Genre : Historical Fiction | Author : Alka Joshi (March 3, 2020) | Running Time : 10h 56m | Narrator :Sneha Mathan I began my Audibles journey with The Henna Artist, the first book of the Jaipur Trilology by author Alka Joshi . which came as a recommendation from a dear friend on a cold December morning of 2020. Hello there! Did you miss my unglamorous boring book reviews? Aha, the wait is over! Because I am back with a…
Genre : Mystery Thriller | Author : Lucy Foley (June 2, 2020) | Running Time : 10h 22m Narrators: Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens, and Rich Keeble. I am back with my third mystery thriller read of this year – The Guest List by Lucy Foley (June 2, 2020). Like my first two reads of this month, this is also my first read by this British author and I can tell you right away I…
What is your favorite memory of you reading a book? asked Rana, grabbing a Nancy Drew from the shelf. Laila was taken aback by this innocent yet thought provoking question from her 10 year old daughter. Rana was going through this phase where every other sentence coming from her began with “What is your favorite….”. “hmm.. that’s an interesting question. Let me think for a minute…” said Laila. Most days Laila would say something silly in response and Rana would…
Good afternoon! While I have a long list of things to talk about, let’s start with the book of the month! February started with Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister ( May 12, 2022). A Goodreads nominee for Best Mystery & Thriller (2022). My first by Gillian McAllister and I must say it was quite a fascinating read. Truth be told, most of my listens in the last two years have been my first time read of that particular author….
Hola readers! Let’s discuss the first book of this year- The House In The Pines by debut author Ana Reyes (2023). After catching up on Little Secrets and Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier last year I kept off from thrillers for a while. I needed a break! But boy am I glad to have started the new year with Ana Reye’s The House In The Pines! The House In The Pines spooked me out like no other story in…
This April I listened to two well known books, a historical fiction and a self help book . This was my first nonfiction audiobook or book in the longest time ever (read years). When was the last time I picked up a non fiction book over a fiction, I just can’t recollect!! I started with Kristin Hannah‘s book The Nightingale (Published 2015), a 17 hours hours read and then moved on James Clear’s instant best seller Atomic Habits (Published 2018)….
This month I caught up on two books both by the same author Jennifer Hillier – Little Secrets (2020 ) and Jar of Hearts (2018). Jar of Hearts has won the ITW Thriller Award for Best Hardcover Novel and was shortlisted for the Anthony and Macavity Awards – literary awards for mystery writers. Little Secrets made it as finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Anthony Award. Both the stories were some of my fastest listens for…
Genre : Mystery Thriller | Author : Alka Joshi (June 2021) | Running Time : 11 hrs and 8 mins Narrators: Sneha Mathan, Ariyan Kassam and Deepa Samuel Good morning beautiful people ! How is your weekend looking? For more than a week now we have been waking up to a thick fog and bitter weather. The fog lifts mid afternoon only to be back with vengeance by sunset. Yesterday though, we had a good day weatherwise. On my morning…
Genre: Historical Fiction| Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Feb 2008) | Running Time: 12 Hrs. 30 Min Narrator: Sneha Mathan Good morning! How are you folks doing today? What are you reading these days? I started the new year listening to this gem of book The Palace of illusions (2008) by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni read by Sneha Mathan. Had it not been for my friend Swati, I would have never picked up The Palace of illusions– a delightful narration of Mahabharata from…
Who doesn’t love tacos? I love love tacos and my current favorite is the Tacos Camarones . I could go on and on about tacos but I am here to talk about the book so we will save Tacos for some other time. Dragons Love Tacos is a hilarious ,delicious read aloud picture book for children between the ages of 3-5. It would make a fun read aloud book for early elementary kids too. This book was published in 2012….
A dreamer. A doer. A real life go- getter. Most people like good, but Sofia liked it better. From the creators of Iggy Peck, Architect, Rosie Revere , Engineer and Ada Twist, Scientist , comes yet another delightful gem of a picture book Sofia Valdez, Future Prez. Its the first book in the Questioneer series that has moved from STEM and highlights the importance of community building introducing the little activist Sofia Valdez. A simple rhyming story telling your child…
Time and again, you’ll find this space filled with reviews of series, books, movies through my eyes, these are the ones that caught my attention ,enough that ,I wanted to come and talk pen about them. This is my opinion, how I perceived, felt and experienced them. Strongly Today we are talking about The Undoing limited American miniseries playing on HBO Max , based on the characters and the plot line (loosely enough) from the book called “You Should Have Known”…