A new year comes with so many new resolutions, new beginnings and so on. So lets see what book to read as we start a new year with new hopes leaving all the negativities behind.

“A Book of New Beginnings: Some Words For Living” by Jerry Pinto is a collection of heart warming thoughts, the kind that settles in your heart and consciousness when you read them one by one.

It a book that tells us that beginnings are all around us, although they are often disguised. Like, the turning of the soil, the blossoming of the buds, a new friendship, a new year, or even a new day are all signs, showing that life goes on despite all the setbacks.

This book serves as an antidote to most of the problems we often grapple with. It is a curation of sweet verse and shining words of wisdom by poets and artists along with beautiful images to remind us that all is not lost.

This shining anthology is a treasure of meditations, consolations and inspirations.

From Rabindranath Tagore to the Dalai Lama, Vivekanand to Orwell, Jerry Pinto to Ghalib, a sign on a truck, and much more nuggets on wisdom on living. Renewal, love, peace, perseverance are the themes that are covered in this slim book.

The collection of quotes, long and short, all chosen so well that they ease the reader into the quiet, contemplative tone of the work.

The book is certainly a comfort read that is meant to be cherished and revisited from time to time. A perfect gift for those we love.

A small but quite motivating book. A must read.

©️✍️Sheetal Pradhan Deshpande