Why change your IP address

Why change your IP address
Changing your IP address can be useful if you want to avoid being attacked by other users who
are targeting your IP address, or if you simply want a new online identity from an IP standpoint.
You can change your IP address on a Mac at any time through System.

Don’t worry. Changing your IP address is easy, even if you’ve never done it before.
It’s also perfectly safe and — as long as you’re not using it to break other laws — it’s
legal. Your computer and phone have several types of IP addresses (short for
internet protocol, a unique series of numbers that identify your specific device with
your online browsing), but we’ll focus on the type normally changed to protect your
privacy as you browse, and those which make you appear like you’re in a different
country.

If you just want to change your IP address without the additional privacy boost,
you can either enter your preferred IP manually, or you can just force your
device to retrieve a new one automatically.

Is it even legal to change your IP
address?

Yes, it’s legal to change your IP address in the US. People change their IP
addresses routinely when facing direct attacks on their online security, when
testing a website before it goes live, or when they simply prefer to protect their
privacy. Obviously, this FAQ is in no way offering legal advice and you should
consult a licensed attorney for specific questions, but the legal boundaries on
IP address changes usually start with what you change your IP to, and what
you do with that new IP address.

If you’ve changed your IP to impresonate individual or a business — often
called IP spoofing — you could be running afoul of the US Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act. You might also run into trouble if you’re changing your IP address
to access a website you’ve been banned from. IP spoofing is also a tool used
by some cybercriminals to perform a handful of well-known attacks, most
commonly those related to identity theft and those aimed at crippling websites
with organized distributed denial of service bombardment.

How to travel the world for free

Whenever I ask readers what the number one thing holding them back from traveling is I almost always get the same answer: Money.

Travelling the world with no money sounds like an impossible dream. But it is possible, and you can do it responsibly without breaking the bank. It should be said that there are some expenses you shouldn’t compromise on (like travel insurance) but there are tons of ways you can travel the world on a budget — including plenty of ways you can travel for free.

Travelling for free entails taking advantage of free accommodation, transportation, and activities that are already out there, thereby reducing your cost to zero. Here, you sacrifice comfort and convenience to extend your travels as long as possible.

And yeah don’t even worry about your food budget the restaurant often has eating challenges just take an insane challenge and fill your paunch

Hope you liked it

One thousand ways to make $ 1000

HOW TO START YOUR OWN BUSINESS

W
HEN Gustavus Swift, a youngster in knee breeches, dressed and sold his first
calf to the fisherfolk of Cape Cod, he laid the foundation of the largest meatpacking business in the world. The desire to make money—to have a business of
his own—was a driving force in the make-up of young Swift. In Barnstable, he
was known as a chap with a lot of “get up and go” to him. So it was not
surprising that when he felt the desire to make money, he didn’t waste his time
wishing, but took his courage in his two hands and started in the dressed beef
business in his dad’s backyard.

No doubt there were other young men in Barnstable who wanted to make money
too. But while they were wondering how they could make it, Gus Swift cut the
Gordian knot. It meant work for him. It was not a pleasant way to make money.
There was the possibility of his not being able to sell his calf after he had dressed
it. He had to walk miles in order to market his veal, for Cape Cod in those days
was a “spread out” sort of place.

But Swift didn’t care.

He wanted money

The work, the walking and the adventure were fun. And because he regarded
making money as fun instead of work, he later was able to come to Chicago and
start the great Swift packing business. How different from the average young
men of today! They are usually more interested in having a good time than they
are establishing themselves in a business of their own. Being in business is so
confining! So they concentrate on enjoying themselves, serene in their
philosophy that tomorrow is another day. If these people, and they are not all
young people either, worked half as hard at making money as they do at having a
good time, they would be rich.

Then there are people who are willing to work and do work hard at making
money, but they are not successful because they lack a target. They are like the
chap who hunts big game with a shotgun. They do a lot of shooting, but they bag
very little game. Next to being willing to pay the price of success in hard work,
the most important thing is to have a definite, clear-cut objective. Since it is
necessary to crawl before you walk, it is suggested that you make that objective
$1,000.

