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Dhruv Bhandula

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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

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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

“Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: follow-your-dreams, imagination

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“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

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“Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”
― V.S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River

tags: inspirational-quotes, writing-philosophy

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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
― Pico Iyer

tags: inspirational, love, self-awareness, travel

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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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