Heena is the author of the award-winning novel Deceived. She works as the novel critic and the chief editor at a local publishing house in Pune, India. She is an animal lover as well as an animal activist.
She loves books, music and wine. Travelling and learning about new cultures is an integral part of her life.
She is presently learning Piano and French language.
She lives in Pune, India with her beloved husband and 6 cats.
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a snippet from NaNoville…
A fantastic Chapter by the lovely and extremely talented Sue Bahr…
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Save that IDEA!
Most of the times we just keep the ideas in our mind and think that we don’t have enough ideas to start writing, but guess what, all you’re doing is killing all those ideas that your mind already has! Trust me, you’ll never really have enough ideas to make you get up and start writing…
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Word Of The Week #1
Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. It’s a fun way to improve your vocabulary by learning new words every week. If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on my WOW post…
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The first post!
My Author Blog
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The first post!
Hi guys! My name is Heena Rathore P. and I’m a writer in progress. This is my 3rd blog and I hope that all the readers of my other two blogs as well as the new readers have a great time browsing though this blog. I blog at The Reading Bud, which is a book…
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Word Of The Week Meme… by me!
Hi folks! Like most of the bloggers, I love participating in memes and prompts related to books and blogging. My favorite one being Top Ten Tuesdays! I’ve also decided to create a small weekly meme named Word Of The Week. I know how much vocabulary means to each and everyone in the blogosphere. Whether you…
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What Do Stories Mean to You – HEENA RATHORE P. (The Reading Bud)
My Guest-Post on Chesapeake Films about How Stories Changed My Life.
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Free Writing: The Best Exercise For Writers!
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Ten Books I Want To Reread
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by the awesome authors of The Broke and the Bookish. Today’s topic is: Ten Books/Series I Want To Reread: The Hobbit Lord Of The Ring Series A Song Of Ice And Fire Series Hunger Games Series Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Series Twilight Series The Clifton Chronicles Da…
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New Review Format
Whenever I sit down to review a book, all the things that I wanna say about the book instantly floods my mind and sometimes I see that I’ve mistakenly forgotten to write about 1-2 points. That’s the reason I broke my review in 3 categories- Positives, Negatives and Conclusion. But from last month or so…
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NaNoWriMo
Finally after giving it a lot of thought, I’ve decided to participate in NaNoWriMo, after all it’s about having fun and interacting with other authors, and yea… writing (a lot!) This will be my first time participating in a writing competition, except for a few I took part in when I was in school. I’m…
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A Wish Come True!
Hey guys… I have a very happy post to share with all you lovely people today! I’ve got my Note-4, Charcoal Black! Since the time I got my first Note, I’ve been a huge fan of Samsung phones (yes, I like them even more than iPhones!) I love the easy interface of Notes and the unlimited…
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RMFAO Buddy-Read #1: Pet Sematary
Hi guys! I hope you all had a great weekend! As most of you know that I’ve created a group on Goodreads, RMFAO (if not, then read about it here or visit the group on Goodreads here.) In November we’ll be having our first buddy-read. Being a huge Stephen King’s fan I wanted to begin…
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Guest-Post: How to Conquer Writer’s Block!
My guest post on Thoughtful Minds United. How to Conquer Writer’s Block!
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J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
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L’ORÉAL’s Medium-Brown it is!
Hey guys! I’ve been planning on getting a very particular look for my hair in terms of colour, and finally I’ve figured out (on my own!) how to get it. My natural hair colour is Dark-Brown, something like chocolate-fudge, with just the tinniest hints of a lighter shade of brown. Awesome right! But as always I’m…
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It Really Is “All About the Books”
You’ve gotta watch this! PS: I guess the video won’t play for some reason! Please visit the original post and watch it over there. It’s really awesome!
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RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off)
Hi friends! I’ve created my first group on Goodreads: RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off). Isn’t the name amazeballs! I’m really, really excited and would love to invite you all to join it. I’m planning to have a lot of buddy-reads and a hell loads of Read-a-Thons! I’ll be posting about them here, on The Reading Bud as well…
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The Right Decision
Hi guys! I haven’t been active from past 10 days as I was down with fever and allergic cough. Vishal is still recovering from the viral he caught, and so am I 😐 The last 2 weeks of illness have given me enough time to rethink about what I really wanna do and more importantly how I’m…
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Book Review: Frostbitten
Author: Heather Beck Release Date: June 23, 2014 Series: None Genre: YA | Paranormal-Romance | Shapeshifters- Werewolves Edition: e-book (epub) Pages: 296 Publisher: Enchanted Publishing Interest: Requested by author Source: Author (Thanks, Heather!) To buy Frostbitten click here. Blurb Great beauty hides dark secrets… Seventeen-year-old Anastasia Lockhart has never led an easy life, but when she starts getting into serious…
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Love, roses and pot-pourri!
Hey everyone! We went to an amazing Travel Fest on Sunday and had an amazing day there inquiring and planning travel to various places we had in mind for the next year, including, Rann Of Kutch, Himalayas of Jammu & Kashmir, Nepal, Andaman and Nicobar and of-course, Europe. To end the perfect we went out for dinner…
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Lemon!
Hello friends, this week’s prompt is Lemon. And the theme is ‘text and type’. As I love sketching textures, I decided to do a simple piece for my first post. I haven’t even doodled since December’13 and so this is more like a warm-up. I hope you’ll like my work and do not forget to share yours…
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Spoonchallenge: A Month Of Drawing
Hello friends and bloggers! Yesterday was Raksha Bandhan but I spent most of my day sleeping as I had a severe headache. I was feeling a bit low (God knows why!) so I thought of doing something special for myself (Yes, I do believe in keeping myself happy.) That’s why today I went ahead and dug in the blogs that…
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Showcase Sunday #1
Hi and welcome to Showcase Sunday, a weekly feature hosted by Books, Biscuits & Tea. It’s aim is to showcase our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders each week. I have a lot to share and as…
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Musing Mondays #3
Musing Mondays is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. My Musing: With all the review requested books piling up on my virtual-shelf, I’m really not getting time to read the books that I’ve issued from my library. I’m constantly trying to have a strict schedule for each and every book, but with Rakshabandhan (Rakhi)…
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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…
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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 2. Game Of Thrones
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Top Ten Blogging Confessions
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by the awesome authors of The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is: My Top Ten Blogging Confessions: 1. I prefer printed books over e-books. I like the feel of a book in my hand and also the old, subtle smell. In printed books I can use…
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Ten Books I Almost Put Down But Didn’t
Hi, everyone! Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! This weekly event is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Todays topic is Ten Books I Almost Put Down But Didn’t. I have only Eight books to add to the list will add more if I’ll recall any sometime! Enjoy reading the list and do share your…