What you about this story of hard work and dedication

The remarkable and incredible 80/20 principal

In business, many examples of the 80/20 Principle have been validated.
20 per cent of products usually account for about 80 per cent of dollar sales
value; so do 20 per cent of customers. 20 per cent of products or customers
usually also account for about 80 per cent of an organization’s profits.

The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of causes, inputs or effort usually
lead to a majority of the results, outputs or rewards. Taken literally, this
means that, for example, 80 per cent of what you achieve in your job comes
from 20 per cent of the time spent. Thus for all practical purposes, four-
fifths of the effort—a dominant part of it—is largely irrelevant. This is
contrary to what people normally expect. So the 80/20 Principle states that
there is an inbuilt imbalance between causes and results, inputs and outputs,
and effort and reward.

The pattern underlying the 80/20 Principle was discovered in 1897, exactly
100 years ago, by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923). His
discovery has since been called many names, including the Pareto Principle,
the Pareto Law, the 80/20 Rule, the Principle of Least Effort and the
Principle of Imbalance; throughout this book we will call it the 80/20
Principle.

By a subterranean process of influence on many important
achievers, especially business people, computer enthusiasts and quality
engineers, the 80/20 Principle has helped to shape the modern world. Yet it
has remained one of the great secrets of our time—and even the select band
of cognoscenti who know and use the 80/20 Principle only exploit a tiny
proportion of its power.

So what did Vilfredo Pareto discover? He happened to be looking at
patterns of wealth and income in nineteenth-century England. He found that
most income and wealth went to a minority of the people in his samples.
Perhaps there was nothing very surprising in this. But he also discovered
two other facts that he thought highly significant. One was that there was a
consistent mathematical relationship between the proportion of people (as a
percentage of the total relevant population) and the amount of income or
wealth that this group enjoyed.4 To simplify, if 20 per cent of the population
enjoyed 80 per cent of the wealth,5 then you could reliably predict that 10
per cent would have, say, 65 per cent of the wealth, and 5 per cent would
have 50 per cent. The key point is not the percentages, but the fact that the
distribution of wealth across the population was predictably unbalanced.

What do you about this principle

What beauty means to you

  • Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. …
  • Life is full of beauty. …
  • There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me. …
  • Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

One difficulty for understanding beauty is due to the fact that it has both objective and subjective aspects: it is seen as a property of things but also as depending on the emotional response of observers. Because of its subjective side, beauty is said to be “in the eye of the beholder”.

It has been argued that the ability on the side of the subject needed to perceive and judge beauty, sometimes referred to as the “sense of taste”, can be trained and that the verdicts of experts coincide in the long run.

This would suggest that the standards of validity of judgments of beauty are intersubjective, i.e. dependent on a group of judges, rather than fully subjective or fully objective.

Conceptions of beauty aim to capture what is essential to all beautiful things. Classical conceptions define beauty in terms of the relation between the beautiful object as a whole and its parts: the parts should stand in the right proportion to each other and thus compose an integrated harmonious whole. Hedonist conceptions see a necessary connection between pleasure and beauty, e.g. that for an object to be beautiful is for it to cause disinterested pleasure. Other conceptions include defining beautiful objects in terms of their value, of a loving attitude towards them or of their function.

What comes to your mind when you think of beauty?

Comment below 😇

There is no honour in killing

An honor killing or shame killing  is the murder of an individual, either an outsider or a member of a family, by someone seeking to protect what they see as the dignity and honour of their family.

Honor killings are often connected to religion, caste and other forms of hierarchical social stratification, or to sexuality, and those killed will often be more liberal than the murderer rather than genuinely “dishonourable”. Most often, it involves the murder of a woman or girl by male family members, due to the perpetrators’ belief that the victim has brought dishonor or shame upon the family name, reputation or prestige.

Honor killings are often associated with rural and tribal areas, but they occur in urban areas too.

