book blog by Heena Rathore-Pardeshi | Of Whiskers And Words
Hello dear readers,
I’ve been MIA from last two weeks as I was busy with V’s birthday preps, and now I’m gonna be busy with my own b’day! So please be patient and hold your horses for another week as soon I’ll be back with a lot of book reviews (once I get free from all the celebrations…) Till then I wish you all Merry Christmas!
Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve your vocabulary by learning new words every week.
If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on my WOW post (like this one.)
Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve your vocabulary by learning new words every week. 
If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on my WOW post (like this one.)
Guest post by R. M. Ridley, the author of Tomorrow Wendell.
Hello dear readers! Please welcome my first Guest-Blogger, Mr. R. M. Ridley: Writer of Fantasy and Horror and the author of Tomorrow Wendell.
A couple of months ago, through my blog The Reading Bud, I had the pleasure of reading his book and I was totally spellbound by it’s fascinating plot.
Visit his blogCreativity From Chaos to know more about him.
Presenting R. M. Ridley…
When Heena asked me to do a guest blog post I was honored, delighted, and completely at a loss. What did I know about writing? What made me an expert in any way? How could I claim to hold profound knowledge previously untold?
The answer is that I don’t.
What I do have is a smattering of experience backed up by a lot of support. And maybe that is the key. Maybe that is what I should share—support.
With the help of McKeena…
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Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve your vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on my WOW post (like this one.)
My Author Blog
Hi guys!
My name is Heena Rathore P. and I’m a writer in progress. This is my 3rd blog and I hope that all the readers of my other two blogs as well as the new readers have a great time browsing though this blog.
I blog at The Reading Bud, which is a book blog.
I’m presently working on my first novel (contemporary romance) and in the process I’m getting to learn a lot of things which I’d love to share with my readers and fellow bloggers!
I hope you have a great week!
Regards
Heena Rathore P.
(or as most of you know, The Reading Bud!)
Hi folks! Like most of the bloggers, I love participating in memes and prompts related to books and blogging. My favorite one being Top Ten Tuesdays! I’ve also decided to create a small weekly meme named Word Of The Week.
I know how much vocabulary means to each and everyone in the blogosphere. Whether you are a writer or not, you still need a pretty well developed vocab in order to express yourself perfectly. I’m a fan of fancy words and I try to keep up with the latest slang. Being a book-blogger and an avid reader I come across atleast dozens of new words every week. I note them down in my book (it’s my personal vocab builder), but it is quite hard to remember them all until I start using them often. So as a solution to this problem, I’m starting this meme ‘Word of the Week‘ (WOW) in which one can share stuff about “one” word per week.
Basically, it’s a lax version of NaNoWriMo for book bloggers. The author at Book Bumblings created prompts for each day, discussing different topics around books, blogging, and books + blogging. Visit here to know more about this prompt.
Week #1
1 – History of Your Blog – Tell us how you got started! When did you start your blog? Why? What have been some of your trials and tribulations? How many pigs did you have to sacrifice to get people to see your Facebook posts?
I’ve always been an avid reader. Call me crazy, but I’ve always been attracted to ‘something’, but never was I ever able to point out exactly what it was. I used to have this undeniable urge to discuss a book that just read with anyone who’s read it. Once I spent 2 hours talking to my cousin about ASOIAF (he’s the one who actually introduced me to the series.) We debated like cats and dogs and it really gave me a kick. Anyone who knows me well knows that I’m really opinionated and well, that was where I thought that reviewing will be good for me.
My Guest-Post on Chesapeake Films about How Stories Changed My Life.
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by the awesome authors of The Broke and the Bookish.
Today’s topic is:
Whenever I sit down to review a book, all the things that I wanna say about the book instantly floods my mind and sometimes I see that I’ve mistakenly forgotten to write about 1-2 points. That’s the reason I broke my review in 3 categories- Positives, Negatives and Conclusion. But from last month or so I’m feeling like this is also not enough. So, after considering a lot of options I’ve come to a conclusion to change my entire review criteria.
