful of time lim-its. It is important to be disci-plined. BASED ON PTI INPUTS

“Write regularly, be disciplined”

This bittersweet British satire takes readers on a coming-of-age journey

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Nina Stibbe’s ‘Reasons To Be

Cheerful’ clinched the 2019

Wodehouse Prize for Comic

Fiction. The Leicester-born

Stibbe had made this short-

list twice before.

HOW LIZZIE GREW UP

1. Lemony Snicket’s ‘Horseradish’

2. Douglas Adams’ ‘The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul’

3. Bill Bryson’s ‘The LostContinent:Travels in Small-TownAmerica’

4. Seth Grahame-Smith and JaneAusten’s, ‘Pride And Prejudice AndZombies’

5. Colin Meloy’s ‘Wildwood’ANSWERS

Which book has this quote? 1. “Everyone should be able to do onecard trick, tell two jokes, and recitethree poems, in case they are evertrapped in an elevator.”2. “It can hardly be a coincidence thatno language on earth has ever producedthe expression ‘As pretty as an airport.’”3. “I come from Des Moines. Somebodyhad to.”4. “It is a truth universally acknowl-edged that a zombie in possession ofbrains must be in want of more brains.”5. “How five crows managed to lift atwenty-pound baby boy into the air wasbeyond Prue, but that was certainly theleast of her worries.”

SNOWDEN’S FIRSTEVER MEMOIR TO BEPUBLISHED INSEPTEMBER: EdwardSnowden’s memoir‘Permanent Record’will be publishedglobally on

September 17. In 2013, the former CIAagent and NSA contractor shocked theworld when he broke away from theAmerican intelligence establishment andrevealed the extent of information,including phone calls, text messages and emails, the US government wassecretly gathering.

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SAHITYA AKADEMIINVITES ENTRIESFOR 2020 YUVAPURASKAR: SahityaAkademi, the nation-al academy of let-ters, has openedentries for YuvaPuraskar 2020 for

publishers and young Indian authors inall 24 languages it recognises. TheAkademi is inviting books from appli-cants aged below 35 on January 1, 2020.The last date to apply is August 30,2019. The Yuva Puraskar was introducedin 2011 to encourage young people writ-ing in Indian languages. The award com-prises an amount of Rs 50,000, a plaqueand a citation. IANS

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There is no one path to happiness. But if you, like us, have been wondering how you could foster a sense of well being within yourself,try any of these illuminating reads. Use the paths suggested to chart

your own journey to your unique happy space