Life of a bookworm

PERIOD. IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME AUTHOR: EMMA BARNETT PUBLISHER: HARPERCOLLINS GENRE: BIOGRAPHY/GENDER STUDIES/NON-FICTION PUBLICATION DATE: 19th August 2019 FORMAT: PAPERBACK PAGES COUNT: 287 GOODREADS RATING: 4.07/5 ( 225 Ratings) MY RATING: 4/5 'Girls are superheroes. Who else could bleed for a week and not die?'     BLURB:   (Taken From Amazon) Emma loathes her period. Really, she does. But there’s something she loathes even more: not being able to talk about it. Freely, funnily and honestly. Without men and women wrinkling their noses as if she’s pulled her tampon out and offered it as an hors d'oeuvre.  But somehow, despite women having had periods since the dawn of time, we’ve totally clammed up on anything to do with menstruation. Why, oh why, would we rather say ‘Auntie Flo’ than ‘period’? why, in the 21st century, are periods still seen as icky? Why are we still so ignorant about such a fundamental bodily process?...

FIFTH EDITION OF APEEJAY BANGLA SAHITYA UTSOB COMMENCES AT JORASANKO THAKUR BARI Kolkata, 22 nd November 2019:     The fifth edition of Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob was inaugurated yesterday at Jorasankho Thakurbari, the birthplace of Gurudev Tagore in the distinguished presence of eminent writers Shankha Ghosh; Professor Syed Manjurul Islam and editor, publisher Majharul Islam from Bangladesh and Pracheta Gupta along with Prof. Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Vice Chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University; Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay, MD Patra Bharati Group of Publications and Swagat Sengupta, Director Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob and CEO Apeejay Oxford Bookstores. ABSU is presented in association with Patra Bharati Group and supported by Rabindra Bharati University.  The inauguration was preceded by a one-of-a-kind literary discussion with different Facebook Page Groups who work towards promoting new-age Bangla literature in the society; and a p...