Tag: EbookCarnival

  • Life is beautiful with a seasoning of salt – Book Review

    Life is beautiful with a seasoning of salt – Book Review

    Every day we witness so many instances which are part of a story unfolding around us. It is really a difficult thing to pick those instances up and look at them as a third person and narrate a story. Storytelling is indeed a difficult task. You have to know how to build it up to give one of a kind experience to reader or listener of your story. After reading this book, I can safely and happily say Asfiya Rahman has a knack to keep you engaged in her stories.

    Life With a Pinch of Salt is her latest collection published in Blogchatter’s Ebook Carnival. I am thankful for them to put it in reader’s hands. Stories included in this very short collection are woven around tiny instances of everyday life which we all experience. This relatability made me finish this tiny collection in one sitting.

    Things which I enjoyed

    First of all, I can’t stop myself from praising the gorgeous cover design with simple salt and paper shakers. Life is really bland without seasoning of fun, quirk and bizarre. Asfiya has story for everything above and some extra. Even though stories are very short flash fictions, they are complete in itself. I am eagerly waiting for more stories from her. Hope she bring out more and more such books!

    Blurb

    Life is a wonderful gift that each one of us has been given. We often get bogged down by the mundane routine of life and the weight of our expectations and forget this. This collection of short stories and flash fiction is a small attempt to remind us that life is messy and adventurous and full of surprises.

    Life isn’t meant to be perfect, it’s meant to be lived.

    About the book

    Title: Life With a Pinch of Salt
    Author: Asfiya Rahman
    Pages: 38

    My review

    Story: 4/5
    Cover Design: 4.5/5

    Overall rating: 4.25/5

    You can grab your copy of Life With a Pinch of Saltby Asfiya Rahman here.

    Should you read it?

    I enjoyed this little book and I hope it has picked me up from my reading slump. I hope this will pick you up from yours too if you are having one.

    This is a part of Blogchatter’s Ebook Carnival. If you want more book recommendations, click here.

  • Dharma Artha Kama Moksha – Poetry by Seethalakshmi Suraj

    Dharma Artha Kama Moksha – Poetry by Seethalakshmi Suraj

    My journey in the world of poetry began quite late. I hardly enjoyed them during my school days. However, when I was in college, something came to me spontaneously and my journey started. My lines were not polished, nor they had a particular form. So I started to read about poetry. After a decade or so, I can dare to say that I write a decent poetry in Marathi with one audiobook under my belt. “चिमुकली स्वप्ने” my first and only poetry collection is available on storytel for you all to enjoy.

    However, my understanding of English poetry is that of a beginner’s level. I sometime fail to comprehend if a particular piece is a poetry or just a paragraph. I found Seethalakshmi’s “Dharma Artha Kama Moksha” in Blogchatter’s E-book librabry. This particular book is a part of their Ebook carnival where I have also put up my book ओंजळभर प्रेम.

    Who did I like this one?

    Let me tell you very frankly that I fail to understand quite a few poems in this book due to my lack of understanding. Yet there are few pieces which grabbed my attention and one of them is “I See a Monster from My Window”. I just loved the way she has created this imagery of continuously growing plastic eating monster which one day will eat us all. My most favorite lines from the poem are

    Who feeds the monster, you ask?
    Oh, to remember every name, is a task
    It’s definitely me, it’s definitely you,
    It’s our every neighbour, old & new

    I see a monster from my window | Harita (Dharma Artha Kama Moksha by Seethalakshmi)

    She has penned poems covering four aspects of human life and I am sure every poet atleast once have written about Moksh / Mukti in one form or the other. Even I couldn’t stop myself from writing

    लागे मज आस, सायुज्य मुक्तीची,
    तोड बेडी आता, कर्मचक्र… ||

    I liked the way she has designed the book. Yet only think which is missing in the copy of ebook is the cover used in other graphics. Use of the same cover would have improved the appearance a bit. I am enjoying my this learning experience and am sure people who are ahead of me on this path will enjoy this collection for sure.

    You can grab your copy of Dharma Artha Kama Moksha by Seethalakshmi here.

    This is a part of Blogchatter’s Ebook Carnival. You can read more of my book recommendations here.