From now on I’m gonna break down my reviews in 8 categories so that I don’t miss out on any point. In these 8 points I’m gonna include Blurb and Cover art as well cause I think that these are the 2 things that draws the readers attention to the books and no one ever really talks about them in reviews. I think that these are also important enough to comment on. The categories in which I’m gonna break down my review are as following:
I’m having a great feeling now that I’ve made it official. The only concern is that I’ll have to review the old titles again in this format (but that can wait, right!)
I’d love to hear what you think about my new format. Fell free to share what’s on your mind 🙂
Have a great day 😀
Finally after giving it a lot of thought, I’ve decided to participate in NaNoWriMo, after all it’s about having fun and interacting with other authors, and yea… writing (a lot!)
This will be my first time participating in a writing competition, except for a few I took part in when I was in school. I’m really nervous as I’ve just started writing and that too I write around 300-500 words per day, so this is going to be huge. I’m gonna try and write atleast 1500 words per day (pssst…. like that’s easy) and I’m just gonna make sure that atleast by the end of November I have a solid plot and strong characters.
I’m sure that you guys might also be participating. My profile name is Heena Rathore P. and the link to my NaNoWriMo profile is here. I’d love to be your writing buddy… the more we are the better! Please leave your profile links or names in the comments section and I’ll be happy to add you 🙂
A quick update on RMFAO Buddy-Read: Me and my friends (11 people) will be starting with Pet Sematary today. I’ll be posting my progress and few discussions here weekly or so. If you wanna join our buddy-read, drop in at RMFAO and just introduce yourself at the discussion board.
Hey guys…
I have a very happy post to share with all you lovely people today! I’ve got my Note-4, Charcoal Black!
Since the time I got my first Note, I’ve been a huge fan of Samsung phones (yes, I like them even more than iPhones!) I love the easy interface of Notes and the unlimited access to all the apps you can possibly imagine (thanks to android!) I love everything about them, right from the feel of the phone to the looks, they are just brilliant!
Last week I saw the video launch of Note-4 and since then I haven’t been able to sleep (you can watch it here.) I love Note-2 but I didn’t like the design of Note 3 so I passed on the chance to get it. But Note-4 is like perfection redefined! The brilliant display and the unbelievably smooth touch are just amazeballs! The front and back camera is pretty awesome and I absolutely fell in love with it that day when I first saw it in that video.
Vishal knows how obsessed I can get when it comes to gadgets (being a girl doesn’t mean I can’t obsess over gadgets!) and he really understands my love for technology. I knew that my behaviour will lead him to buy this baby for me but I thought I’ll get it as my birthday present in December. What I didn’t know was that Vishal knows me so well that he already booked Note-4 just one day after it’s release in India, and trust you me, he totally took me by surprise when he took me to the Samsung Store today and started talking to the guy about our product! I really got hysterical and when I realised that he was talking about my phone I literally burst into tears! OMG it was such a precious moment!
But in no time I wiped my tears, hugged and kissed him and then jumped to the Note 4 kept for display. I was playing around with it the entire time till we got ours. Then we just rushed home and I cried some more (God… I was so overwhelmed!) and then I did a long happy dance, which I’m sure was a treat for Vishal! lol!
I was glued to it the entire evening and right now I’m writing this post on my Note-4 itself! I’m really, really happy and here’s my first Note-4 Selfie:
Thanks for reading the post and being a part of my happiest day!
PS: As promised in the post L’ORÉAL’s Medium-Brown it is!, you can see the hair colour I was talking about in the above picture! 😀
I hope you all have a great day ahead!
Ciao 🙂
My guest post on Thoughtful Minds United.
How to Conquer Writer’s Block!
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
Hey guys!
