I was very chuffed when Shalini from Shalzmojo asked me to guest post for her for [ #WisdomWednesday ] I have known Shalini when we met for the Breaking Barriers event organised by WomenWeb last year. She is a spirited and generous person. I really enjoy her bubbly and friendly nature, always willing to lend an ear. …
Unfairy Tales is a retelling of the old, original fairy tales we enjoyed as kids. All of us would have regaled our kids with various versions of these stories but never like this. Carthick has put his own unique spin on the tales. Each story has a different flavour and makes them good and a …
The Great Indian Literature Festival was a three-day literature festival, held in Udaipur. It was an invite only event and I was one of the invitees and a panellist as well. You can follow it on TGIL Facebook Page here. The debates, discussions and impact of bringing regional literature to fore as well as the …
Guilty Pleasures is an inter-cultural love story between Alex and Sarai. He is from the US and she is from Thailand. There is an instant attraction between the two but when Alex finds out that, she is his brother’s friend he wants nothing to do with Sarai. The brothers have an ex-wife/ ex-girlfriend in common. …
This book is a delightful story about how children can overcome bullying with each other’s help and support. The kids make friends and make the new girl welcome. She too stands up for reading and books which is another good lesson for children. Bullying is encountered by all of us during our life. Rare is …
ABOUT THE BOOK – How to Make and Publish a Children’s Picture Book: How I created and promoted my picture book series by Werner Stejskal How I create and promote my own picture book series – This booklet is all about my experiences on the long journey of publishing my picture book series and becoming …
I love reading, books, magazines, papers and of course surfing the net. Even when I am packing my stuff I find the most interesting and intriguing things to read. So it was quite obvious that I would eventually go into doing book reviews. Since my first book review appeared on this site due to the …
Thoughts, wisdom, hope, desires and expressions, all add up to become a life and when you read those thoughts, it give a glimpse of a life lived and cherished. Recently I had read the sublime memoir Age of Anxiety. This is an effort to know the person who wrote that he is human much like …
Karmic Kids The Story of Parenting Nobody Told You! by Kiran Manral Synopsis Move aside Tiger Mom and forget Helicopter Parenting, Karmickids is the view from the other side of the fence – of laid back parenting, of giving in to food jags, of making unstructured play time mandatory and of not bursting a blood …
Mother Daughter Book Reviews is pleased to be coordinating a Book Blast for the middle grade time-travel thriller “Through the Shimmer of Time” by Jennifer Jensen (November 2 to 4, 2015). Grab an e-copy from Amazon for only 99 cents, November 2 to 4 and for $1.99, November 6 and 7, 2015 (regular price $3.99). …
The authors that I am sharing with you for the alphabet H were long decided; even though the post was not prepared. Their names had been doing cartwheels in my mind’s blogging corner and yet I could not get this post on time! Life loves throwing googlies to us and yesterday was one such time. …
Today is the theme reveal day and I am so excited since I finally found my theme just last week! I had almost given up on the challenge, moving to another city in April and no theme, no posts, no ideas; so worried I was. It was possible only when a fellow blogger and very …
One To Love By Michelle Monkou Synopsis Nothing is going to keep Belinda Toussaint from her goal of starting a horse-riding camp for kids who need a fresh start, which means teaming up with the man who’s been hired to help turn her vision into reality. But soccer legend Jesse Santiago is as arrogant as …
This is the second book by that I have read by Amit Shankar and I like his writing style more and more. The ideas he has expressed through the struggle, rise and fall of Avantika are indeed deep and thought provoking. The character and flaws of Avi, her self-absorption, her denial, her struggle …