Author: Shilpa

A closet writer with a knack for adding vivid, witty & personal details. I love coffee, books and food. Highly appreciate lo-fi music and illustrations. Borderline obsessed with stationery, productivity and organisation tools. Always in search of adventures & stories by travelling or being buried in books. Current Status ↠ Striving to finish my Goodreads 2020 Reading Challenge. Life Goals ↠ Spark conversations, ideas & inspiration with a cup of mild roasted black coffee.

Can We Keep Learning?

Once upon a time I bought a dotted journal, and that has made all the difference.

Growing A Thick Skin As A Blogger.

I always emphasise on the benefits and positive things that blogging can bring you in your life whether it’s the potential opportunities you might receive, the community you build or even the fact that you have a platform to talk about everything or anything you want. When you talk about the negativity in the blogging […]
Growing A Thick Skin As A Blogger.

With the Fire on High

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Print Length: 400 pages
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hot Key Books

Emoni Santiago is a teenage mother to a beautiful baby girl named Emma and granddaughter to an amazing ‘buela. Belonging to Black Hispanic ethnicity — from Puerto Rico living in Philly aka Philadelphia, Emoni aspires to be a professional chef. But how does she make her dreams come true?

In.

In. by Will McPhail

Print Length: 272 pages
Format: ebook
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Please take a moment and admire the gorgeous minimal cover. I know, don’t judge a book by its cover, but you can’t deny the effect that a gorgeous front cover can attract you to pick a book! Anyways, now that you are done gawking, I shall move on to tell you why this graphic novel is an interesting and a witty read. Let me explain.

“Writer’s block”

Seth Godin is notorious for the phrase – “Creative/writer’s block is a myth.” What he means is, we are so overwhelmed by the expectation of creating something perfect, it feels like we can’t create anything at all.
“Writer’s block”

Learning during Lockdown

¡Hola mi amigos! ¿Cómo estás hoy?

As I finally breathe after my mini victory of ranking first on Amethyst Level in Spanish lessons on Duolingo, I wonder how much has changed since I last wrote a tete-a-tete letter to vent out my feelings of anxiety. But with this “new normal” (I know you are tired of it already), I wonder how others are taking it on with so many changes forced upon us due to the pandemic.