Hello people, I come bearing good news. I at last got my system got working again and had to completely reformat the hard drive. So I will have to catch up with all your posts and comments and I will get to that right away.
I have been hinting during the past few (or more) weeks about me attending the Dubai literature festival and I finally attended it. It was fantastic to say the least. I saw several of those awesome writers and authors.
I saw likes of Joe Hill, Anthony Horowitz, Sashi Tharoor et al and I also renewed my interest in poetry. Maybe I will write a post on them in a few days. Well, I found my new favorite spoken word artist Afra Atik and she is something.
But most of all I found my tribe of people. YES Bookworms! I loved meeting and chatting away about books and writing to many of them. One of them even found me a library that is affordable and considerably closer to my house. Yay to that!
Another thing that I loved about the festival was the number of children and teens who attended and flocked to see their favorite authors. I was kinda feeling emotional and tad overwhelmed by all their love for books. It reminded me of myself when I was kid who couldn’t wait to go home after schools just to open my books.
And all these have got the bookworm in me pumped up and I finished two books just the last week. And I promise to churn out more of those blog posts and comments hereon. And I am back on track (hopefully).
I am so so far behind on my comment365 challenge – I have visited about 28 blogs and we are on 76th day today. *ducks shamefully*
What I read
I finished two books in the last two weeks. And that makes a total of 8 books on my A – Z challenge for 2018. Check it out here
- Geography of You and Me, The by Jennifer E. Smith
- Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
And for this month’s Flyaway Friday I am not travelling far from my place but you are for sure. Yes we are gonna talk about United Arab Emirates, yay the place where I am currently put up. And I got a book worm who is an Emirati to post more about the country. So keep up guys.
I will be linking today’s post with Caffeinated reviewer’s Sunday post Meme.
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Let us talk
Are you guys mad at me? Did you miss me at all? Please please say yes. I love you all loads. How do you guys catch up with all the pending stuff. Let’s chat.
It’s good to see you back in action. I love reading and would be lost without a good book
I totally agree!
Oh no ! hard drive misshap is a pain to deal with.. hopefully nothing important got lost .. and hey, it does gives you a fairly good excuse to be behind on the 365comments challenge.. hehehe ..
Aww I love to see younglings like I was being pumped up about reading <3 and yes, I did missed you !! ((also, id wanna see that post on poetry !))
I will try to catch the 365 Challenge but only after visiting the blogs of our friends first. But someday I will.
Of course we’re not mad at you, and of course we missed you!!!! That festival sounds like the best, and those young people getting excited about books and reading brings a thug tear in my eyes.
P.S. Afra Atiq is a dope spoken word artist! I hope she punched that a-hole kid in the face. 😉
I have been stalking Afra’s performances on Youtube since I heard her first in the Litfest. And here I am for good.
I’m so glad that you’re back! I can’t wait to travel to the United Arab Emirates with you!
I missed you too. Yes, buckle up to travel to my country 😛
I haven’t been to your blog in wayyyy too long. I miss you!
Oh man, that sucks to hear about reformatting the hard drive – but at least it finally works! I’m so happy to hear all that awesome stuff about the festival 🙂
I’m curious to hear about UAE cause I know next to NOTHING about it!!
And I sooo totally miss you!
I am back <3 I am gonna start blog hopping soon too. Maybe tomorrow. We have lot of catching up tp do!
It sounds like you had a great time at the book festival – and I always feel happy to see younger people visiting book festivals and being all excited to meet an author. I cannot wait for the book fests in my city!
Happy reading and have a great week!
I want to know how Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows reads. It’s been in my to-be-read list for a while.
It was a good one and I had a hard time explaining to people who cast me dirty looks that the title was misleading (or was it?). And I will remember to post a review soon.
Hehehehehe, it’s the title that caught my eye, to be honest. About the review, please do. I will wait for it.
The book festival sounds awesome! Yay for that. And sorry to hear about the hard drive issues, although hopefully you are back up and running now. 🙂
Looks like everything is running now and hopefully it stays that way.
Yeah for getting things fixed! And the festival sounds fabulous. I too used to rush home from school as a young girl and get losy in a book:)
I had a great time reminiscing about those days when I used to do the same.
I’m excited to learn about a new place! Glad you got to go to a book festival, we don’t have any close to where I live but maybe I can work on changing that. Yay on finding a new library and meeting new bookworms. Hope you have a great week!
Yes I am super excited about the library too. I will going there this week I guess, just to scout the books!
Sure, have missed reading your posts😄 Welcome back.
Thanks Viv!