Though both men and women commit and are victims of honor killings, in many communities conformity to moral standards implies different behavior for men and women, including stricter standards for chastity for women. In many families, the honor motive is used by men as a pretext to restrict the rights of women.

Although such crimes are widely suspected to be underreported, the United Nations Population Fund estimates that as many as 5,000 women are killed annually for reasons of honor. These crimes take place throughout the world and are not limited to one specific religion or faith. However, they have rather significantly and consistently occurred in various parts of the Middle East and South Asia, with nearly half of all honor killings occurring in India and Pakistan.


Although such crimes are widely suspected to be underreported, the United Nations Population Fund estimates that as many as 5,000 women are killed annually for reasons of honor. These crimes take place throughout the world and are not limited to one specific religion or faith. However, they have rather significantly and consistently occurred in various parts of the Middle East and South Asia, with nearly half of all honor killings occurring in India and Pakistan.null

In the 21st century, there was an increased international awareness of honor killing, however, some countries remained reluctant to take the necessary steps to effectively criminalize it. In the relatively uncommon event that a man was prosecuted for the killing, the subsequent trial would often focus on the woman’s alleged behaviour, rather than the violence committed against her. When a man was found guilty, the defendant could claim that the crime had been committed to restore sullied family honor and petition the court for a reduced sentence. In India, for example, the government enacted strict penalties for violence against women during the 1980s. However, honor killings based on intercaste and interreligious marriages continued to take place in rural areas, where they were largely unreported to police because of direct or indirect support among village residents. Such murders were often ruled as accidents when reported. A woman beaten, burned, strangled, shot, or stabbed to death could be ruled a suicide, even if there were multiple wounds and there was no possibility the woman could have killed herself.

Body parts that you can trade for money

It’s will amuse you to know that you can sell your body parts and People will pay hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of dollars for certain body parts.

Note that “selling” a body part isn’t the same as putting your futon up for sale on Craigslist. Except for selling ad space on your skin, most forms of giving body parts are technically donations, but it’s common practice to be compensated in cash. 

Being compensated for all of the parts listed below is legal, but we don’t necessarily recommend it. There are other — more conventional — ways to supplement your income.

1. Hair up to $1,000

Like blood, hair is easy enough to donate to a good cause (like Locks of Love). But it’s also entirely possible to sell it at a pretty sweet price point.

The trick is to keep it as long and “virginal” as possible. That means no harmful hair dyes or other chemical treatments that could damage the quality. Buyers are likely looking to make wigs, and they’re not going to be interested in your split ends.

According to Wisebread, one woman made as much as $1,000 on her locks in just a week by posting an ad on TheHairTrader.org.

2. Sperm: $ 125 per sample

The going rate: $125 for each acceptable sperm sample — which can add up to about $600 per month — according to the Sperm Bank of California.

You’ll have to meet some very specific qualifications first. Here’s the list of requirements for potential donors at SBC:

• Between ages 20 and 39

• At least 5’7″

• Can make a six to 12 month commitment

• Live within 25 miles of the office

• Can provide a family medical history

• Are able to work legally in the US

• Have completed or are pursuing a college degree

Look for sperm banks near you.

Get paid for the survey

What Are Paid Surveys?

A paid survey is simply a regular survey that pay you a reward for completing it. There are companies that spends a lot of money every year to get to know what consumers think about their products and services and what they can do better.

How much do I earn?

The value of each survey can differ depending of many factors such as the time it takes to complete it. Usually you get around $1 for every 10 minute survey but can be higher. It also depends on how fast you are to answer the questions.

How to grow your Instagram!

Are you someone who struggles with low Instagram traffic? Do you want to grow your business with Instagram? Well if you are someone who is using Instagram just to pass time and for entertainment then this article is not for you. But if you are a small business owner or an influencer and someone wondering to know ways to grow Instagram. Then you are at the right blog. I will be telling you how you can grow your Instagram and your business too.

Firstly let me make you conscious of some missteps that you might be doing.
• Having no plan
• No structure of post
• Not posting consistently
• Not engaging with the audience and other relating accounts.
• Having a confusing profile
• Neglecting story and reels.

