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Author Interview : Priyanka Sharma Kaintura

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Meet Priyanka Sharma Kaintura, author of My Jiffies, a beautiful collection of experiences and bite-sized narrations that I very recently reviewed on this blog. Here's a little tete-a-tete with her. BookVue : Priyanka, welcome to Book Vue. Your book, My Jiffies, is very unique. What gave you the idea for such a book? Priyanka Sharma Kaintura : Thank you Chitra, but I didn’t know that I was making something unique! What I did know is that a good structure is the backbone of a good book, or shall I say the ‘spine’ of a book. So my challenge was either to divide the writings by the format of rendering or by the emotions they recite. I chose a mix of both. Orations, Monologues & Dialogues, Stories, Life Aphorisms and Eclogues are the five formats, while Pathos & Satire express two different emotions. Also I haven’t come across very many books carrying sections such as Monologues and Dialogues or Orations. So that was done to add a unique and delectable flavor for the...

Book Review: My Jiffies

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Buy from Amazon.in Title:  MyJiffies - Narration of Moments, Unadulterated and Unpackaged Author: Priyanka Sharma Kaintura Genre: Fiction, Memoirs Pages: 252 Publisher: Notion Press Rating: 4.2/5 My Jiffies is not your regular book or novel. It is a collection of random experiences and thoughts, and some 'bite-sized' narrations. The book is divided into sections like Orations, Eclogues, Stories, Monologues and Dialogues, each topic conveying a warm, touching message. Just to give you an idea, the Eclogues section, for example, is a collection of short poems reflecting the emotions of love, sometimes despair. The Dialogue section are short anecdotes with dialogues, of course. The Stories section are little takes in different stages of life and other narratives out of which The Nine Shades of Durga is my favorite. Women of different caliber are explained in these stories in a short but distinct way. Basically...