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So the winter just entered Karachi with all the subtlety and tact of a raging bull, past two days ago, and it was a frenzy after that. If you a are a karachite, you get the struggle. We hardly get any winter but when we do, we are whining about the harsher temperatures, you know the drill! So whats new you ask? Well for starters,I have a reminder for all you book lovers out there ( I cant get any fancy words in the morning, so I apologise in advance for any butchered and/or totally made up words, no caffeine yet) there is the 13 th annual book fair happening this weekend from 7-11 December  in Karachi. If you have attended the previous ones you would know how cray- amazing it is. This year they have more than 250+ Pakistani publishers, 15+international publishers.That means around 300+ bookstalls and alot of different genres too. From novels to academics to self help ,historical books,biographies,cook books,religious literature you will get some amazing collection and...

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 Hello to everyone coming across the post!  So, the picture I just posted, incase you did'nt get, these are the blog stats from 24 November 2017 to 1 December 2017, and Im glad MashaAllah , its 44 views, people visiting from different social media sources, it even tells about the countries you get views from, sweet! I previously had more US viewers and Pakistan on second, Pakistani viewers are at the top right now, but I love you guys regardless of the countries and boundaries! So actually coming to the reason of this post, even when I mentioned in my last post that I would be very much keeping a flying -under- the- radar- meaning -no- post- for- awhile status, is that as much as I love the stats, its sad part is no followers :( When you read the stuff I would love for you to give a feedback, even though I know it takes a bit of an effort and there is not a lot of material yet, but I fully plan on building it up so ther is that, As for following, Im not that narcisstic...

                                                    Hey Guys, here Im with another post. A couple of things that I would like to say beforehand .I plan to post my own, original pictures for the recipes in the future post , but Im in a bit of a time crunch right now and still wanted to put up a post before I go for a short- leave sorta timeout. I have some really important personal stuff coming up in next 3-4 months so I might not be able to post or catch up during that time, but would love your feedback as always Ok so on to the recipe. On of the best things in winter is that you get to dish out a few recipes that normally are not much done in summers, either due to the ingredients or somewhat due to their particular benefits for eating them in their particular season ( Is that kind of a Pakistani thing, though? :0 ). This recipe can be more like ...

                  BOOK HAULS        Hey you guys! So I just realised, listing out the favourite things, I totally forgot Book hauls. All you book-a-holics here, raise your hands!!!  I simply love book hauls, pure book heaven, it can be from a very organised big bookstore or your secret little known book place that gets you the best bargains. For me, the latter ones are way more better because a) lesser prices, more bargains means I get to shop more and a bigger collection!! b) Sometimes you get real treasures amongst those forgotten paperbacks I have a few interesting book haul ventures but amongst them the one I remember the most is this place in Gulshan-e-Iqbal , inside the alley, right off the main road & they had these huge vacant plots where there were multiple book stalls set up. It was like a book heaven, you guys!  It had both new & used books , Urdu and English both, and there were en...

Hello there!  Welcome to the blog. I would like to start by saying that I have decided on this blog after thinking long & hard ( no harm in that, I guess). I have been procrastinating for a long time. ( save the judgemental eyerolls). So a bit of intro.I'm a Pakistani, in my 20’s, a Muslim, Hijabi, developed my love for reading since that first R.L Stein novel in 5th grade , love coffee, dark chocolates, nature;  Ok so I kinda  started sounding like a cat lady for a while there ( no offence to the cat persons here) I'm a total introvert & don’t like to chatter incessantly, but that means I have 15 diff thoughts in my mind and yes , now I have given it a thought about how it is a good idea to talk( hence the blog), and if you don’t, it has a chance to mess up your focus, saying that, there is no social awkwardness. So you can expect it be something like- psychobabbling-expressing my interests- and living life one moment at a time & on moments, poring ov...