Now as there are many mistakes that someone makes on Instagram similarly there are certain steps by which you can grow your Instagram. To grow your Instagram you have to work on certain areas of your account
1. Profile and feed
2. Content quality
3. Stories and reels
4. Going with the Trend

Working on the profile and feed
• As a social media person firstly you need to have a well-structured profile. Change your account to a business profile. Think of your profile photo. Now if you are someone who is an influencer then put your face on the profile. But if you are someone running a business then it will be good to put your logo on the profile. Write a clear and crisp bio description of you on the profile, that should make an impact on the visitors. Introduce you and your business on the profile so that visitors don’t face any confusion regarding your profile.
• Having a theme-based feed is also a not a bad idea. But you can organize your feed in a theme-based manner. Your feed will make a noticeable impact on the visitors. When someone will see your profile feed and will feel attraction he or she will engage with it.
• If you have a website or store then put that on your profile. It will enhance visitor trust in your profile.

Working with the content
When it comes to content the only key is following a niche profile. Post a good quality content. Posting something irrelevant is surely of no use. The other thing that works great is the entertainment. No doubt many people scroll through Instagram for entertainment. They are someone who opens Instagram with no prior things in their mind. But just think of that if you can provide them their entertainment then they will engage with you. If you show them something entertaining and relating ut with your product it is obvious that your product will leave an impact on viewers’ minds. The person who opened Instagram with no idea will have your product in his mind and it will be a great possibility that he will react to your content.

Getting on with the trend
• Link your account to the trend. Makes a post relating them to a Trend this is going. Recreate trending reels with your content. Use trending songs to showcase your products.
• Go with the trending memes. Connect your content to the memes. People find memes very entertaining so they react to them.
• Research with the trend and find which Trend fits your niche or profile. And then go for it.

Now let’s talk about the strategy.

1. Content plan
2. Engaging with the audience
3. Analysing insights and performance

Content plan: Have a plan before posting anything. Write the idea. Decide what you have to post? Think in terms of story and reels. Make sure you do the proper research. Go through the hashtags that are following the content post. Use some trending hashtags to get random traffic. As we talked earlier about the trend, so trends can the high ups for your profile. People like to see what they connect to, make a connection between your post and people. They must feel connected so they can react.

Post: Post clear and use high-quality images in the feed. Use valid and niche hashtags. Make a theme-based feed.

Story: Posting a story and showing up yourself in the story makes a personal connection with the audience. They get to know that you are constantly active. Stories have so many interactive options by which you can conduct a poll, ask a question, these are the best way to engage with the audience.

Reels: Reels are the new gig that everyone should try. Talking about why you should try reels? Instagram shows your reel to the relevant audience. Reels give a huge opportunity to go viral increase your branding. Instagram allows you to make a reel for up to 30 seconds. Post reels with trading topics and connects them with your product. Make entertaining videos. Your audience will enjoy and engage with you.

IGTV: The idea of IGTV is to serve a long video. IGTV is much a way similar to television channels. Instead of searching content by topics, flip to IGTV as you please. The challenge that adds up with IGTV is they can’t be reached with hashtags. So it makes it harder to reach new followers through IGTV. To get success from IGTV you need to have a large following. You can post tutorial videos, introduction videos, FAQ videos, on IGTV.

Engaging with the audience

Don’t just do posting and ghosting. It’s very important to engage with the audience after you post. Reply to comments. Connect with other followers who reacted to your previous post. Try to know the behavior of the audience. Make a connection with followers through polls, quizzes, and DMs.

How can someone dare to ignore the Instagram algorithm? While no one can crack the Instagram Algorithm, these are the things you can proactively do to equalize its effects.

Analyzing insights and performance

It’s important to analyze your post. Keep a track of reports. Note what worked for you and what didn’t. Engage with the audience through comments, story polls, and DMs. Look through what the audience wants from you. Understand your audience before building your connection.

