March 2016 – Black marks on a page

Looking for Alaska

March 28, 2016

The danger of reading multiple books from a similar genre in a short span of time is saturation. And when many of those books are by the same author, it isn’t surprising when certain patterns start to emerge. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but when the writer is hyperly self-aware about utilising those patterns … More Looking for Alaska

If I Stay and Where She Went – Gayle Forman

March 24, 2016

Life, in my humble opinion, does come down to choices. And that is one of the main underlying themes of Gayle Forman’s If I Stay and Where She Went duology, though both deal with very different kinds of choices. The more often I write reviews, the more I realise how much I don’t really like … More If I Stay and Where She Went – Gayle Forman

Growing up and the perks of being a wallflower

March 17, 2016

This article of mine was originally posted a few years ago on a website that is no longer online. It is a sort of companion for this which I wrote for Sabotage Times (its title is misleading but that is on the then-editor not me!). So what better post to commemorate Throwback Thursday during an ongoing … More Growing up and the perks of being a wallflower

Paper towns for paper people?

March 15, 2016

Through a sort of trial and error process over the years, I have realised that one of the more reliable ways of getting myself out of a reading slump is a good book from the YA (young adult) genre. But that wasn’t what I was thinking of when I started Paper Towns which had been … More Paper towns for paper people?

Double Digits

March 10, 2016

Here is my latest flash available to read on Zero Flash. You can read the rest of this 196 words vignette at https://zeroflash.wordpress.com/stand-alone-flash-pieces/

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