Readathon : BookPhotoQuizReadathon

Hey all Book lovers ❤

I and my fellow book lover Hema are doing a unique readathon and below are the details for them. This will be mostly active on instagram, but feel free to participate in twitter or your blog by posting on specific prompts for those days of readathon.

We will be taking over tags #bpqreadathon #bookphotoquizreadathon for this readathon. So please make sure you use them to get us notified about it.
Also tag Me (@night.bibliophile) and Hema (@hematalreja) for any post/story regarding readathon.

So here you go about the details

27 Jul-28 Jul-29 Jul-30 Jul : Read Book(s) from 100 books to read in a lifetime

31 Jul-1 Aug-2 Aug-3 Aug : Read book(s) on which movies/series

4 Aug-5 Aug-6 Aug-7 Aug : Read book(s) with an nonhuman character
*be it a unicorn, or dementor just make sure there is at least ONE*

8 Aug-9 Aug-10 Aug-11 Aug : Read Book(s) from your favorite Author/Genre

The links are provided just for helping you to choose, you can choose any that goes under the specified Prompt.

**Thanks for your attention, feel free to reach us here or Instagram for any further details*

Me (@night.bibliophile) or Hema (@hematalreja)

Happy Reading

The Love Song of Maya K and Other Stories

Book : The Love Song of Maya K and Other Stories
Author : Shuma Raha
Pages : 216
Price : 379/-
Publication : Niyogi Books

The novel is a compilation of 13 not so short stories. I loved the cover, it’s all bright red and give us a feel of something related to female love in the title itself.
The title is chosen on the basis of a story among 13 other stories. Authoress Shuma has very beautifully narrated these 13 stories, the stories revolve around Female characters and are set in Delhi & Kolkata. Being a delihite, I could surely manage to imagine certain situations mentioned in the book. Kolkata stories, have so much of variety of FOOD (I loved it 😛 )

Each story is turned and twisted up in the end, if not middle, the title of the story is made clear in the end. Characters are given enough space, and reality to sink in for the story. Many characters were given next door neighbor characteristics, which made them easy to connect.

With all these things said above, I however, couldn’t connect much to stories. Character’s I could, but the stories were finished with a twist and sometimes I just have to read again parts of the story to understand the twist. This happened with me for 2-3 stories.

Short stories from Niyogi Books, always leave a mark on readers. And I am happy to read this, this definitely leaves a mark on me. But the impact is less than other short stories I read from same publishing house.

Final Note :

If you love reading short stories, and those which revolved around women. Then you should definitely read it.
If the characters and social situations attract you, you should give this one a try.

Cover: 3.5/5
Title: 3/5
Blurb: 3.5/5
Theme: 3.5/5
Story: 3/5
Characters: 3/5
Overall: 3.2/5

*Thanks to Niyogi Books for providing review copy in return of an honest review.*