A tip that can be used to grow your Instagram is connecting other social platforms. Post on other platforms like tik-tok, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter,… etc. This will increase your audience for sure. And if you are someone who is running a business they will surely help you gain more clients. Instagram have a great user base, but it’s not easy to reach.

Lastly, do what you like. This is not a rule that more followers lead to more engagement and more clients. Engage with what you have. And this will take you to expansion.

What amazements can a good credit system does


You can survive with bad credit, but it’s not always easy and not cheap. Establishing a good credit score will help you save money and make your financial life much easier. If you’re looking for reasons to maintain your good credit, here are some great benefits to having a good credit score.

Low Interest Rates on Credit Cards and Loans

The interest rate is one of the costs you pay for borrowing money and, often, the interest rate you get is directly tied to your credit score. If you have a good credit score, you’ll almost always qualify for the best interest rates, and you’ll pay lower finance charges on credit card balances and loans. The less money you pay in interest, the faster you’ll pay off the debt and the more money you have for other expenses.

Shah Rukh Khan makes it to the Indian Sign Language dictionary, launched by PM Narendra Modi…

September 23 is praised each year as the International Day of Sign Languages. As time passes, the world is turning out to be increasingly more mindful of the issues looked by the various types of crippled individuals. The administrations of different nations have been finding a way different ways to guarantee that they can have as satisfying a day to day existence as could be expected.

India is no special case. Recently, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, dispatched the Indian Sign Language (ISL) word reference. What’s more, presently it has become visible that there’s additionally a Bollywood association in this word reference!

There are almost 10,000 words in the ISL word reference and one of them is, in all honesty, Shah Rukh Khan! The word reference is created and delivered by the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Center in DVD structure and cumbersome print form and comprises of words and their relating signs.

One may expect that the non-verbal motion for Shah Rukh Khan should spread one’s hands, which is the brand name posture of the hotshot. All things considered, according to the communication through signing dictionary, one needs to hold the fingers of your right hand like a firearm and tap over your heart twice to portray Shah Rukh Khan.

In the mean time, entertainer Ranveer Singh has been doing his bit for the Deaf people group. Today, on the event of the International Day of Sign Languages, he’ll dispatch five music recordings made for the conference impeded under his record name, IncInk.

The mark’s YouTube channel today will likewise run a 12-hour computerized mission to bring issues to light with regards to the requirements and battles of the meeting weakened. He has likewise mentioned the public authority to pronounce ISL as the 23rd perceived language under the Constitution of India.

Sonu Sood Evaded Over Rs 20 Crore In Taxes: Income Tax Department

On Saturday the Income Tax Department accused Bollywood actor Sonu Sood of financial irregularities worth over Rs 250 crore by way of unutilised charitable funds, bogus contracts and circular transactions with one of his partner companies, and diverting funds to evade taxes, officials said. ” Sonu Sood has evaded taxes of over Rs 20 crore”, the income tax department said in a statement today, after visiting his Mumbai home for three days in a row for a search. Mr Sood, 48, had recently announced a tie-up with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party government.

The disclosures came after IT sleuths’ swoop for two days on some 28 premises in Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kanpur and Gurugram in one of the biggest such investigative actions on any actor or entities linked with him. The operations continue. In a rare official statement, the Income Tax Department, without naming him, said that Sood evaded tax worth Rs 20 crore so far, besides listing other alleged wrongdoings emerging in its probe.

The tax department said Mr Sood’s non-profit also raised Rs 2.1 crore from overseas donors using a crowdfunding platform in violation of the law – Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act – that governs such transactions.

“During the course of search at the premises of the actor and his associates, incriminating evidences pertaining to tax evasion have been found. The main modus operandi followed by the actor had been to route his unaccounted income in the form of bogus unsecured loans from many bogus entities,” the tax department said in the statement.

