From Tiger to Zeus!

My father gifted me a German Shepherd pup when I was 15 years old. I named him Tiger. He was my best bud and the best thing in my life and I was very connected to him emotionally. But after my parent’s separation, I had to leave Tiger with my dad and move to another city (it is one of the most painful things I’ve ever had to do!) I had a really tough time getting over this and swore not to get another dog until I was independent, so that no one can take him away from me ever.   Hearts 2

german-shepherdAfter my marriage to Vishal, we were busy getting settled in our new life. Also because of Vishal’s work, we had to travel a lot. So finally, after 3 years and 6 months of our marriage, everything’s into place and we are planning to get a pup. My first choice was obviously German Shepherd but Vishal, being a cat-lover who never had a dog before, thought to get a small breed pup first. So we decided to get a beagle. I was happy with beagle too, but Vishal knows me too well to get trust my fake smile. After going through Tiger’s pics on my study room’s walls he told me that we can get a German Shepherd if I want. And so, finally we are getting a German Shepherd pup 🙂

Reviewer @ JC’s Book Haven

I’m really happy to announce that I’ve joined JC’s Book Haven, a wonderful book blog run by Jaclyn Canada, as a book reviewer. I’m really looking forward to reviewing for her. As everyone knows that I love reading and reviewing, this is really huge for me.  I’ll be helping out Jaclyn with the review requests that she receives for her blog. I’ll be doing around 2-3 reviews for her blog each month and will be posting  the respective links here on TRB. Do visit them and share your thoughts. I’d love for all my readers to read my reviews there as well!

Ten Favourite TV Shows

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by the awesome authors of The Broke and the Bookish.

This week’s topic:

Ten Favourite TV Shows:

1. Friends

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Strawberry Shortcake @ The Baking Bud

Strawberry Shortcake

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Strawberry Shortcake @ The Baking Bud

Read the complete article with recipe here.

Ten Things I Like/Dislike On The Book Covers

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by the awesome authors of The Broke and the Bookish.   top-ten-tuesday   Following are the things I like/dislike on the book covers:

Award: Most Influential Blogger

This one’s long overdue. I would like to thank Petrel of Dear Kitty, Some Blog for nominating my blog for Most Influential Blogger Award.

If you haven’t already, please check out her blog, I’m quitesure you’ll love it.

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Here are the guidelines for acceptance – really very straightforward.

Award: Most Influential Blogger

This one’s long overdue. I would like to thank Petrel of Dear Kitty, Some Blog for nominating my blog for Most Influential Blogger Award.

If you haven’t already, please check out her blog, I’m quitesure you’ll love it.

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Here are the guidelines for acceptance – really very straightforward.

Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far This Year

Hi, everyone! Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! This weekly event is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far This Year.

Top Ten Books I’ve Read So Far This Year

1. A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin

ADWD UK

 

Chocolate Chip Cookies @ The Baking Bud

 Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Choco-Chip Cookies

For the recipe click here–> http://thebakingbud.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/chocolate-chip-cookies/

Summer Library Challenge: Library Survey

Welcome to the first week of the Summer Library Challenge! Check out the Summer Library Challenge page for all details of this awesome event.

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Library Survey

1. What’s the name of your library and how close is it to where you live?

– My library is Just Books and it has 9 branches in my city. The branch that I visit is Just Books Wanowrie. It’s less that 10 minutes away from where I stay.

Summer Library Challenge

 

Summer Reading Challenge is hosted by The Book Monsters. This challenge encourages library reading. It will run from 1st June to 31st July, 2014. There will be a lot of challenges and twitter chats and being a regular library reader I really think it’s going to be one hell of a read-a-thon. I love my library and I owe this post to it 🙂

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My Goals:

  • To read atleast 15 library books from 1st June to 31st July.
  • To review all those books on my library’s site and help them in the overall book ratings.
  • To try and get my hands on some genres I’ve never read before.
  • To visit atleast 1 event hosted by my library.

Sweet Summer Read-A-Thon

Hi guys, from June 9th – June 15th, Hannah at The Book Tower will be hosting the Sweet Summer Read-a-thon. To participate in this event all you have to do is make a post or a video saying what your goals are for the week and share your link on the sign up post over on her blog.

9-15 June’ 2014

My Goals

  • Read a classic.
  • Read 100 pages a day.
  • Review one of the books from requests sent by authors.
  • Visit a new blog everyday.

My TBR List

  • Entranced by Nora Roberts
  • Breath Of Aoles by Alan Spade (author’s review request)
  • Holding The Dream by Nora Roberts
So friends these are my goals and TBR list, feel free to share your own.
Have a great day!

TTT: Ten Books That Will Be In My Beach Bag This Summer

Hi, everyone! Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! This weekly event is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Today’s topic is Ten Books That Will Be In My Beach Bag This Summer.

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Ten Books That Will Be In My Beach Bag This Summer:

1. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green.

2. Looking For Alaska by John Green.

3. Holding The Dream By Nora Roberts.

4. Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams.

Liebster Award

I am very thankful to Aishwarya of My Kitchen Moments for nominating me for Liebster Award. As all of you are well aware, this award means a lot to any blogger. I am truly honored and very grateful! If you haven’t already, please check out her blog; I’m sure you’ll love it. I always look forward to all her delicious and mouthwatering dishes!

