life

  • Finding Your Next Read: Essentials and Recommendations

    Throughout my time of 12 months, as a blogger. I have discovered that there are many people who like to read. Though, there are many more who want to read, but don’t know where to start. If you are one… Continue reading

    Finding Your Next Read: Essentials and Recommendations
  • Night Light

    The night light was switched on and off on an average of 30 time a week. Making that maybe 4 times a day. Once when the family woke up. Then when the family went to sleep. And the rest two… Continue reading

    Night Light
  • The echo of Red.

    I bleed against the steady wood, Howling of my pain, A suffering spent in vain. Zeus laughs, His lofty scorn, A formation ; For the words he is yet to say. I was right to call you weak, He snorts,… Continue reading

    The echo of Red.
  • The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi

    Book Review by Janx Blurb: One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back In Mr. Hirasaka’s photography studio, in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. With a… Continue reading

    The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
  • My father loves my mother…

    My father loves my mother, And it shows, When she shows him a dress and he can’t react how she wants, So, his search history is filled with variations of, How to compliment your wife properly. My uncle loves my… Continue reading

    My father loves my mother…
  • A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945

    -Vikram Seth Analysis and Themes… -Janx 🙂 The poem relates to the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An attempt at capturing the shock, horror and gore that came over people in those sudden moments where their lives changed forever. The… Continue reading

    A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945
  • Heart /House

    I think I’ll pack my feelings, In that brown briefcase, And leave this heart behind, Because it has leakage, And the marks on the wall, Look like you, They are red, And make me want to claw my eyes out,… Continue reading

    Heart /House
  • Anne Frank analysis [first quarter]

    Important Events: The first most important event of their lives was when they got a call up for Margot (Anne’s sister) to go work in Germany on ‘July 5’. This forces them to shift to the annex before they originally… Continue reading

    Anne Frank analysis [first quarter]
  • Welcome To the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop: Book Review

    When we sit down to read, we expect some things from a book. We expect fuubutsushi throughout and characters who have sophrosyne by the end of the book. We like to have frissons by the time we are done with… Continue reading

    Welcome To the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop: Book Review
  • Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde…

    Not a book review, By Janx 🙂 I recently finished reading this amazing piece of literature, and I absolutely had to share it with you people. This book has been the death of me for around a month and if… Continue reading

    Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde…
  • Little life…

    I was 5, When my mother told me, To wear a dress, And host a tea party, I did it, And it did not suit me, So, I put on blacks and blues, But kept my pretty shoes, And hosted… Continue reading

    Little life…
  • Why I write…

    I was only seven when my mom gifted me my first novella. It was a bare 150 pages big, but for my tiny self, reading the whole book in 24 days was an amazing achievement. From then on, it was… Continue reading

    Why I write…
  • Two Worlds…

    Two worlds, That is where I live, Misery, Melancholy, Sadness and tears, Tired, Empty eyed, A depressed lover of lies, Empty hands, Stained with ink, What should be clean nails’ Filled with paint, An empty minded lust, Is this world… Continue reading

    Two Worlds…
  • Strange Birds: The Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers [by Celia C. Perez]

    Book Review by Janhavi B. Change and change makers have always been a large part of our society and its history. These change makers have changed and moulded our society into something better than before. Today I present to you… Continue reading

    Strange Birds: The Field Guide to Ruffling Feathers [by Celia C. Perez]
  • A steel blade…

    A steel blade, Short and sharp, How deep it cuts, I cannot tell, I wish I wouldn’t use it; But I have been attacked so many times, I can’t help but protect me, You’re holding me back, hurts like a… Continue reading

    A steel blade…