In this blog I will only recommend books which I have read and reviewed. I am the proverbial bookworm. I buy my own books and treasure them. A voracious reader of all genres I read both fiction and non-fiction. Books are my passion and I am passionate about them.
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Pebble In The Still Waters: Author Interview: Fiza Pathan: So This Is Love - C...
Pebble In The Still Waters: Author Interview: Fiza Pathan: So This Is Love - C...: Addressing the audience at her Book launch She is a teacher and the author of four books: S.O.S. Animals and Other Stories , Treasur...
Saturday, 29 March 2014
2014 London Book Fair New Titles Showcase
THE PUBMATCH BOOKSHELF
Stand: U700
Formerly The New Title Showcase, The PubMatch Bookshelf is The London Book Fair's only official exhibit for publishers and authors to place their books and eBooks front and center for LBF's active audience. Books from all over the world and in every genre will be represented, and all titles on display have available rights.
Each print book will be displayed face out, with eBooks being displayed on large monitors. Information for each title will be housed in the exhibit’s catalogue, along with each company or author’s contact information so users can inquire directly with the user.
I am thrilled to announce that my new book ‘SO THIS IS LOVE – COLLECTED POEMS’ will be showcased at The PubMatch Bookshelf. At present my eBook is available on the link below for viewing. This year the LBF will be held from the 8th to the 11th of April, 2014. I would appreciate the support of all my followers.
Friday, 28 March 2014
Review by Margaret Virany of 'So This Is Love - Collected Poems by Fiza Pathan'
Aptly Titled, Enriching Verses from a Passionate Poet on the Path to Greatness
Review By Margaret Virany (Author of A Book of Kells: Growing Up in an Ego Void)
Format:Kindle Edition
As a very young woman the heroine falls in love, marries, realizes her husband doesn't love her the way she loves him, is betrayed, abandoned, rejected and left empty. She feels ravaged, devoured and trashed by conflicting emotions; it becomes impossible for her either to remember or forget, or to live or die. In So This Is Love, a 115-page journey of 40 poems, Fiza Pathan (a Christian school-teacher from Mumbai, India) takes the reader down into seasons of stormy waters and barren deserts, but finally reaches a sunny, fertile land with a gentle breeze. The easy verse proceeds lyrically, logically and clinically, using no rhyme but lots of imagery of blood, bones, dust, tears, claws, thorns, knives, daggers and other sharp weapons. We go through pain, guilt, witchcraft, necromancy, suicide, alcoholism, insanity, zombieism, cynicism, defiance, hatred and retribution. Then we ascend via fantasy, inner strength, music, contemplation, responsibility, self-therapy, forgiveness, and awareness to a state of control, calm, creativity and hope. At the root of this collection is Pathan's passion as a poet. In the Preface she says the source for every writer of prose is "the single, pure flame that leaps out from the core of your blood and the divinity of His love. You do not speak of yourself but every time you lift your pen to pour out your heart's yearnings onto the papyrus, your duty toward mankind is sealed in it." Pathan's solid grounding in reading the classics from an early age has put her on the path to greatness. In three readings of these poems, I felt myself greatly enriched each time. It is not often that a writer more than 50 years my junior sends me scrambling to Wikipedia to look up an allusion (in this case to Casca).  |
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Monday, 17 March 2014
#GoodreadsGiveaway 'So This Is Love - Collected Poems' by Fiza Pathan
Goodreads Book Giveaway
So This Is Love - Collected Poems
by Fiza Pathan
Giveaway ends March 31, 2014.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Starting midnight on Wednesday, March 19 through midnight on Monday, March 31. I have selected 3 copies to give away to Goodreads members in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote D'ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands, Holy See (vatican City State), Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, Republic of, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Réunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Thailand, Timor-leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States Minor Outlying Islands, and Uruguay.
