It’s been so many years since I wrote on this blog, I almost forgot I had it! The past few years I’ve been hard at work on a life-long project of finally writing my own story and putting it out into the world! I wrote and am currently in the editing process of my debut… Read More A New Venture
Zombies/Cannibals It most likely has to do with the chase but zombies or cannibals that want to eat you and chase you are the worst, I get horrible anxiety which is why I can’t watch the Walking Dead. Book format is more passable for me but there’s still moments when my heart is in my… Read More Top 5 Wednesdays: Favorite Creepy Settings
Title: When Dimple Met Rishi Author: Sandhya Menon Published: 2017 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Synopsis: Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level,… Read More Book Review: When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
Yay! Back to doing Top 5 Wednesdays! Actually I don’t do them if I am interested in the subject 🙂 So witches, really not my favorite genre, if they’re in the story that’s fine but you know what I’d really like to read? A literary fiction with a touch of witchy supernatural. That would be… Read More Top 5 Wednesdays: Books Featuring Witches
Title: Sense and Sensibility Author: Jane Austen Published: 1811 Genre: Classic Fiction Synopsis: Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father’s death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and… Read More Book Review: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
It’s been an insane month; school started, we have a massive storm of the decade, I decided to work the Emergency Center lines doing 12-14 shifts and tons of family descending on my house looking for safety. Hurricane Maria has destroyed my island my family is still lacking drinking water and electricity, I spent 2… Read More September 2017 Wrap Up
When Daddy Died And this is to my uncle The brother to my dead father He’s a worm on the ground Slithering in dirt an afterthought of the evolutionary chain Pathetic, the result of too much of nothing He told me once “stop talking like a grown up” And I stared at him At a… Read More My Poetry: When Daddy Died by Isabelle Hernandez
Title: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Author: J.D. Vance Published: 2016 Genre: Non-Fiction Memoir Summary: Vance’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love.” They got married and moved north from Kentucky to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. Their grandchild (the author) graduated from Yale Law… Read More Book Review: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Title: Beowulf Translated by: Seamus Heaney Published: 975 Genre: Classics Epic Poem Synopsis: Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero’s triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed in… Read More Book Review: Beowulf Translated by Seamus Heaney
Hey guys!! I am in Central Florida and we are hunkering down to brace for Irma. I have tons of family with me as they were evacuated from Miami so a house full of people (9 adults) and animals (2 cats and 1 dog) and we are hoping not to loose power. But in case… Read More Hurricane Irma
Having Tea While Reading 