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Things Found In A 12 Year Old’s Room A neat and tidily made bed A metal trash can full of pencil led A map of the world and a bulletin board A violin with which you can play any chord A wardrobe filled with clothes A window where the wind blows A spacious balcony with a scenic urban view  All you can see is a road full of traffic just on the brew A door opens the world of endless wisdom An athenaeum howling to be read next to an artificial viscum An old skateboard as aged as my grandfather lies in the loft A secret stash of candy under the cot sends fragrance to waft A  large mirror next to the table as reflective as water can be A strong pull out and behind a secret hiding place you can see Next to the bed lies a small portable basketball hoop For me to dunk and act like a celebrity from my favorite song on loop                            ...

 Which day do you think would be the worst day in the whole year to get sick? Of course you would say any day would be the worst day to get sick. But which one would be the worst day out of those worst days to be ill?  Hello and a warm welcome back to my blog. Today, I am going to be talking about my birthday.  My birthday was on the 13th of October. A week earlier, I had planned lots of celebrations for my birthday , that I would play badminton with my cousins, play board games, have ice cream, see a movie and play cards. I had even planned a pre-birthday celebration so I could enjoy the day before my birthday with my maternal grandparents, uncle and my great grand mother who we call BABY Patti which is a humorous irony as she is the oldest person in the family.  On the morning of 12th October, my pre-birthday celebration was on. First, my Mama and my Patti wanted to let me choose a cake. My mother told me to get a cheap one but my Mama and Patti said...

       Once upon a time. NO, NO, NO. Cut. Those are the most boring words ever. Let's try again. Long ago in history fairy tales WERE boring until the times of the Brothers Grimm and Adam Gidwitz who imagined fairy tales from a whole new aspect and made it better for all generations to read. Now imagine, who would want to read a boring old book about two random kids going inside a gingerbread house and boiling a witch who tried to kill them alive. But, would you not want to read a book about two kids whose heads were cut off by their own parents which is a thing that would never actually happen but seems cool. Now that's a story everyone would relish. Welcome Back to my blog and as you might have guessed from my Introduction this is the book review of "A Tale Dark & Grimm". A Tale Dark & Grimm is a book by Adam Gidwitz which reimagines the world of Fairy Tales especially the Kingdom of Grimm where Hansel and Gretel are born. The story starts with the grandfat...

Welcome back to my blog. Today, I am feeling ecstatic because its my blog's First year anniversary. So I've currently posted 28 blogs, this is the 29th one and I am planning to post more blogs over the next year than I did in this year. I promise that I will post at least one blog a week .I loved the experience of writing my blog as I love reading and writing but the part which kept me going was the number of readers who read my blog. Whenever, I saw that people had visited my blog, no matter the number of them, let it be 2 or 40, it gave me an euphoric feeling which made me want to write more. So, I can honestly say that my writing has improved from documenting a blog and I would encourage everyone reading also to do so. I get overjoyed when I write book reviews in my blog as I write about all the books I read and it feels like I am conveying an emotion to others which was something I felt while reading the book myself. I also loved writing about my travels as I can write abou...

 BOOK REVIEW OF MAX IN THE HOUSE OF SPIES Max in the house of spies is a book about an intrepid boy named Max Abraham Bretzfeld who is from Germany. Max is forced to leave his parents and move to Britain on the Kindertransport as he was Jewish and had the risk of being affected by the Holocaust. Max is accompanied by two little men on his shoulders named Berg and Stein whom only Max can see and hear. Even though Max is being taken to safety he doesn't want to leave his parents in Germany. In Britain, Max stays with a Jewish family, The Montagus. Max goes to school with the Montagu children and both Max and the children are bullied for being Jewish. Max is also bullied because of his poor English and is accused of being a Nazi spy. Eventually, Max confronts the bullies and he is never harmed again. As time goes on a year passes and Max comes to know that some of the members of the Montagu family are part of the Naval intelligence. When Uncle Ivor and Mr. Stuart have a meeting with A...

     Welcome back to my blog. Today I am going to be talking about a readers haven for bookworms from all of India. A place for you to meet your favourite authors. A place where you can draw with Illustrators. A place where you can see your favourite authors talking to each other. A place where you are never denied your reading rights. A place where reading is celebrated like no other, The Neev Literature Festival.  On the 28th and 29th of September 2024, The Neev Literature Festival was held in Bangalore. It brought authors from all around India and even famous authors from US and Australia. These authors came here to share their experience about writing to kids and also for them to sign their books and give book reading sessions to children. I went to the Neev Literature Festival for the 5th time in my life(I went in 2019,2021,2022 and 2023 before this year) and I could say  without doubt that this was the best one in all the ones I've gone. I h...

กู้ภัยถ้ำไทย(Thai Cave Rescue)-When the stake of the lives of thirteen brought the world together.  The Thai Cave Rescue was the onerous extraction of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non Cave in 2018. The boys and the coach were part of a soccer team called the Wild Boars. They went to the Tham Luang Nang Non cave and got trapped as they were not aware of the storm outside.  The cave system is 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) long and has many deep recesses, narrow passages and tunnels winding under hundreds of meters of limestone strata.The Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand's Chiang Rai province was formed by groundwater erosion over a long period of time. The limestone was the main reason for the cave's flooding and it acts like a sponge. The boys went without food or clean water for 11 days until 2nd July 2018 when British divers John Volanthen and Rick Stanton found them 4 km into the cave.  The rescue effort involved as many as 10,000 people, ...