Reactions of different political parties

Recently, Sood was in the news after his meeting with Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, where he was declared brand ambassador of the AAP government’s ‘Desh ke mentors’ programme for guiding students in making career choices. During the lockdown, Sood had helped migrants reach their native places by arranging transportation and food.After the I-T department initiated its searches on Wednesday, Kejriwal came out in his support, tweeting that there are many difficulties on the path of truth, but it always wins.“With Sonu Sood ji, there are prayers of lakhs of families of India who got his support in difficult times,” he wrote.

The Shiv Sena also came out in support of Sood and linked the I-T searches with the actor’s decision to become brand ambassador for the Delhi government.An editorial in the party’s mouthpiece Saamana said that the Bharatiya Janata Party had earlier praised the actor’s humanitarian work during the Covid-19 crisis. But the party claimed that as soon as the Delhi and Punjab governments collaborated with the actor, Sood became a tax evader.

The Saamana editorial on Friday said that Sood’s relief efforts had earned him popularity. The Shiv Sena also pointed out that BJP leaders had also attended events associated with the actor.“It was emphatically claimed that Sonu’s great humanitarian work was inspired by the BJP’s traditions,” the Shiv Sena said. “But as soon as the Delhi and Punjab government tried to join hands with him, he was declared a tax evader.”The Shiv Sena alleged that it had become a policy of the BJP-led government to deploy central agencies against those who are not associated with the party.

Sonu Sood has participated in many charitable event during lockdown

Sood has received widespread praise for his charity work during the coronavirus pandemic. He had organised special flights and buses for migrants stranded due to the countrywide lockdown in April-May last year.The actor had also arranged for oxygen for patients suffering during the second wave of the pandemic in May this year.

Reactions over social media

THREE TIPS FOR GOOD COMMUNICATION

From our childhood we are speaking daily with your family, friends, relatives but we can’t speak a good communication skills we the people who are strange to us. But few people have brilliant skill in communication. So, here are some steps to improve the communication skills.

1)BUILT A COMMUNICATION WITH EYE CONTACT

First and main steps to build the communication is eye contact. This plays a important role in the communication. Many of us do mistake while we are speaking like we don’t look at them, we use cellphone during the communication. So, first of all we should correct them and practice eye contact. Many business people use eye contact as the advantage in the negotiation for their purpose. So practice eye contact.

2) Be patience for their speech

Always be patience to the speaking partner. Patience is one of the most valuable skill in the world which may enables us to help in improve decision making, communication and power solving situation. Listen and explore them with your mind what they are taking.

PEOPLE WHO ARE GOOD COMMUNICATOR ARE THE GOOD LISTERS.

Here are some tips practising patience

  1. Be a good listener
  2. Be in present moment
  3. Make smile

3)Look them with smile

When you are starting the conversation starts with smile which may boost your confidence and ensure that you will be kind. Many people things smiling may unwelcome to others but smiling will help you to better communications. Smile is the way to tell the feedback to your partner and also boost our mood.

THE GREATEST SELF IS A PEACEFUL SMILE, THAT ALWAYS SEES THE WORLD SMILING BAD

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6 books to read for hot book summer (even though it isn’t summer anymore..)

1) The Bastard of Istanbul – Elif Shafak

Elif Shafak tackles her country’s terrible past in a bright and colourful tale set in both Turkey and the United States in her second novel published in English. The “bastard” of the title, Asya, a nineteen-year-old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, is at its centre, as are the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the vivacious, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlour and is Asya’s mother; Banu, who has recently discovered herself as a clairvoyant; and Cevriy. One estranged brother, Armanoush, resides in Arizona with his wife and their Armenian daughter. Armanoush discovers the Kazanci sisters and makes close friends with Asya when she secretly travels to Istanbul in quest of her true identity. A secret is revealed that connects the two families and links them to the deportations and killings of Armenians in 1915. The Bastard of Istanbul is a daring, compelling novel full of strong, memorable female characters that will affirm Shafak as a rising star of world literature.


2) 10 minutes, 38 seconds in this strange world – Elif Shafak

Each minute after her death brings a sensual memory to Leila: the taste of spiced goat stew sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar used by the women to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee shared by Leila with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each recollection also remembers the friends she made at each pivotal point in her life – people who are now anxiously searching for her.The best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul returns with a stunning new novel.


