Horror – Pari's Books!

Bats and Bones by Jeffery Hickey

Bats and Bones is IPPY award winning author Jeffrey Hickey’s second work for children. This collection of spooky tales for middle school aged children and above is a subtle masterpiece of fright and emotion. Hickey wrote all the stories, the lush music, and does all the voices for the audio book. His wife, Karen Kiser,…

Song of the post: Adios by Hoody I don’t even where to start today. It’s the 9th Anniversary of my blog. I began writing here at the tender age of 17, and here I am. This blog and all of these posts and thoughts and word vomits are a testament of my growth, and […]

Things I forget

Song of the post: Moonlight by Henry Lau (purely for vibes) I scroll through Instagram or Twitter, seeing lots of art and wishing I could do this and that and that and oh, that! I hate this feeling. I hate it when I don’t enjoy the art that I’m seeing, instead just comparing myself and […]

8 years.

It’s my 8th blog anniversary this year (actually, it was two days ago, on the 6th) and I contemplated a lot on whether or not I should really write a post and celebrate it this year. Whenever I think of my blog anniversary, I always think of wanting to celebrate it nicely, celebrate it alone […]

Aging more , understanding less

Song of the post: Intro: Persona Every time I listen to the chorus of Intro: Persona, RM’s words, ‘Persona, who the hell am I?’ cut through me and leave me wondering, ‘Yeah, who really am I?’ Sometimes I feel like I know myself. When I’m arguing with Appa about decisions—life-altering ones like whether or not […]

Year-end talks and all that

Song of the post: Nineteen by B.I. I think it’s nothing new that I’m fond of New Year as much as I am of Diwali…which is to say, not at all. But I do like to write a year-end post, even though it usually doesn’t really talk about my year. Last year’s post, 2020 in […]