I’ve been planning on getting a very particular look for my hair in terms of colour, and finally I’ve figured out (on my own!) how to get it. My natural hair colour is Dark-Brown, something like chocolate-fudge, with just the tinniest hints of a lighter shade of brown. Awesome right! But as always I’m not satisfied with the colour, so I keep on changing it 🙂
Last year I got this cool shade of Black with hints of cherry red, Garnier’s Black-Cherry. God… how much I loved flaunting my hair with those beautiful hints of cherry-red! It was amazing. I actually thought I’ll stick to that colour for my entire life! But those of you who know me well enough are probably laughing right now, cauz they now that I have a very fickle mind! Yes… So this year for my “ultimate look” I’ve decided to go L’ORÉAL’s Medium-Brown and in January’15 I’ll colour my hair L’ORÉAL’s Light-Brown. Then I’ll get low-lights of Medium and Dark Brown! It’s gonna look fabulous! I can see it clearly… Beautiful Light-Brown Hair with undertones of Dark and Medium Brown! Perrrrrrfect! 😀 (dreamy eyed)
So I’m done with the first step. I’ve coloured my hair Medium Brown and for now I’ll be happy flaunting my long brown layers till January! Probably I’ll click a few pics tomorrow. I’ll sure as hell share them with you guys 🙂
Have a great week ahead!
Ciao 🙂
You’ve gotta watch this!
PS: I guess the video won’t play for some reason! Please visit the original post and watch it over there. It’s really awesome!
Um, so, this is awesome. It is my new theme song! I really have nothing more to add. Just watch it. I loved it!
Hi friends!
I’ve created my first group on Goodreads: RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off). Isn’t the name amazeballs!
I’m really, really excited and would love to invite you all to join it. I’m planning to have a lot of buddy-reads and a hell loads of Read-a-Thons! I’ll be posting about them here, on The Reading Bud as well so that whoever is not on Goodreads (which I highly doubt!) won’t miss out on anything fun.
Please feel free to share with me any ideas you have that can the RMFAO more fun. I’m really happy and would love it if you can be a part of my group 🙂
Have a a great day 😀
Hi guys!
I haven’t been active from past 10 days as I was down with fever and allergic cough. Vishal is still recovering from the viral he caught, and so am I 😐
The last 2 weeks of illness have given me enough time to rethink about what I really wanna do and more importantly how I’m gonna do it. From last 2 months I was trying to find BA in English course in Switzerland but it seems there are only 2-3 colleges that have English as a medium of communication and none that has a course that I’m looking for! So finally I’ve decided to complete my degree in Pune, India only.
In the last week I collected all the information I needed to make up my mind and guess what, I’ll get to learn German as well for 3 years in the course that Pune University offers. I really can’t ask for anything more. They have a decent syllabus and the University is internationally recognised. Hopefully I’ll try and get admission by the end of this month for FYBA this year itself.
I’m really, really excited and at the same time extremely nervous as I’ll be going to college after 4 years. Vishal is such a sweetheart and is immensely supportive. Even he thinks I need time to sort out my carrier and life before shifting to Europe.
My intuition is giving me a very clear thumbs up, so I guess I’ll be going ahead with this decision 🙂
This is a single post for all the awards I’ve been nominated for during my 7 months of blogging history.
Thanks a lot to all of you for all the love and appreciation!
As the criteria for all the awards is different, I’m answering some questions and listing 7 facts about myself. You can also read the separate posts for Liebster Award and Most Influential Blogger Award.
My 20 minutes meditation ritual. It calms and prepares my mind for the rest of the day.
I’m a day person, to be exact, I’m a early morning person. I love to have some alone time!
It was just a random thought, but it seems to have changed my life completely.
Really? I-phone 6….psssstt….
Flowers (lilies and tulips)
Book Review: Lord Of The Flies
2 years back for my brother on Rakhi.
Anything out of the following:
Hell loads of Book Reviews and may be a book or two written by me!
Read “7 facts about me” in my next post!
Ciao!
Hey everyone!
