Finally April is over and so is this year’s AtoZ challenge. My theme was a breakdown of my reading variety via some very quirky bookish words. Here is the reflections post to describe how it went this year. … Read More Reflections 2023-Of quirky words & bookish endorsements
Book-to-screen adaptations is the most obvious and sincerest form of flattery in appreciation of the awesomeness of the tale. It’s quite an uphill task to render the book into a screenplay and stick to the storyline’s originality. Sharing the top 10 such movies based on books that were perfect for me.… Read More Warzlement – 10 fabulous book-to-screen adaptations
Have you ever pondered over the fact if you are a bookstore browser on an online shopper? Which one would you choose and why? Sharing my choice and thoughts on this today.… Read More Vellichor – Bookstores versus online portals
Suspense Suspense is the anticipation of a mystery’s conclusion or the puzzle’s final solution. It is quite a dramatic genre and keeps the readers hooked until the end. I am sharing five suspense-filled books that I have read recently. The first crime and detective book I read was Sherlock Holmes, and thereafter I was hooked… Read More Suspense-5 books that kept me hooked till the end
Historical fiction is my second most favorite genres and I cannot get enough of it. Highlighting five of my favorite ones in today’s post for A to Z challenge.… Read More Portmanteaus – 5 historical fiction that tell a bewitching tale
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak didnt live upto my expectations; find out why in this book review… Read More Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak | Book Review |
2022 has been a mixed bag of reading for me with some lazy months and some with intense bouts of reading. I have read some very good ones this year and hope to continue this in 2023 too. … Read More A sneak peek into my fiction choices in 2022
Begin 2023 with an exciting 12 months reading challenge involving 12 books read over 12 months and 12 book reviews to be posted on the blog by guest book reviewers. Prizes and giveaway included in this challenge. … Read More Giveaway & a Reading Challenge 2023
Read all about the quirky, zany and mirth inducing book that I recently finished reading after a particularly heavy read. Full of wit and unexpected romance, The Flatshare is what I needed to round up the year on a hearty note.… Read More The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary | Book Review |
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is that perfect book to encapsulate the circus life in Post depression America when alcohol prohibition was on an all time high. The romance shown against this backdrop is beautiful and makes you feel warm and tingly inside. Read on my review of this 5/5 rated book.… Read More Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen | Book Review |
Having read The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak, I had a great many expectations from this book. Happy to say I was not disappointed at all. This book has been shortlisted for the Booker award. I had picked up reading or rather listening to this book on the Audible for the book prompt… Read More 10 Minutes 38 seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak | Book Review |
An interesting peek into time honored favorite classic of Ramya Abhinand as she guest blogs about her review of this fantastic book and tells us why its her favorite.… Read More The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Book Review |
The BAR blogging group has started out with the pre-BarAThon prompts for the members to sharpen their writing style. The prompts are out every week and this is Week #3 and my take is on the prompt – Temptation… Read More | Fiction | The Apple of My Temptation {#BarAThon}
The Rosie Project was sent to me by a bookish friend who knew that I am nuts about Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory and advocated this book as Sheldon falling in love. I couldn’t wait to read this book, such was my excitement.… Read More #BookReview: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
I am attempting to write a short story a day on some of the photographs taken during my recent vacation in Uttarakhand. Its a great way to get my creative writing mojo back and best use of time in the times of Corona Virus. Some of the stories gather “inspiration” from people I have met on this holiday, their lifestyle or simply some anecdote related around them. All characters, location and incidents are a figment of my hyper active imagination.… Read More Fiction Writing: The Gossip in the Fig tree
I had managed to read The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri on my recent vacation and I was blown away by the bittersweet nuances of human relationships and eccentricities in each and every story in this wonderful short collection of stories.… Read More #BookReview: The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Little Paris Bookshop came to me as a gift from a dear friend who had read and loved it so much that she thought I would like it too. I cherish such treasures and assured her of savoring the book. For this is an absolutely sensuous book which deals with a love for books. If you do get around to reading it, then I hope you treat it so.… Read More #BookReview – The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
This is the fourth edition of the Words Matter blog hop with Write Tribe and this month’s prompt is “Twenty years ago, I..”… Read More #WordsMatter- Twenty years ago I escaped from home
I am participating in the #WordsMatter bloghop this month and this post is in response to the prompt Outside my Window. I am attempting fiction after ages and hope this is well received by my readers.… Read More #WordsMatter – Outside my window
| Book Review | Neil Gaiman | The Graveyard Book | Ghost story | Children’s book | Young Adult | Fantasy Fiction |… Read More #BookReview – The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
