Momina's Space

This book is about a jolly old man called Mr. Hoppy who hold only two things very, very close to his heart: his various plants that he grows in his home garden and Mrs. Silver who lives in the storey just under his balcony and who he falls absolutely in love with. The problem, however, with this happy love story is that his beloved Mrs. Silver has no idea how smitten the poor man is with her. The reason for this is that Mr. Hoppy happens to be a shy man and doesn't manage to say a lot to the lady other than the usual polite conversations that these two share while standing on their own separate balconies. How very sad indeed! Another obstacle that Mr. Hoppy is faced with is Alfie the tortoise who is the sole  object of Mrs. Silver's affections. She adores her pet tortoise so much and cannot seem to get enough of it. She carries it around with her all over the house, keeps it in a comfortable little hut made just for it, feeds it all sorts of nice vegetables, and says nice...

Roald Dahl is one of my most favorite children's authors ever. Today I borrowed this lovely book from my niece to read and thoroughly enjoyed reading it. This is a story of a brave fox, his wife and their 4 baby foxes. They live happily under a tree in the jungle by a village. Mr. Fox takes good care of his little family by going to the village farms and bringing food from their by stealing hens, turkeys and geese. In fact, there happen to be three particular not so gentle men of whose farms Mr. Fox takes a liking to. They are called Boggis, Bunce and Bean. And these people, horrible as they are, do not approve of this even a little bit. Mr. Fox, however, proves to be a very clever young fellow and manages to take what he wants from them all the same. After some stealing sessions though, their patience fails them and they decide to hunt Mr. Fox down by surrounded his hole under the tree. Fox manages to evade all three of them and goes back deep into his hole but this makes them...

For those of you who don't know Urdu, this book claims to have the 13 best Short stories by Prem Chand, the famous Hindu Urdu writer of the Subcontinent. Following is the list of stories included in the book: 1. Kaffan 2. Sila e Matam 3. Baray Ghar ki Beti 4. Haj e Akbar 5. Nayi Biwi 6. Zaad e Rah 7. Do Bel 8. Eid Gah 9. Burhi Kaki 10. Sawa Seer Gehun 11. Insaan ki Qeemat 12. Chori 13. Pos ki Rat Prem Chand is one of those writers who exhibit the quality of writing both complox and obscure topics as well as about simple things in life simultaneously. And because of this reason, his writing is quite unpredictable. Most of his stories included in this collection have simple themes related to daily household issues faced by people which makes reading this book very interesting. He often makes the usual skirmishes between family members, whether they be husband or wife or brothers or sisters, the subject of his tales. Reading it makes you realize how good of an ob...