I am my mother, and my grandmother, and my great-grandmother; I am all the women that came before me. Don’t ask me to lower my voice, or wipe my tears. Don’t say I have no reason to be angry or upset. You do not see what I see, you do not feel what I feel….
10 years’ challenge
Beginning a lazy Sunday with these statistics. What fun! Have I said that I want to work at Goodreads? Someone please make it happen!
Reasonable Goals are Boring- The 201st Post
Exactly 363 days ago I decided to take charge of my life. I was tired of feeling like a shadow of my teenage self that hustled hard and was much happier. I fondly looked back on the years I had spent frantically writing all the time, and soaking up every book I could lay my…
Book Review: Zen in the Art of Writing
I found every page in this book to be quivering with such passion that I am almost inspired to follow Bradbury’s advice of writing a thousand words a day. I know it’s a daunting prospect and I will probably not last a week, but his energy in this book is just so infectious that it’s…
2019 Reading Challenge Done, With a Month to Spare
Now I can focus on editing my thesis with single minded devotion 😅 If you are interested in following my journey with books, come find me on Goodreads!
Gratitude #30- Self
It’s the last day of Gratitude November, and today’s prompt is fittingly Self. The last one month has been good for introspection. It’s been an otherwise crazy month, what with end-of-the-semester evaluation and exhaustion at work and the slow pace of the editing of my thesis at home. I’m glad I had the structure of…
Book Review: 84 Charing Cross Road
I was looking for books about books and came across this delightful epistolary work yesterday night. Once I started it I just had to keep reading, and finished it in one utterly satisfying sitting. 84, Charing Cross Road is a collection of letters spanning twenty years from an American freelance writer, Helene Hanff to a…
Book Review: I’d Rather Be Reading
Anne Bogel, the author of this book, is also the creator of the famous blog Modern Mrs. Darcy and runs the famous podcast What Should I read Next. Though I don’t follow either of those, I know that they have a massive following. That led me to this book, and the title as well as…
Gratitude #29- Dreams
It’s Day 29 of Gratitude November and today’s prompt from Positively Present is Dreams. 2019 has been a wild ride. I have experienced a lot of things that I couldn’t have dreamt of, at least not so soon. From my face and name being on a huge banner on a college gate (see the pic…
Gratitude #28- Family
The prompt for Day 28 in the ongoing 30 Days of Gratitude challenge is Family, and today’s post is all photos (some of my favourites).
Gratitude #27- Merriment
I didn’t know what to write on Merriment yesterday. Full disclosure: I was also immersed in an amazing book and wasn’t very motivated to write a blog post on a prompt that wasn’t very easy. Also, I was waiting to be done with the book and then write this post for another (interesting) reason. So,…
A Rain of Moments 