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Archive for April, 2011

“The Help” movie

By amodini Posted in 2011, books, hollywood, movies, preview, women | 1 Comment »

Kathryn Stockett’s best-seller “The Help” is being made into a movie. It will be in theatres this August. It was such a lovely book,that I look forward to the film – hopefully it will be as good or better. Here’s a first look :

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Book Review : Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree

By amodini Posted in 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, penguin_books, viking_books | Comments Off on Book Review : Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree

Title : Aunt Dimity and the Family TreeAuthor : Nancy AthertonGenre : Mystery Publisher : Viking AdultPages : 240Rating : 3.5/5Source : Publisher ARC Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree is the 16th book of the Aunt Dimity series. Aunt Dimity, if you haven’t read any of these books before, is a ghost who speaks […]

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Book Review : The Track of Sand

By amodini Posted in 4_star_rating, arc, books, penguin_books | 1 Comment »

Title : The Track of SandAuthor : Andrea CamilleriPublisher : Penguin Genre : Crime / MysteryPages : 258Rating : 4/5Source : Publisher ARC They tell me that Camilleri is the author of best-sellers, but I was skeptical to say the least, since this book is a translation of the Italian original, and I think translations […]

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Kid-safe news

By amodini Posted in education, kids, learning, news, of me | Comments Off on Kid-safe news

I was mentioning to my kids the other day that they should be reading world news, since really you should know what’s going on outside your corner of the world. We don’t subscribe to a newspaper so the news getting would be all online.And now that I think of it, my remembrances of childhood morning […]

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Book Review : Instruments of Darkness

By amodini Posted in 4_star_rating, arc, books, crime, mystery, pamela_dorman_books, penguin_books, recommended, review | Comments Off on Book Review : Instruments of Darkness

Title : Instruments of DarknessAuthor : Imogen RobertsonGenre : Historical MysteryPublisher : Pamela Dorman BooksPages : 384Rating : 4/5Source : Publisher ARC I started on Imogen Robertson’s “Instruments of Darkness” having had no prior introduction to her writing or work. The jacket flap promised a dark, intriguing mystery and I’m glad to report that this […]

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