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About the Author:   Salini Vineeth is a Kindle author who has published two of her books on Amazon Kindle. Her first book was Magic Square while her second book is Hampi: History and Architecture . You can follow her on amazon by clicking the link here . About the Book:  Magic Square is a Novella which is a long short story or a short novel. It is a story about a Ph.D. scholar named Amudha who discovers a Mathematics book which contains all her research questions and their answers written by someone. It is along with the backing up of her fellow researcher named Dheeraj, that she sets out to find the owner of the Mathematics book. The only clue which helps her to track the owner is a Tamil poem which is written on the last page of the book by the owner. The story describes her journey towards finding the owner named L V Sreenivasan. The story ends on a happy note where Amudha finally discovers the reality of the owner and alters her life decisions by being inspired from th

Book Review: All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother by Danielle Teller About the Author:  Danielle Teller is an author who published All the Ever Afters as her first novel in May, 2018 while pursuing her childhood dream of being a writer. She has been a medical trainee and faculty and has also been a part of a medical research at University of Pittsburgh and Harvard University. She has also published her second book- Sacred Cows: The TruthAbout Marriage and Divorce in 2018 itself. You can check out her website here . About the Book:  All The Ever Afters by Danielle Teller has been published by HarperCollins Publishers and is an unusual point of view of the famous fairy tale Cinderella and has been told in the words of Cinderella’s cruel stepmother Agnes. We all have read the famous fairy tale as a child or have definitely watched the various cartoon movies and series made on the famous story. This book though, tells the same story from

Book Review: Neverfound Land by Durriya Kapasi (Part II of the Djinn Series) About the author:  Durriya Kapasi is an author based in Udaipur who has published two books till date with this being her second book. She is a cancer survivor and now contributes in encouraging other cancer patients. She is also a creative writing teacher. She is a strong woman who has been through a lot but has never given up on her passion for writing. You can check her website by clicking the link here . About the book:  Neverfound Land is the second book in the Djinn series which released a week ago on 1st December, 2018. The first book of the series was Once Upon a Genie and you can check its review in my last blog post . Neverfound Land deals with the story in furtherance of the love story of Daisy and the genie named Khalil which was built in the first book of the series. The second part of the series deals with story of their child, Solomon who is a human and a genie hybrid. How

Book Review: Once Upon a Genie by Durriya Kapasai (Part I of the Djinn Series)   About the Author: Durriya Kapasi is a wonderful writer based in Udaipur and Once Upon a Genie is her first book. She is one of the strongest women I have ever come across who fought cancer and who never gave up on her passion for writing. You can check out her website by clicking on the link here and can also check out her amazing journey as covered by YouStory last year by clicking the link here . About the Book:  Once Upon a Genie is the first book written by the author and has been a bestseller in the year 2017 when it was first published by Half Baked Beans . It is a story about a girl named Daisy who is left with a genie in a bottle by her grandmother when she dies. It is a love story of Daisy and the genie named Khalil who asks Daisy for three wishes and eventually falls in love with her. Another character which is very important to the story is Darren who is Daisy’s friend and is a

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?” – Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Harry Potter is something which is really really close to my heart. The books and the movies, both have a special place in my life. As far as the books are concerned, I owe my reading habit to the Harry Potter books. I’ve watched the Harry Potter movies as a kid but I finally read the books three years ago when I was in my first year of college. I’ve been reading books since I was in eighth standard but reading Harry Potter was an experience which made me fall for the beauty of the books. Since then, I’ve read the whole series of books two times and I am crazy about Harry Potter. I claim to be a Potterhead and I can write paragraphs and paragraphs about how special the Harry Potter books are to me. Because of being a crazy fan, I possess quite a nice collection of Harry Potter related stuff. Though I want to increase my Harry Potter ar

About the Author:  Rohinton Mistry is an Indian born Canadian writer and novelist who belonged to a Parsi family in Bombay and immigrated to Toronto in 1975. While studying in Toronto, he published two short stories in a Canadian Magazine for which he won a number of awards. He went forward and published his first book- Tales from Firozsha Baag in 1987. Since then, Rohinton Mistry has been a successful novelist who is known for his famous works like A Fine Balance , Family Matters , etc. and has also won a number of awards for the same. About the Book:  Tales from Firozsha Baag is a collection of eleven short stories with all the stories centred around the lives of the people living at Firozsha Baag, which is a building located in Mumbai near the Chaupati Beach and is dominated by Parsis. The building consists of three blocks, namely- A, B and C and all these eleven stories are inspired from the lives of the people and families living in these blocks. All the character

