Tag: reading
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Gallery Mondays: “Sea Dreams” by Peggy Mach
I’ve been to the Babylon Library a handful of times while back home in Long Island, but I’ve never stopped to take a proper photo of this sculpture in front of the building. Called “Sea Dream” the sculpture was created by Peggy Mach and donated to the Village of Babylon in 1983. In it, a…
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Fan Art Fridays: Hank Green
Today I found out that Hank Green, brother of John Green, has a book coming out in the fall of 2018! Full disclosure: I have never read any of John Green’s books, but I plan to at least read Paper Towns this year. Maybe I’ll even buy Hank Green’s book, titled An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, which will…
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Gallery Mondays: Patch Whisky’s Smart Monster #EducationIsNotACrime
I stumbled upon South Carolina artist Patch Whisky’s mural for the Not a Crime campaign in East Harlem on the wall of Fabco Shoes a few weeks ago when I got off the M103 bus. I cannot handle how adorbs his colorful monsters are! The one featured in this mural is reading a book and…
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I Failed My 2016 Reading Challenge
It seems a combination of the 40-hour (sometimes 48-hour) work week, extra freelance work, and putting some really thick books on my reading list took its toll on my ability to complete my 2016 Goodreads Reading Challenge. As you may remember from last year, I wrote a post about my 2015 victory, which included a list…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 5
This is the last part of Runaway Girl (for now!). I had a lot of fun revisiting this story, so maybe next NaNoWriMo I’ll write another four or five parts. Read the previous parts here. The following weeks consisted of Priya and I searching for a job. “How about modelling?” she’d suggested. “Maybe hand modelling for jewelry and…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 4
This was supposed to be the last part of Runaway Girl, but since there’s one more Sunday in November, and I’ve been getting a lot of views on the NaNoWriMo posts, I’ve decided to make this a five part story! Enjoy part 4! (Read the previous parts here). I got up from the table with an…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 3
Enjoy part 3 of Runaway Girl. (Read part 1 and part 2) It’s been two weeks since I left Bangladesh. I feel so free here in New York. Priya and Greg have taken me to a Broadway show and to a few museums in Manhattan. Everything is so beautiful here. A smile wouldn’t leave my face until…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 2
Enjoy the second part of Runaway Girl! (Read part 1 here) It was only five o’clock in the morning when I tiptoed down the stairs and out the back door of the house. I took one last look at the family photo on the living room table and then I left. I was going to miss this…
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Fan Art Fridays: Grace Helbig and Chester See (Grester)
In honor of #NaNoWriMo, every Fan Art Fridays post for November will have a fan fiction story to go along with it. Coincidentally, the cover of the fan fiction is almost the same as this week’s fan art! YouTube fans cannot stop gushing over Grester. I figured that I would find some pretty good fan fiction…
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NaNoWriMo 2015: ‘Runaway Girl’ Part 1
I’ve decide to participate in NaNoWriMo this year! The story I’ll be sharing here on my blog is one that I wrote as a Year 1 at Bard High School Early College Queens. The prompt was “family injustice” so I wrote about a Bengali girl whose parents were forcing her to marry someone she has no interest…
The Whisper Box 