My Favorite Books of 2017
byLooking back at 2017, it wasn’t a good reading year. After a disappointing run with books accepted for review, I decided to stick to…
Looking back at 2017, it wasn’t a good reading year. After a disappointing run with books accepted for review, I decided to stick to…
I don’t know what to say about this book except that it surprised me with every turn of the page. On the surface, this…
This book came to me as a review copy. I really loved the cover and the title, and promptly signed up for it, thinking…
Welcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued. I haven’t been accepting books for review for quite some time…
I was really excited when I heard the news that Arundhati Roy, after the longest break, was back with a new fictional book. The very day…
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman is the book I chose to take with me during my holiday to Assam and Meghalaya. I picked up…
This is the first book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that I have read. Her TED talk was so inspiring that I wanted to read her complete…
In spite of an unpromising start, I ended up really loving Fingersmith. This is a very Dickensian tale about orphans, asylums, devious plots, and,…
When I first expressed interest in reading Sarah Waters, many bloggers recommended that I start with Fingersmith. I however ended up picking up and…
Penning a novel, short story, script or even an anthology of poetry is never easy. You may have the plot mapped out in your head, and loosely translated in a notepad, but sitting down and creating those characters and worlds residing in your head is challenging. Once you’ve found the time and perseverance to finally sit down and type your story into completion, you’re excited to push it out of the nest and watch it soar – after all, it’s a hefty accomplishment.