Heena’s Comments (group member since Oct 13, 2014)

Heena’s comments from the RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off) group.

Hi Guys...

I'm creating this discussion board early this month so that we can list and organise our reads easily.

YA is the new... black... sort of... well, you get it, right!?!? And I'm sure that everyone has atleast half a dozen YA books in their TBR lists... so lets get started!

Dagny wrote: "Heena wrote: "I'm really liking it Dagny... Thanks so much for posting it on your blog... :)
It's more fun to read your's :D
I'm done till Chapter-5... will be reading the rest by the end of the da..."

Haw! I hope the the power outage wasn't for long! Atleast it gave you the time for getting other stuff done... :)

I'm really glad I got to read a book that has such an interesting backstory! :)

I'm done with my 2nd Romance:
I loved it and my rating is: 4//5 on Goodreads but the real one is 4.5/5. It's an awesome tale set in a dystopian setting in Vegas. It has various elements of supernatural, survival, adventure, action, mystery and suspense. But the main theme revolves around ROMANCE... so it fits :D

Dagny wrote: "Love in a Mask; Or, Imprudence and Happiness: A Hitherto Unpublished Novel is a book by my favorite author. I searched for it for years. It's one of the ones he churned out while honing his writing skills. I read the first couple of chapters and it is quite the ordinary romance with plenty of tedious (to me) dialogue. I don't do well with flirtatious conversations, lol. Anyway, along about chapter three or so, something very, very unexpected turned up, especially for the time this was written, well over a hundred years ago. Anyway, I'm now enchanted with the book, so much so that since it is in public domain I am typing it to make it available to all. It's just a short novella. "

I'm really liking it Dagny... Thanks so much for posting it on your blog... :)
It's more fun to read your's :D
I'm done till Chapter-5... will be reading the rest by the end of the day.

I'll be reading for this month as I have it with me from quite sometime now and also I have a lot of books for next month's YA genre. As 1000+ people have listed this one under romance genre, I guess it'll be fair to make it pass for this month ;)

I'm done with , and I really liked it. I loved the story and the characters. I'll be reviewing it next week. But my rating for this is 4/5.

Steve wrote: "Abandoned my first foray into this genre. Loco definitely didn't live up to the blurb on the cover. My review, such as it is, is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"

Sorry to hear that! I hope you'll like Stardust... :)

I've started romance month with Frozen . I started it in Jan but for reasons forgotten I still haven't completed it...
It's more of a fantasy and I'm really enjoying it. This will also be added for my NetGalley challenge so I guess, it's a fair deal!

My second book is See Her Run . It's about a girl trying to start a new life, running from an abusive husband. it's a romance but with mystery and again, from NetGalley.

Steve wrote: "Here's a "romantic" suggestion: The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. Nothing says romance like a beating heart buried under the floorboards. :D

(Stolen from a Bookriot Facebook po..."

OMG! The cover is really intimidating!
I've added it to my TBR list... will try and get to it soon!

Dagny wrote: "I've come up with another 'romance' possibility for those that don't want straight romance a la Barbara Cartland etc.
Doctor Zhivago"

An interesting pick Dagny... I'll check it out :)
Thanks for sharing!

Dagny wrote: "Aw, Heena, I wish you could shake that cold off. I hate when they hang on like that. It's a rare month that I don't read mysteries, they're my main bookish fodder.

Hang in there! Can't be in Roman..."

Same here! Still I'm trying to squeeze in mysteries which fall loosely in Romance... hehe!

And yea... it's really irritating to read while having cold! Can't handle anymore... I'm feeling a bit better though! Went out for food today and I looks like my fav meal has completely healed me... ;)

Here is my list so far:

1. Madame Bovary, recommended by Dagny
2. See Her Run, NetGalley (Suspense+Romance)
3. The Birthday Gift, NetGalley (Mystery+Romance)
4. All's Fair in Love and Cupcakes, NetGalley, a typical contemporary romance

These are my BOOKIOPATH picks... If I'll get some time, I'll try and squeeze in...

1. The Rescue
2. The Time Traveler's Wife
3. Dear John, re-read
4. Nights in Rodanthe, re-read

Phew.... I have a few more but I doubt I can squeeze them in without having a "reading attack" lol!

Simona wrote: "I'd be lying by telling you I am not into this genre, because I really am. I have a ton of it on my tbr list and it's basically my fill in genre: whenever I can't decide what book to read next I pi..."

I agree with you Simona... Danny is the best person to ask for classics recs. :)
I'll also be reading Madam Bovary :)

Steve wrote: "Heena, I'm constantly updating my reading challenge list as I find books that fit into the various categories. It's almost like running a mock draft for fantasy football...

Fantasy Library? :D "


Hahaha! I'm with you! ;)

Chris wrote: "Ok, I scrapped together a few potentials.

As suggested :)

Madame Bovary

and for the others:

The Fault in Our Stars
Out of Time
[book:UnEnchanted|1..."

TFIOS is a beautiful read... :)

Dagny wrote: "Prior to our discussion on the main Genre thread, I was barely going to scrape into the Casual Reader (one book) category. Now it looks like a solid Bibliophile (four books) and with luck and time ..."

Hey Dagny... I'll be joining you with The Rescue and if possible The Time Traveller's wife.
I'm also planning on reading Madam Bovary :)

Suzanne wrote: "I have quite a few of romance titles on my TBR. These are a few books I'd like to get around to:
Blindness
Game of Love
My Name Is Memory"

I'll also check out these titles as I haven't read 'em :)
Happy reading Suzanne!

OMG! You guys are just killing' me!

I wanted to finish Casual Vacancy by any means, but due to this damning cold I wasn't able to...
Though I'll be reading some mysteries this month (March) as well... I'll still be putting up my updates here and if anyone of you read more mysteries, feel free to share it here... after all this thread is for that (no matter the month... ;)

Have a great month ahead of you guys... <3

Julia wrote: "I've posted my review to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick on my Writing Blog, here's a link to it:
Havering: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick"

Great review Julia :)

Thanks a lot Dagny... i'll check it out and let you know... :)