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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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…
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Living in a Void #1
As a child born in a super rich family I had a very different life as one would imagine. A quick background of my family: My great-grandfather, started an arms and ammunition factory by the name Dewas Gun Caps Factory which was then run by my grand father (Hari Raj Sing Rathore, who completed his…
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Earth Day
I checked out fb in the morning and realised that yesterday was Earth Day. I want to confess that I really didn’t know that it was this month. Well, now that I know when it was, I really feel that I owe our mother Earth this post (atleast)! I am thinking of celebrating it today.…
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The Deutsch Affair: Beginning
Well first off lets be very clear that this post is about The German Language. I’ve done my schooling from St. Mary’s Convent Sr. Sec. School (till 10th grade) and Air Force School (11th and 12th Science) but unfortunately we never had additional language classes. As a result I know only 2 languages Hindi and English…
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Rediscovering My Love of Drawing
My love for drawing started when I was a year old. I started by scribbling on the walls and floors. As I grew I started to use drawing books, pencils, crayons, sketch pens and then finally brushes and paints. By the time I was in 5th grade, everyone used to think I’ll also be an…
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About Me
My name is Heena Rathore P., and I’m a 23-year-old B.Com. Grad. and a blogger who loves to read. I currently live in Pune, Maharashtra (India). Married to the love of my life and since then living my dream life (All thanks to Vishal!) Reading is something I love since childhood. And finally I am…