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Dhruv is Currently Reading

Dhruv Bhandula is currently reading

Brigham Young: A Life from Beginning to End (Old West)

by Hourly History

bookshelves: currently-reading, biographies, short-biographies, christianity, non-fiction, my-kindle-library

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Dec 31, 2025 07:17AM

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Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz

bookshelves: currently-reading, space-program, apollo-program, scientific-history, science, autobiographies, american-history, astrophysics, physics, non-fiction, audible-library, audiobooks, memoir

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Sep 27, 2025 01:35AM

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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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read in January 2015

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Dhruv Bhandula said: " A spellbinding tale of the happenings of the middle earth filled with love, despair, perils and adventures. "

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(page 134 of 412)
— Feb 03, 2021 10:23PM

Feb 04, 2026 01:33AM · see review

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Dhruv’s Notes & Highlights

Funny Side Up by Ruskin Bond

1 note & 8 highlights

The monkey population is definitely on the increase, and I wouldn't be surprised if one day it exceeds the human population. Of course, the way things are going, a time may come when we won't be able to distinguish between monkeys and ...more

Brilliant introductory line

Dhruv’s Quotes

“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
― Pico Iyer

tags: writing

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“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

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“On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

tags: encouragement, expectations, proactivity, self-development

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