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Hello there. I am Amitesh. Welcome to BookJelly – my home on the Internet.
I have spent more than half my life reading not to escape the world, but to understand it. Books have shaped my thinking, my travels, my work, the way I look at people and the way I look at myself. BookJelly is where I gather those experiences, reflections, and discoveries and share them with readers who live a similar reading life.
If you are here, I believe something about books has moved you too. Perhaps a sentence once stayed with you longer than it should. Perhaps a book changed how you saw someone you love. Or perhaps reading has become the quiet anchor of your inner life. If so, we already understand each other.
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A Life Built Around Reading
Books have travelled with me through cities, seasons, turning points, and quiet evenings. They have unsettled me, comforted me, challenged me, and expanded the inner rooms of my mind. BookJelly is not a catalogue of reviews. It is a record of a life lived with books, the thoughts they trigger, the places they lead to and the conversations they open.
I do not believe in passive reading. I read to think. To question. To see the world with clearer eyes. My writing here is personal, honest and sometimes blunt, because reading deserves sincerity, not politeness.
My Reading Arc
I write about books the way one writes about encounters. Some stay close, some fade, a few alter the course of your thinking. At my reading desk, I explore what a book is really trying to say, how it speaks to its time and what it leaves behind in us.
These are reflections, not summaries. They are meant to be read slowly, with curiosity.
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Literary Festivals
Festivals fascinate me because they show what reading looks like when it steps into the public square. They bring writers, ideas, doubts and debates into the same air.
If you want more than panel snapshots and PR quotes, you will find the real texture of festivals here: the learning, the serendipity, the discomfort and the joy of being among people who care about the written word.
I started this blog in late 2017 to share crucial ideas from the books I read with a larger audience.
Over the last three-and-a-half years, BookJelly has become more than just a blog. The site now hosts all my writings related to categories such as Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Marketing, Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and many more.
I write both long-form and short-form content for my readers. You can sit down with a cup of coffee and peruse the long book review of Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning.
If you are in a hurry and want to grab only the big takeaways from Frankl’s book, you get access to those, too, in the form of beautiful Pinterest-worthy images.
In order to make navigation as easy to follow as possible, I have created 3 broad sections on BookJelly, each with a specific form of content:
- Book Reviews – I read a lot and I like to share my perspective with the world. So this section is naturally the engine of this site. You can glean the reviews of both contemporary and classic business books.
- Blog – Sometimes a book inspires me to think about a new productivity hack or just a new approach to life. These thoughts and musings can be found under Blog posts section.
- Pearls of Wisdom – Along the way, I enjoy pulling out the key quotes, inspirational concepts, big ideas from the books. You can think of these as the greatest hits or best of moments from my favorite books.
So feel free to jump in, look around and enjoy BookJelly.
I usually dedicate 2-3 hours to reading and writing daily. On the weekends, I commit 7-8 hours – that’s close to 20 hours a week. Enough time for me to formulate some pretty strong ideas about life, and our place in it.
I don’t claim to have all the answers, but I certainly hope that I can inspire you to ask the right questions.
Please join me on this wonderful journey of exploration. Subscribe now to my email newsletter to get my latest thoughts, insights, and ruminations about books.
I hope you find something on my website that adds to your knowledge or at least, nudges you in the right direction. Wishing you the best!
– Amitesh