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2016-12-23 02:56
Those of you who are reading me for quite some time know that I am a big fan of Michael Crichton. That man was brilliant with his pen and to this day whenever I think that he is dead, I feel… Read More
2016-12-22 22:09
Arghhh… Can I please know if I am sane? Please post below if you have had a love hate relationship with a book recently and hung over the fact that you like it one minute but then whe… Read More
2016-12-21 21:52
The Luminaries is a brilliantly written book by Eleanor Catton. Her language and its usage is artfully crafted. Then there are streaks of genius and insight. There are nearly 800 plus p… Read More
2016-12-19 06:30
Sometimes, whims and fancies lead the Alice down wonderful paths. I had heard of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in passing many times and it just somehow clicked when I saw it on a deal… Read More
2016-12-16 19:42
What a title! Just looking at it got me so excited and I really wanted to read J.K Rowling AKA Robert Galbraith’s new book. It starts of nostalgically reminding me of Sherlock Holmes… Read More
2016-12-15 18:34
I find myself coming back to the mystery thriller genre subconsciously every time I think I should read something else. I know if the there is a thread being spun that is logical, there… Read More
2016-10-19 16:04
By ZAA beauty in dying
Drying up,dehydrating and withering
We leave and lie in our flaming graves
We rustle, moans in the breeze
The summer passed too soon
Now we lay on the ground which we… Read More
2016-10-02 13:31
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2016-10-01 21:47
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2016-09-30 21:44
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2016-09-29 17:05
SPRING DELUSIONS: Chaotic Poems of Despair and Blooming Hope
Words are our only tools to express the physicality of the chaos in our minds.
It is tedious and painstaking process to cre… Read More
2016-09-23 14:23
Art by ZahraThe end has begun and turns its own tune
Melancholy brass, clinking scores, rankling reruns
Summer has come to an end, muted laughter, glistening windows,
Summer has come to end… Read More
2016-09-22 14:12
Art by ZAThe first ochre fell floating by
Announcing the end of summer
It echoed a goodbye ma cherie
Tata swings and flowers
I am off to die a little now Read More
2016-09-21 00:01
My very first book Spring Delusions, is now published on Amazon! This has been such a tedious and nerve wrecking journey that I have been on an edge for the past month. It is really difficul… Read More
2016-09-20 20:54
Art by ZAMy questions turned slowly dull
Met by answers that did not fullfil
My thirst, nor could I, in willful
Consent to churn your skillful
Lies, to dreams of wistful
Satiation this time… Read More
2016-09-15 18:37
What would Keats have said
If he could tweet and post
Followers, friends, fans and freaks
Of moaning and groaning, rqmblings unleashed…
Would all this deconstruction
That mess
These… Read More
2016-09-09 13:00
When all turns to gold
Preparing for the cold
We wish we weren’t old
To the pain we mold.For my husband who wants rhyming poetry Read More
2016-09-08 19:00
Michael Crichton has been dead for nearly 8 years. I have wallowed many times that I did not read him until nearly 7 years ago although who amongst the living has not heard of Jurassic Park?… Read More
2016-09-08 14:00
Image by Zahra Ammar
The memories these waves carry
Shall spread the moments far apart
The laughter we shared mingled
With good bye tears Read More
2016-09-07 13:30
Summer was the time for forgetting
Every stroke of the hand, his strand
flew away too soon in noon
The warmth in descent _ in torment
Senses raw now return as they discern
…summer dre… Read More
2016-09-06 06:58
Mirror Mirror on the wall
If I stare into you for long
Am I vain?
Mirror Read More
2016-09-06 06:31
2016-09-01 20:00
Like a junkie on a downward spiral, I can not stop listening to Michael Connelly. He writes in clean precision. Every word is meaningful and serves a purpose. So, when I finished with The Cr… Read More
2016-09-01 16:07
Haven’t we done this all before?
The continuous back and forth
Circling the orbits
Perfectly distant
Haven’t we done this all before?
Waiting for something to happen
Yearning fo… Read More
2016-08-31 23:43
Looking beyond
Is hard to do
Enclosed and enslaved
In my reverie
Closed eyes triumphant.
Photochallenge with theme of Frame Read More
2016-08-26 22:49
When I read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ sometime in my early teens, I did so because I had put a list of books together that I must read before I died. There were many on that list t… Read More
2016-08-25 21:48
I think it was sometime three years ago that I happened to come across Michael Connelly (I know…where was I all this time?) and his Harry Bosch series. I thought it was pretty good an… Read More
2016-08-23 00:00
Deaf are words
to the sounds they make
If I could understand that look
The sighs and silence
Burdening symphonies
Choking similes
Simpering agonies
Sorrow would pity me
Written… Read More
2016-08-19 00:35
2016-08-16 16:30
Is My Truth – http://wp.me/pDG9J-4op Read More
2016-08-16 16:21
We book vacations and go to resorts, unwind at spas and get into the mood at coffee shops, look at pictures of cruises and check out rates for holiday packages… all an effort t… Read More
2016-08-12 19:04
2016-08-12 18:14
Splash of fluff, fuse of yoke in the basin of the sky Read More
2016-08-11 14:56
Happy 10 years to me! I have been blogging since 2006 and I have transitioned from being a giddy follower-addict blogger to a pay per post blogger, to a blogger on payroll and well, a blogge… Read More
2016-08-08 16:22
The world of Karin Slaughter is dark, gruesome and a dangerous territory to trek in. Pretty girls, far from a summer read, is the story of two sisters, torn apart by a rift, who come togethe… Read More
2016-08-04 22:45
There are some journeys that unexpectedly alter parts of a person.
There is no going back.
There is no revocation.
Watching Edie, is a shocking jolt of the depravity a person can fall to and… Read More
2016-07-27 23:31
How to Write a Chiller Thriller sounds like something like a Stephen King or Hitchcock or Poe how-to guide for writers. However, it is much more contemporary and more example based than… Read More
2016-07-19 21:40
http://www.inc.com/melanie-deziel/the-9-books-every-female-entrepreneur-should-read.html Read More
2016-07-19 07:08
Often while reading help or instruction books, one comes across lines and sentences and paragraphs full of unwanted drool. Eyes go skip- skip- skip , search for the bullet points, jump… Read More
2016-07-18 22:38
Nola Mitchell was going to make history with her flight in the fashion of Amelia Earhart but ends up crashing into history herself.
Caroline Carter’s debut novel is thrilling and has s… Read More
2016-07-09 01:24
It has been quite some time since I have thought to myself how quick I can get this over with so that I can start reading again.
I think I was around eight years old when I specifically… Read More
2016-07-02 23:39
This too shall pass…and it … did pretty quickly.
Have you ever felt the feeling of utter loss when people all around you are raving about this a particular cheese in the market… Read More
2016-06-28 21:48
What instigates a person to commit crime? What are the primal urges that leads one to rape, torture and kill?
Cassie Reynold is an assassin for the government and has a need to eradicate evi… Read More
2016-06-15 00:28
William Wordsworth was one irritated man with the fast pace of the world. That was nearly 200 years ago.
I am not sure with how much horror he would react to the world in 2016 but I c… Read More
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