She was dressed so smartly, looking so well and I felt so good to meet her after so many years. As I went and met her, she met me like a stranger…. Every time you met her, it was like you met her for the first time. Introducing yourself again and again and …
Sunday is for late mornings and watching the time slip by, feeling lazy and enjoying it too! Today was no different and I was enjoying reading my ‘real paper newspaper’ instead of the regular books that I keep reading. The nagging thought that I had a post to do on my blog was being brushed …
MY REVIEW :This story makes us sit back and think about how lucky we are and how many things we take for granted in our lives. The story unfolds with a child marriage and even though in today’s day and age we think such things only happen in TV serials but that’s not true. If …
I am very happy to announce the beginning of another section on my blog – Author Interviews. The logical next step for me and my blog as an extension and continuation of book reviews is Author Interviews. I thought of what would be a truly special way to start the interviews and decided to request …
If you just think and dream, the possibilities are endless but they are just dreams. If you imagine stories and tales, making castles in the air; they are just air and soon they disappear! Ruminating and recollecting, pondering and contemplating; it is all just a waste… Thoughts are fleeting and ideas are forgotten; stories are …
Everywhere I looked, where ever I read, I just found high praise for this book KINGDOM COME and I was so interested to read it. Boy! Was it difficult to get my hands on one but thanks to the #TornadoGiveaway by +TheBookClub and the #WriteTribe Book review program I did finally manage to get my …
“Cubistic Embrace,” Pastel by Ric Hall and Ron Schmitt, Courtesy B2 Fine Art Gallery The vice-like grip & sweat stuck to her as he hugged her tightly. She took a breath & inhaled the smell, it felt putrid & nauseous. As she pushed him away, she felt his blow but they were “three in a …
SUNFLOWER BLOG FEST Today is the day I had marked on my calendar for Tina Downey and then in the morning I got a mail for a post update from Damyanti. It was like the perfect reminder, making sure I don’t miss. I had very briefly interacted with Tina during the A to Z. I …
The prompt had got me thinking as I had been reading and commenting on blogs since morning and the first page I opened showed bad news for an assignment, the next for a friend and then the posts I read were sad too. People being let down, pulled down and pushed down. It made me …
Devika with her “Playing with Fire” I was very excited to read the second book by Devika as I had high expectations as I had already reviewed her first book When I See Your Face earlier. I was not disappointed J This book is very different from her previous work and it made me appreciate …
The book of poetry by Maitreyee was different when I first saw it, the empty boats on the cover and talking about a place and not any characters. My interest was piqued and as I turned the pages and read through the first few pages I realised that the characters were there, not one or …