Book Review: AMAL UNBOUND by Aisha Saeed

Book Details Title: AMAL UNBOUND Author: Aisha Saeed # of pages: 240 Author Profile Tara Frejas is a cloud-walker who needs caffeine to fuel her travels. By day, she works in project management and events, and she writes down her daydreams at night. She began publishing fiction for public consumption in 2004, posting her pieces…

A Retrospective: The week that was – 19w29

This weekend I binged watched an old Disney show, review coming up soon. I try, every month, to clear my TBR on GoodReads. I keep on adding more to the list, tch. I read Amal Unbound, finally. It has been sitting on my TBR for a year, literally! I had added it on June 27,…

Book Promotion: Yeh To Hona Hi Thha (Hindi)

  Title: ये तो होना ही था: हैप्पिली एवर आफ्टर #६ Kindle Edition Summary: फ़सीहा डाइजिस्टों की दीवानी है। डाइजिस्ट की कहानियां पढ़ पढ़ कर उसे रिवायती लव स्टोरी से नफ़रत सी हो गई है। और कुछ नया, कुछ अलग ख़ाहिश रखती है। इस का निकाह उस के कज़न समआन से हो गया है। वो…

Rain, where have you disappeared?

It is extremely hot these days. I mean, it is worse than May, which is supposed to be the hottest. It rained daily for the first two weeks of July. But for past ten days, it is either dry or very little rain. The weather is humid and suffocating. It is extra difficult for me…

Book Review: SETTLE THE SCORE / HUSTLE PLAY by Tara Frejas

Book Details Title: SETTLE THE SCORE / HUSTLE PLAY Author: Tara Frejas # of pages: 66 Author Profile Tara Frejas is a cloud-walker who needs caffeine to fuel her travels. By day, she works in project management and events, and she writes down her daydreams at night. She began publishing fiction for public consumption in…

A Retrospective: The week that was – 19w28

This week, I slowed down. Seriously, I put in effort to slow down. I read only two books. I tried reading new authors – both were surprisingly nice.  I still crochet one round at a time. Yet again, I am overwhelmed with the number of ideas floating in my head, so much that I cannot…

Do short stories work?

As a reader, I love short stories. As a writer, I find it difficult to write. As an opinionated person, I also feel that there are few, very few people who like reading short stories. I have a series of one star reviews owing simply to the fact that the reader wants a longer story. It makes me…

Book Promotion: A True Lie (Happily Ever Afters #5)

Introduction: I like writing about small individual habits and traits that may have a much bigger consequence. Something as silly as calling names can scar a person for life. A casual remark may affect someone deeply. This story is about peer pressure among young kids. A group of teenage girls, in an age of smartphones…

Reading Roundup #3: Asian Writers

It started in May 2019. Ramadan began and I forgot to post about it. I have read some Asian women writers in recently and here is a summary of my reading spree. The Contract By Zeenat Mahal Beauty Is But Skin Deep By Sundari Venkatraman Red Rose Dating Agency (By Sundari Venkatraman) The Runaway Bridegroom(By…