3) Conversations with friends – Sally Rooney

Frances is twenty-one years old, calm, and very perceptive. She commits herself to a life of the mind—and to the gorgeous and eternally self-possessed Bobbi, her best friend and partner in crime, as a college student and aspiring writer. The two young ladies were lovers in high school and now perform spoken-word poetry together in Dublin, where a journalist called Melissa recognises their talent. Frances is unwillingly impressed by Melissa’s elegant home and tall, attractive husband after being drawn into her orbit. Private property is a cultural evil, according to Frances, and Nick, a bored actor who never quite lived up to his promise, resembles patriarchy in flesh.But, as funny as their flirtation seemed at first, it soon gives birth to a peculiar familiarity that none of them anticipates. As Frances strives to maintain control over her life, her relationships with Nick, her difficult and unhappy father, and eventually, Bobbi, become increasingly difficult to manage. Frances’ cerebral certainties begin to give way to something new: a painful and bewildering manner of living from moment to moment, as she tries desperately to reconcile herself to her body’s desires and vulnerabilities.


4) Normal people – Sally Rooney


Connell and Marianne act as though they don’t know each other in school. She is lonely, prideful, and very private, whereas he is popular and well-adjusted, the star of the school soccer team. When Connell picks up his mother from Marianne’s housekeeping job, a peculiar and lasting bond develops between the two adolescents, which they are desperate to keep hidden.They’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin a year later. Marianne has established herself in a new social environment, but Connell remains on the sidelines, hesitant and unsure.Marianne and Connell circle each other throughout their college years, wandering toward other people and opportunities but always magnetically, irresistibly attracted back together. As she descends into self-destruction and he seeks purpose elsewhere, they must decide how far they are ready to go to save the other.Sally Rooney uses her great psychological acumen and flawlessly sparse writing to examine the intricacies of class, the euphoria of first love, and the complicated entanglements of family and friendship in this narrative.


5) Mexican gothic – Silvia Moreno-Gracia

Noemí Taboada travels to High Place, a remote home in the Mexican countryside, after receiving a desperate letter from her newlywed cousin pleading for help to save her from an unknown fate. She has no idea what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a dashing Englishman, is a complete stranger, and Noemí has no knowledge of the area.Noemí is likewise an unlikely rescuer: she’s a stunning debutante, and her elegant dresses and flawless red lipstick are more appropriate for cocktail parties than amateur investigation.But she’s also strong and intelligent, with an unbreakable drive to succeed, and she’s not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both frightening and fascinating; not of his father, the elderly patriarch who appears to be enamoured with Noemí; and not even of the home itself, which begins to enter Noemí’s dreams with images of blood and death.The family’s youngest kid is her lone ally in this hostile environment. He is shy and polite, and he appears to want to help Noemí, but he may also be concealing horrible family secrets. Because there are a lot of mysteries hidden beyond the walls of High Place.The family’s former opulence and defunct mining enterprise shielded them from inquisitive eyes, but when Noemí investigates further, she uncovers tales of brutality and lunacy.And Noemí, fascinated by High Place’s terrible yet alluring environment, may soon find it hard to leave this fascinating mansion.


6) The Song Of Achilles – Madeline Miller

Achilles, known as “the best of all Greeks,” is the son of the harsh sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus. He is strong, quick, and gorgeous, and those who encounter him find him fascinating. Patroclus is a shy young prince who has been exiled from his country following a horrific act of violence. Despite incurring the gods’ wrath, they form an unbreakable friendship after being brought together by accident.They are taught the techniques of battle and healing by the centaur Chiron, but when word arrives that Helen of Sparta has been stolen, all of Greece’s heroes are summoned to lay siege to Troy in her honour.Achilles, lured by the prospect of a bright future, joins their cause, and Patroclus, torn between love and dread for his buddy, follows. They had no idea that the merciless Fates will put them to the ultimate test and demand a horrible sacrifice.