Since the time I started reading, I’ve read quite a large number of books and many of them have been books written by Indian authors. When I pick up a book to read, the only thing which I pay attention to is that whether the book sounds interesting to me. I am not someone who is much into reading famous books and that is why there are many famous books written by Indian authors which I still haven’t read. This list of books which are written by Indian authors and which I absolutely loved is not any genre specific. Though, you guys may find out that maximum of these books are based on Indian mythology since it’s a genre which interests me a lot and it gives me a reason to pick up books written by Indian authors. So here is the list of books by Indian authors which I loved and which I would definitely recommend you guys to read! Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni So this is a book which I read around two years back and I found it to be really beautiful. I

About the Author: Saadat Hasan Manto was born in 1912 in Ludhiana and was a famous story teller, play writer and essay writer. He was famous for his stories written about the scenario which prevailed during the period of Independence and was tried for obscenity several times before and after Independence. His stories were written in Urdu and translated in many other languages. He is considered as one of the best Urdu writers and I think it is a fact nobody can disagree to. About the Book:  The book, Manto Ki Badnaam Kahaniyan is a book which is a collection of thirteen short and most famous stories written by Saadat Hasan Manto. It consists of all the stories the writer was tried for during the time of Independence. It is a collection of short stories which has been compiled by Varsha Agarwal. Through his stories, the writer has addressed important issues which were not talked about at that time. People felt that talking about issues such as prostitution, impotency, p

REVIEW: THE SURFACE BREAKS- A REIMAGINING OF THE LITTLE MERMAID About the Author:   Louise O’Neill is an Irish writer. She is generally famous for writing young adult novels. She has written five books till date and her first book was published in 2014. She has also won a number of awards and is known to focus on feminist issues through her stories. The Surface Breaks is the fifth and the latest book written by the author and I have no doubt in accepting the fact that her way of writing is just wonderful. About the Book: The Surface Breaks is a reimagining of the book- The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and has been published in 2018 itself. It’s a more feminist retelling of the famous fairy tale. It’s the story of the mermaid princess named Gaia who lives in the water kingdom in the Atlantic Ocean. She is described as a mermaid who suffers under the rule of her father and is subjected to a number of rules and regulations just because of being a female.

Review: 16 th National Book Fair, Lucknow About the Fair:  The National Book Fair is organised every year in Lucknow, UP for a period of ten days during September end. This is the 16 th year in a row when this fair has been organised. It started on 28 th September and has been organised by Mr. Manoj Chandel this time. This year, the Book Fair is dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi on account of his 150 th birth anniversary, former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and poet Gopal Das Neeraj. Special book stalls have been set up which offer books on the lives of these people. The Book Fair consists of a number of book stalls which offer first hand as well as second hand books at minimal prices. You get a huge discount on books and can buy a book even for fifty rupees. Apart from book stalls, quite a number of stalls are set up which offer stationery, jewellery, food, etc. at very low prices. Many shows and competitions are also taking place daily at the Book Fair and so yo

BOOK REVIEW: DAUGHTERS OF ARABIA BY JEAN SASSON (SECOND PART OF THE PRINCESS TRILOGY) About the Author:  Jean Sasson is an American writer who is famous for her books written on the lives of women in the Middle East. She travelled to Saudi Arabia in 1978 where she met many women whose lives inspired her to write books about them. As I’ve mentioned a lot of times in my blog posts and in the book reviews on my Instagram feed, Jean Sasson is one of my favourite authors and this is the fifth book I read written by the author. She writes such amazing and inspiring books and her books should definitely be read by everyone. You can check out her website by clicking the link here . About the Book:  Daughters of Arabia is the second book written by Jean Sasson in the series of The Princess Trilogy which describes the life of Princess Sultana who was one of the many princesses of the royal family of Saudi Arabia. You can check out the review of the first part of the series,

About The Big Book Box:  The Big Book Box is a website which offers a fun reading experience for all the readers out there in India. It offers a book subscription box in which a reader receives some books and other products which are definitely a treat for people who are into reading. They provide a theme for every month and the box of each month is designed around that theme. The Big Book Box provides for different kind of boxes, namely The Frappe Box, The Espresso Box, The Cappuccino Box and The Café Mocha Box which differ in terms of how many books and items you’ll receive in a box and also in terms of the price of the box. The booking of The Big Book Box is generally available for one and a half months after the theme of a particular month is revealed. You receive the box after a month or two after ordering since they start putting together the boxes of a particular month only after all the orders are received. The books and some of the items which will be available in a m