We went to an amazing Travel Fest on Sunday and had an amazing day there inquiring and planning travel to various places we had in mind for the next year, including, Rann Of Kutch, Himalayas of Jammu & Kashmir, Nepal, Andaman and Nicobar and of-course, Europe.
To end the perfect we went out for dinner at our favourite restaurant and Vishal surprised me with a bunch of light pink roses. They were so adorable and smelled so good that I was totally mesmerised by them. It’s a big deal for me as I’m not a rose-lover! Vishal gets me only out-of-the-world beautiful roses (Last to last time he got me light blue ones! He’s so thoughtful, I really love him!)
I absolutely love flowers and it really breaks my heart to throw them away after a while
Hi everyone!
I changed my blog’s look again! lol! It’s gets really confusing whenever I try to freshen up TRB’s look. There are so many great themes, but the only thing that stops me is my choosy attitude.
I’m thinking of buying a theme but I have no clear idea what it should look like. That’s the reason I keep changing the blog design. I know, it can be a bit irritating to visit TRB in a week and find the entire look changed. But please bare with me for some more time as I’m getting very close to the permanent look for TRB.
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by the awesome authors of The Broke and the Bookish.
Here’s my list…
Share your list aswell…
“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
Stephen King
Hello friends, this week’s prompt is Lemon. And the theme is ‘text and type’. As I love sketching textures, I decided to do a simple piece for my first post. I haven’t even doodled since December’13 and so this is more like a warm-up. I hope you’ll like my work and do not forget to share yours with me.
Thanks Spoonflower for making me get off my ass and start drawing 🙂
Have a great day!
Hello friends and bloggers! Yesterday was Raksha Bandhan but I spent most of my day sleeping as I had a severe headache. I was feeling a bit low (God knows why!) so I thought of doing something special for myself (Yes, I do believe in keeping myself happy.) That’s why today I went ahead and dug in the blogs that I truly adore and through and through I came across a new blog Spoonflower. It’s a creative blog for people who adore art. The folks at Spoonflower host a creative challenge called SpoonChallenge: A Month Of Drawing. This challenge is super fun as the folks at spoonflower gives the topics and the participants are supposed to draw that, in any interpreted form.
Anyone who reads my blog knows that I love drawing (if not, you can read about it here: Rediscovering My Love Of Drawing). I’m not a pro in drawing but some of the sketches really inspired me. And after a lot of struggle I’m finally over “what others will say about my drawing!” So I’m taking part in this beautiful challenge starting tomorrow. I’ll be posting my drawing here and I really hope that you all like them. I’m taking part in this challenge for fun and because sketching is my way of calming my mind.
If you also love doodling then join me in this fun challenge.
If you also participate, don’t forget to share it with me and also I’d love to see your drawings, so share the links to your posts in the comments section 🙂
Have a great day!
1. Dark Child (Covens Rising) Episode #1 by Adina West
2. Dark Child (Covens Rising) Episode #2 by Adina West
3. Amity by Micol Ostow
4. Hold On Tight by Serena Bell
5. Travel Glasses by Chess Desalls
6. Hush by Stacey R. Campbell
7. Heart Of Dread: Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz & Michael Johnston
8. A Myth To The Night by Cora Choi
9. Darkness by Erin Eveland
1. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Note: I came across the new editions of HP series and I loved the new book covers and that got me to buy the first 2 books. The covers are really cute!
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Share your thoughts as well in the comments section below!
Musing Mondays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading.
With all the review requested books piling up on my virtual-shelf, I’m really not getting time to read the books that I’ve issued from my library. I’m constantly trying to have a strict schedule for each and every book, but with Rakshabandhan (Rakhi) on 10th August, I’m failing to do so. Though I want to read as much as I could, I’m still looking forward to 10th August as my family will be coming over to celebrate Rakhi in Pune. I’m hoping with all the cleaning and preparations, I’ll be able to make enough time for reading and reviewing the books I’ve already got my hands on.
To be honest, I love being busy, and being busy with reviewing books is really a dream come true!
The Reading Bud 