Reviews & Musings

Source:  BoomTown Last weekend I completed seven years of reviewing books on this blog. I spent some time looking back and was overjoyed to see the titles which I have been able to read all through these years. The authors who have graced my blog with their thoughts in the form of guest-posts and interviews - I am so thankful to each one of them for their insights. And I am thankful to you, dear reader, for being there!

This blog, previously known as “ Reviews and Musings ” has always been my neglected child. I always put more effort behind my creative writing blog till last year when I shut it down completely. On the hindsight it wasn’t a bad decision at all. It helped me complete my own manuscript, research for the second one and finish a short story collection. It also helped me stay sane in the periods when I couldn’t write because “ not updating my blog ” was no longer killing me. Lastly, it also helped me focus on this baby of mine which was a little lost till then. It had a niche, sure, but it didn’t have a direction. 2017 was the year I gave it a concrete direction.

I know the date of the post and title suggests it is yet another year ending message but make no mistake it is not! Source: www.birthdaymessages.net

On 8th March as the world celebrated Women's Day I celebrated my first born blog 's 3rd birthday. Looking back in time as I reminisced about my journey till here I was reminded of a beautiful and unique contest being held by my wonderful friends at Indiblogeshwaris .

Exactly two years ago this blog was born - more so for my love of books and then of course gradually it went onto become my alter ego. While Memoirs of Me stood for all the good things of my life this one represented the bad things of my life. Needless to say both are immensely special to me and are my two kids that I have had.   The most wonderful feeling for a blogger is to have at least one genuine reader who is your worst critic and best appreciator. I would say I am very lucky to have found someone like that in Dumpling - my bestest friend ever. There has not been a single day when he has not written to me about my blogs, books or about what's more special to both of us - LIFE!   750 posts, 43k hits, 119 book reviews, 462 daily thoughts on living and loving, this blog surely has a long way to go ! I intended to write a letter to my blog as it's birthday gift but then today morning I woke up to see a beautiful letter in my inbox addressed to my bl...