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For those wondering what “Liebster Award” is… Generated in Germany, this award is a beautiful way of recognizing lesser known blogs. And “Liebster” means, “dearest, beloved, sweetest, nicest, valued” etc.

The rules are simple and as follows:

  1. Thank and link back the person who presented the award to you.
  2. Have the award on your post.
  3. Answer the questions that has been asked.
  4. Award the same to up to ten other upcoming blogs.

Here are my answers :

1. Show us something you like around you or outside your place.

There are quite a lot of things that brighten my heart. Some of them are: my Arabian Jasmine Plant, Jalapeño Plant (and the cute lil’ budding Jalapeños), Palm Plants in my drawing-room, Sun-set from my balcony, etc. I’m more than delighted to share some pictures with you all 🙂

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My Arabian Jasmine Babies

Book Review: Let The Dogs Out

 

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Author: Violet's Vegan Comics
Release Date: 17 May, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 11835 KB
Print Length: 39
ASIN NO.: BOOKEXPVI4
Publisher: Violet's Vegan Comics

Summary

Musing Mondays #2

Musing Mondays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading.

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Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).

I am to receive the delivery of the 3 books I ordered on Friday, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The Fault In Our Stars and Looking For Alaska. I bought these books for 50% off in a sale on Amazon.

Friday Finds #1

Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by Should Be ReadingIt’s where you share the book titles you discovered or heard about during the past week. These can be books you were told about, books you discovered while browsing blogs/bookstores online, or books that you actually purchased. 

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My this week’s finds are three very popular YA books:

1. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Musing Mondays #1

Musing Mondays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading.

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My Musing:

I’ve been desperate to get my hands on the Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth. I’ve read hundreds of positive reviews for it and I really don’t want to be the only person on earth to have the trilogy only on the TBR list! Also I love YA

Top Ten Book Covers I’d Frame As Pieces of Art

toptentuesdayTop Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by the awesome authors of The Broke and the Bookish.

I am a sucker for amazing and cute book covers and I’ve always thought about putting them up in my study as a piece of art on the walls! Following are 10 book covers that I would love I’d to frame as pieces of art

Top Ten Book Covers I’d Frame As Pieces of Art 

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Do participate if you have some great book covers in your mind 🙂

Living in a Void #1

As a child born in a super rich family I had a very different life as one would imagine. A quick background of my family: My great-grandfather, started an arms and ammunition factory by the name Dewas Gun Caps Factory which was then run by my grand father (Hari Raj Sing Rathore, who completed his degree in law from London and then spent some time in Indian military). When I was born My father was still living his life luxuriously, spending my grand father’s money being a total spoilt brat. My mother was a simple house wife who was always worried about the future of our family’s business (and was more interested in relatives than my father and me!). My grand father loved me a lot so did my father but my mom

Earth Day

I checked out fb in the morning and realised that yesterday was Earth Day. I want to confess that I really didn’t know that it was this month. Well, now that I know when it was, I really feel that I owe our mother Earth this post (atleast)!

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I am thinking of celebrating it today. I love the idea of “days”, it really gives a reason to celebrate your liking or love for something. I was planning to get some cute ceramic pots for my plants and also a new plant or two. I have been postponing it for quite sometime now because of other commitments. But today seems to be a perfect day to do it. What better way to celebrate Earth Day than planting some plants and grooming the old ones! I am super-thrilled as it’s really making me feel good.

The Deutsch Affair: Beginning

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Well first off lets be very clear that this post is about The German Language. I’ve done my schooling from St. Mary’s Convent Sr. Sec. School (till 10th grade) and Air Force School (11th and 12th Science) but unfortunately we never had additional language classes. As a result I know only 2 languages Hindi and English (somewhat Marathi) but no other language.

Rediscovering My Love of Drawing

My love for drawing started when I was a year old. I started by scribbling on the walls and floors. As I grew I started to use drawing books, pencils, crayons, sketch pens and then finally brushes and paints. By the time I was in 5th grade, everyone used to think I’ll also be an artist like my real aunt. But as time passed studies took over the creative side of me. But still I used to draw as and when possible. I never took any classes or tuitions for it, but I drew cause I loved to.

Then years passed and at the age of 16, sadly my parents got divorced. Well for me that was the end of a lot of things I loved, drawing and sketching being one of them. I started hating drawing (may be because it was somehow related to my dad and as I was with my mom and step-father, missing him was out of question). It wasn’t like I never gave it a try, I did but my drawing started to look horrible! And I hated it.

About Me

My name is Heena Rathore P., and I’m a 23-year-old B.Com. Grad. and a blogger who loves to read. I currently live in Pune, Maharashtra (India).

Married to the love of my life and since then living my dream life (All thanks to Vishal!)

Reading is something I love since childhood. And finally I am getting all the time I need to READ 🙂

If you want to know  a little more about me, read Behind The Curtains of The Reading Bud.

I would like to mention specifically that I don’t charge for my reviews and that I am not affiliated to a publisher.

 

My Approach:

I am quite brave about my reviews, I don’t have a problem saying anything from “I just didn’t like it’, to “This book was awful”! I don’t care because it’s much more important to tell the truth about my view. Besides, I feel obligated to give an accurate review.

Genre:

I’ll review pretty much anything that is Romance, Young-Adult, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery, Crime and Philosophical except paranormal, political and erotica.

I’m exceptionally difficult to offend, and I have few scruples about what I read, so as long as the fiction falls loosely within the mentioned categories, I’ll be happy to review it.