#newpoetrybook 'So This Is Love - Collected Poems' by Fiza Pathan
I am thrilled to announce the publication of my first Poetry Book 'So This Is Love - Collected Poems'
I am grateful for the overwhelming support I have received from my blogging community on
Wordpress.com, IndiBlogger.in, Blogspot, my Twitter and Facebook friends, my contacts on Linkedin, Google+,
fellow Authors and Poets and my readers and fans. I dedicate this book to your love and as I mentioned in my book :
'To all lovers struck by Cupid’s arrow and stung by the rose’s thorn.'
The poems have been brilliantly edited by Susan Hughes http://www.myindependenteditor.com/
and Cover Art has been beautifully designed by: LLPix Photography http://llpix.com/
The Kindle version is available for $2.99 while the Paperback is available for $6.99.
For Amazon Prime Members the book is available free for download and reading.
Matchbook Scheme available. Take a peek at the preview available on Amazon and
download a sample to your PC or Kindle. I count on your support to spread the word around.
Fiza Pathan
Friday, 25 October 2013
Smashwords: Smashwords Ebook Publishing Workshops on Youtube
Smashwords: Smashwords Ebook Publishing Workshops on Youtube: I've posted a series of five ebook publishing workshops at Youtube. Each is embedded below. Whether you're considering publishing...
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
'The Force Of A Classic' by Fiza Pathan
The Force Of A Classic by Fiza Pathan
Nothing works best as a classic to stimulate
the mind of a student & to help the individual to achieve his or her
highest capabilities. However, we as parents, teachers & educationists
should not in a way ‘force’ the profitable habit of reading on a child. We must
realize that, just the way we as adults do not like our government or any other
powerful body to push something down our throat which we do not wish to be a
part of in anyway, for children….we are their ‘governments’ & they to have
the right not to be forced into any habit without their own choice taken into consideration.
Well then if such is the case, how is one then going to ignite the flame of
studiousness & how can one cultivate the habit of reading in the mind of
the child???.........the answer however complicated it may seem is infact,
quite easy.
Reading good classics & good literature
should be tackled from another angle where
the students of the 21st
century are concerned. If one actually goes on the internet & checks out
the books written for children these days, one will realize that the numbers
are NUMEROUS starting from normal adventure fiction, light humour, horror,
vampire fiction, fantasy literature, hard core fantasy literature & so on;
the children of today have got a variety in contemporary literature to choose
from, so how can one divert their attention to the classic section of the library?
There are many ways one can do this according
to me which I myself as a teacher have subtly tried out successfully with my
students.
One way is to get to know the interests of
one’s child & try to develop on it positively…..& on the way, suggest a
classic to read. Example: if the student has a fondness for horse riding, the
classic ‘Black Beauty’ by Anna Sewell can be suggested to the student or if the
child is into science fiction then along with other techniques to develop the
child’s interest, a classic like the ‘Time Machine’ by H.G.Wells can be used to
develop the interest of the pupil in classic science fiction. Another way to
interest the child in reading classics is to let the student accidentally stumble
upon the book, maybe at the school house, in his or her room, on the dining
table etc. Curiosity being the overriding emotion in every child will stimulate
the child to ask questions about the book:
- · What is this story all about?
- · When was it written?
- · Did you read it?
- · How did you like it?
- · Tell me more about the content of the story?
The questions can go on & subtly, without
the merest hint of suggestion; the pupil will come to learn about a classic
from his favourite adult, be it a middle school teacher, a grandmother or even
a librarian. Another way to introduce a classic to a child sans force could be
through the medium of audio-visual media. I’ve often used this technique at my
tuition classes with my students where I show them a clipping about a classic
in the form of a video, power-point presentation, slides etc., & then out
of sheer curiosity, they go ahead & read the classic. I’ve also noticed
that classics like:
- · The Count Of Monte Cristo
- · Oliver Twist
- · Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
- · David Copperfield
- · Dracula
- · Frankenstein
- · Hound Of The Baskervilles
etc., have a great appeal to first timers
with classics.
However, whatever one must do, one must never
force a classic onto a child. Just like we engage a new born baby into the
world, we need in a slow step by step process, stimulate our pupils into the
habit of reading good literature which will help them moralistically,
intellectually & culturally.
Copyright © 2013 by Fiza Pathan
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