My Life in Books Tag

Hey everyone! Today, I will be doing the My Life In Books tag. Danni of For Books Sake tagged me and it looks like fun. So here goes! Find a book for each of your initials This one is easy as I am doing Twelve Months and A Twelve Letter Name book challenge this year where every month I …

This House of Clay and Water

Goodreads synopsis Set in Lahore, This House of Clay and Water explores the lives of two women. Nida, intelligent and lonely, has married into an affluent political family and is desperately searching for some meaning in her existence; and impulsive, lovely Sasha, from the ordinary middle-class, whose longing for designer labels and upmarket places is …

Blasphemy by Tehmina Durrani

Goodreads Synopsis: Tehmina Durrani made her sensational literary debut in 1991 with her controversial autobiography My Feudal Lord. Blasphemy, her next major work, promises to generate the same degree of excitement. Set in south Pakistan, the novel inspired by a true story, is a searing study of evil; an uncompromising look at the distortion of Islam …

My Feudal Lord by Tehmina Durrani

Many in my book club started talking about My Feudal Lord and at the time I believed it was freshly released fiction they were talking about. It intrigued me so much that I wanted to read it for myself before I read any reviews of it. A colleague one day mentioned that he has the …

Haveli by Zeenat Mahal

 A coloured post for Zeenat Mahal’s book. The cover is such that I could not stop myself from doing that. I will put in a few bits from the story but I do not think they could be called spoilers. You can read the review and go back to read a good novella. Set in Pakistan in the …