Tag: #newbook

• Book Review: Do What You Love by MJ Mallon

  

  ‘Do What You Love’ by MJ Mallon is a quick read of 58 pages. It’s a sweet reminder to live life, look back to see how far you’ve come, appreciate all that’s got you this far and look forward to the future. I could read the book in an hour and a half’s time. I’m…

  Smitha V

  May 22, 2023

  Book Review

  #flashfiction, #memoir, #mjmallon, #newbook, #photography, #pleasing, #poetry, #quickread, #shortread

• Thursday Doors: Two doors, art, book review and chitchat

  

  Today, I have two doors from Melbourne that my daughter sent me for the Thursday Doors challenge that Dan hosts. The board says, ‘RMIT University’. So, I googled to find out more. The image that popped up on Google was one of a modern styled building. So this is what I got from the net-…

  Smitha V

  May 19, 2023

  Art, Experiences

  #acrylic, #Art, #beginningagain, #bookreview, #Cominghome, #creativity, #debutnovel, #gratitude, #inspiration, #life, #melbourne, #mother'sday, #nature, #newbook, #painting, #thursdaydoors

• Book Review: He, She, and it- the grammar of marriage

  

  The book is an anthology of short stories. The interesting thing about anthologies centred around a theme, in this case, ‘Marriage’, is that you get as many different perspectives on the topic as the number of participating writers. When it comes to marriage, there can be two types- a happy marriage and a sad marriage. A…

  Smitha V

  May 14, 2023

  Book Review

  #bookreview, #emotional, #fiction, #India, #life, #marriage, #newbook, #reality, #shortstories, #truth, Creative Writing

• Thankful Thursday 04.05.23: Doors and a lot more

  

  It’s been a long time since I participated in Thursday Doors- first, for the want of doors and then, for the want of time. But here I am, with doors from Morocco. My sister visited the country to rein in her birthday on the 12th of March. And I asked her for pictures of the…

  Smitha V

  May 5, 2023

  Experiences

  #blessing, #Cominghome, #friends, #gratitude, #messages, #miracle, #morocco, #newbook, #readerpics, #readers, #reading, #thankfulthursday, #thursdaydoors

• Book Review : Patna Blues by Abdullah Khan

  

  image via shutterstock After an entire month of poetry and months of working on my debut novel, I’m reading again, and I can’t tell you how wonderful it feels. Abdullah Khan is the author who wrote a blurb for my debut novel, ‘Coming Home’. When the publisher approached him, he was kind enough to agree…

  Smitha V

  May 4, 2023

  Book Review

  #abdullahkhan, #bookreview, #contemporaryfiction, #fiction, #middle-class, #muslim, #newbook, #patna, #Patnablues, #reader, #reading