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

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

Cheryl wrote: "Finished this one for Adventure: The Loch Man versus marine creature. Four stars - I loved it! My review can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/revie..."

Sounds great. I'll add it to my TBR pile. Thanks, Cheryl :)

Dagny wrote: "Finished my second for the month - it was quite short, probably novella length. Murray Leinster's Juju as mentioned above in Message 25. Entertaining and action-packed with a few surprises along th..."

It is short and it is also available on Gutenberg and LibriVox? I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the links you shared earlier Dagny!

I read my first for this month: Tears of the Ancient and Other Stories - 4/5
This book was a collection of short stories. All of them can be categorized as adventurous except for the last one which was full of action. So I'm going to count this one as an Adventure read. :)

Cheryl wrote: "I nominate Boy's Life. I haven't read it yet. A coming of age story, with some creepy fantasy elements. (Hmm, sounds a little like Stephen King's novel, It.)"

Sounds interesting.

The Shining and Dr. Sleep

Dagny wrote: "Wow, Heena. Very interesting - and fairly clear and straight forward. Thanks a lot to our resident author for coming through for us."

Hehe! Thanks a lot, Dagny! :D

Cheryl wrote: "Thanks, Heena! But the Goodreads explanation contradicts what you just said. Oh boy, now what? I will just post the books I am reading and you can classify them."

I referred to a lot of definitions and I guess it's safe to say that the Goodreads definition is wrong.
Anyway, if it makes things easier, then of course you are free to interpret genres as you will. :) There are no rules.

Cheryl - Most of the people do Action and Adventure together, but there are quite a few significant technical differences:

Action = usually about a hero facing down crime or exacting some kind of justice. Facing down crime = Die Hard, exacting justice = Man on Fire.
Adventure = your hero usually is thrust out of his own world in the name of some kind of quest. Star Wars, Wizard of Oz, even Matrix.

Action = Man/Woman versus man/woman. Pendergrast Series
Adventure Man/Woman versus nature or different environment. Eg. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Series

Action = Intense, gritty and serious. Eg. Jack Reacher Series
Adventure = Usually humorous and light-hearted (but not necessarily so) Eg. Adventures Of Hucckleberry Finn

Action = Almost always Fiction (Mostly crime novels)
Adventure = Most of the times Fantasy (Hobbit)

While determining genres, the central conflicts are considered, and not necessarily the overall theme. For example, an Adventure story will always have a part full of action, but the main genre stays Adventure and not Action. THGTTG series by Douglas Adams is a classic example. And vice versa.

Hope this helps :)

Forgot to post this, I managed to read 1 fantasy novel last month - Esper Files and it is quite good. 4/5 stars.

Cheryl- Nice idea. Thanks a lot! Appreciate it!

Thanks a bunch, Dagny! You're the best!


On a side note, I was wondering if we have a Goodreads Librarian here? I need to delete the old cover for my book and it keeps on saying that only a librarian can do it or something like that. Can anyone please help me?

Thanks a lot for creating this thread, Dagny!

Mark wrote: "Congratulations for such a big achievement, Well done."

Thanks a lot, Mark! :)

Husain wrote: "Heena wrote: "Awesome Heena, Congratulations. Looking forward to buying ur book. "

Thanks, Hussain! I hope you'll like it :)

R.K wrote: "Hey Heena! Congratulations for your book!!!
I would really love to read and review if that's possible. I need a lot of more books to read my Christmas break. Or else I'll try to be patient for Febr..."

Thanks a lot, R.K. and it's really sweet of you to say so. :)
Please share your email address so that we can discuss further.

Sundara wrote: "Wow! Heena.. Big congratulations!!
I'm super happy for you<3
I'd love to read and review it!!"

Thanks a lot Sundara. :)
Please share your email address so that we can discuss further.

Dagny wrote: "Yea, Heena. Congratulations!"

Thanks, Dagny! <3

Cheryl wrote: "Thanks, Heena. I'm looking forward to buying your book. It sounds great!"

Thanks a lot, Cheryl! I hope you'll like it :)

*Damn Autocorrect. Please ignore the typos.

Cheryl - It's releasing in all formats - Hardback, paperback, and all ebook formats (epib, mobi and pdf) and will be available in Amazon in all these formats after the release.

But the ARCs will be available in e-book format outside India as my publisher is not permitting to ship them internationally before the release (i.e., in December and January.) Also, it'll be available on NetGalley too from 20th December. ☺