By Yumna Haroon

The Literature Festival

  Books. Novels. Suspense Series. Crowd, Music, hot tea, pizza, more books. Food, did I mention free tea? And coke too. But books and tea: the two loves of my life!

  I was surprised, there were actually decent people at the Karachi Literature Festival and we didn’t pay for entering the hotel, I never knew Beach Luxury could be that kind, I love books. Period. There were loads of them there! Books and Authors. (Rings a bell?)

   And then I saw it, that book, the book I was craving for, I forgot all about the assignment I was given, about the session I was to attend, about my friends, even about the free coke. I saw Dan Brown’s “Inferno”. It took the last ounce of my willpower not to start licking it (literally). My friend took a picture of me with it, I was alrerady reading it on my way back