My Journey to Becoming A Writer – Paul C. Thornton
“You’ll be dead in six months.” It was May 29, 1985. Those words started me on the path to become a writer. I just didn’t know it at the time. When I wrote my first book, a memoir intriguingly titled…
Top 10 Indie Books for Indie April!
Of late I have been spending a lot of time on Twitter. No, no, I am not wasting my time reading tweets with infuriating tags like “Women Are Trash” and bashing every single one of them for posting such nonsense…
Top 10 Fictional Characters I Love!
Have you ever read a book only to realize that you did not want that book to end because you feel strongly for the character/s in it? This happens to me a lot! Many a times, I fall in love…
Authors – Why We Love To Hate Them!
Wallace Stevens once said, ‘As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.’ A few weeks back I shared a post where I asked if we as readers were being too critical of the successful authors whom everyone loves…
Book Spine Poetry
Here’s an idea, raid your bookshelves for interesting titles and create poetry using just the book titles. I have opted to use the titles of four books, one of which I am currently reading and the other three are in…
Top 10 Books I am reading!
OK, you already know that I am taking part in a reading challenge this year and you also know that my target is 25 books from 25 different categories. I figured that’s the best I can do given my crazy…
2016 Reading Challenge
I love reading, that’s no secret. But I have never really been part of any serious reading challenges. Thus, I decided that this year I should be part of a proper reading challenge. I signed up to my Goodreads account…
Top 10 Quotes from Books I love!
In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “That Stings!.” Franz Kafka said, “We ought to read only books that bite and sting us.” Now, the problem with me is that every book I read bites and stings me in…