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BOOK REVIEW: Origami Birds by Tanya Jain

Origami Birds is a collection of forty-four poems written by Tanya Jain. In order to reach a reader’s heart these poems do cover a lot of topics that some of them might be considered sensitive but then I guess poetry is a way of expressing one’s feelings and a way for those who read them to share those expressions and feel a warmth in their heart too. It works both ways.   The title of this collection is rightly justified. When I received, I was curious about it and found a satisfactory verse that introduced me to it at the...

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BOOK REVIEW: My Jiffies by Priyanka Sharma Kaintura

Pages: 252, Paperback Published: 2017, Notion Press Cover Rating: 3/5 My Jiffies by Priyanka Sharma Kaintura is an exceptional book full of emotions and emphasises enough on reality. It is a collection where a reader has a glimpse of the writer’s beautiful imagination. The novel is not a traditional short story collection. I am surprised to find that out and really enjoyed this new form of collecting one’s writing.

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GUEST POST: Joanna Paterson

My two books of short stories, “The Old Turk and Other Tales” and “Through the Mirror”, examine that tricky balance between experience and the spiritual world that anyone—and the author—would encounter or like to encounter. There are realms which take us beyond ourselves—and I like to explore them. Short stories should stimulate thinking—they are always potentially true. So many of them lose themselves in the usual earthbound stories about romance and the twists and turns of people in love, but I tried to go beyond those confines to involve spiritual worlds. The short stories I wrote are phantastic in the...

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POETRY- The Voyage of Oblivion

And who has seen the moon Will see the dawn too, soon But what I cannot promise Is the sun at noon.   It is the Isle of mystery Where you have been dumped And duped by the whole humanity Relentlessly forgotten Left all by yourself.   In other sense you are free Fromm all those norms and taboo From every injustice and corruption That you were forcefully made part of Without a standing ovation.   You can take of the self There is water and air and peace Nothing else that you need While you build the ship for...

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Poetry- Wraith of Myself

In a distance I can hear a howl With the fall of the rain, howl is supported Tonight is a lonely night And he stands beside me like a ghost Not listening to what I hear, melonchically.   Under the terrible light I cannot see somebody else It’s all misty there Until the mist Itself tends to takes a shape The shape of myself.   At that troubled end I try to get adjacent I see smoke ash arranged in a motif Later on the ashes gather in the shape The shape of myself.

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Book List / Books

January- The Monthly Recap

This post is all about what was posted this month on Confessions of a Readaholic. BOOK REVIEWS posted this month:                     

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Books / Reviews

Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams and Other Prose Writings by Sylvia Plath

Being endured by an obsession with Sylvia Plath, I had waited too long to get my hands on this book. This is book is interesting for a multitude of reasons. The main reason being it’s Sylvia Plath’s proses, not poems. Previously, I had read The Bell Jar and her Journals, and certainly I was more fascinated by her journals rather her only novel. This collection of her proses, short stories and a few pieces from Cambridge notes which were sad but also enthralling, written in time and some published here and there while others not, starts with a Ted Hughes introduction.

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The College Window

The glimmer of the evening rays Heavy sun of summer, sleepy, Goes past me up the college Wall. Below, in the lawn Insufficient grass, with a rose Standing in the middle, assisted by a hundred thorns. Beyond the lawn, adjoins a pavement; rough and soothe On which passes the world with shadows down at their feet, Going left and right.

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What to learn from Dante’s Inferno?

Dante’s Inferno offers a great amount of lessons that are considered to be moral and necessary. Born in Florence to a noble family, and ended up spending almost half of his life in exile Dante presents The Divine Comedy which is believed an epic, with various moral lessons and taking a reader’s conscience in to his grateful imagination that is altogether a different world from what we are living and it’s basis are the same moral values we believe in. In the review, I talked about how iconic it is that a piece of literature like Dante’s can survive almost 700 years and reaching...

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Ten Poetry Books to Read LIST

Poetry is an essential part of human life. It’s a combination words in rhythm and we can find rhythm in almost anything we want. These rhythmic descriptions are written in form of poetry. The way a poem soothes human mind, nothing can. Thus, list some poetry books that reflect my personal taste. The Rime of Ancient Mariner by Samuel T. Coleridge A lyrical ballad, and one of the longest major poem in English. It relates the events experienced by a mariner who has returned from a long sea voyage. Coleridge  uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of...

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