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Book Review : The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari & Robert Hillman

By amodini Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, literature, penguin_books, vikingbooks | Comments Off on Book Review : The Honey Thief by Najaf Mazari & Robert Hillman

[amazon_link id=”B008EKMBD2″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Honey Thief Author : Najaf Mazari, Robert Hillman Genre : Literary / Folklore Publisher : Viking Pages : 290 Source : Publisher Rating : 4/5 The Honey Thief is about the Hazara people of Afghanistan. My interest in this book was piqued when I remembered that Hassan, […]

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Book Review : The Caretaker by A.X.Ahmad

By amodini Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, books, culture and society, desi, india, netgalley, review, south-asian, st_martins_press, thriller, usa | Comments Off on Book Review : The Caretaker by A.X.Ahmad

[amazon_link id=”1250016843″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Caretaker Author : A.X.Ahmad Genre : Thriller Publisher : Minotaur Books (St. Martin’s Press) Pages : 304 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Instead of the bookish, intellectual characters that we see in diaspora stories, “The Caretaker” has as its protagonist a desi Jason Bourne like […]

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Book Review : The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran

By amodini Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, india, netgalley, random_house, recommended, review, south-asian | Comments Off on Book Review : The Hope Factory by Lavanya Sankaran

[amazon_link id=”0385338198″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Hope Factory Author : Lavanya Sankaran Genre : Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Dial Press Pages : 384 Source : Netgalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 4.2/5 This book is the story of two main protagonists – Anand K. Murthy who runs his own business, and Kamala, a […]

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Audiobook Review : Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility (by Jane Austen)

By amodini Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, audiobook, books, culture and society, favorites, historical, literature, lovely things, movies, recommended, review, romance, women | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0786118229″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Although my foray into audio-books started as an attempt to make my walks more interesting and to tempt me to go walking even, I have to say that I am hooked. And for that I credit the narrators. I’ve been lucky enough to listen to three of the best, Frederick […]

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Best Books of 2012

By amodini Posted in 2012, books, culture and society, dystopian, imaginative, lists, lovely things, mini-review, must read, mystery, recommended, sci-fi | Comments Off on Best Books of 2012

I read a bunch of books in 2012, but here are three of the best: [amazon_link id=”0812982940″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]- Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker : You’d think that sci-fi and coming-of-age genres wouldn’t mix very well, but they do. The book is based on a scientific phenomena – the shifting of […]

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Book Review : I’ll Take What She Has by Samantha Wilde

By amodini Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, bantam, books, contemporary, culture and society, random_house, review, women | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0385342675″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : I’ll Take What She Has Author : Samantha Wilde Genre : Women’s Fiction Publisher : Bantam Pages : 418 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.8/5 Nora and Annie, both living at Dixbie, a residential school campus, are best friends. Nora Galusha is a teacher, who desperately wants […]

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Book review : The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

By amodini Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, books, culture and society, netgalley, random_house, recommended, review, romance, sci-fi, women | Comments Off on Book review : The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord

[amazon_link id=”0345534050″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Best of All Possible Worlds Author : Karen Lord Genre : Science Fiction/ Romance Publisher : Del Rey Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Pages : 320 Rating : 3.5/5 Karen Lord’s new sci-fi novel is set in the future when humans have colonized new planets. When the planet […]

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Book Review : A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry

By amodini Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, mystery, netgalley, random_house, review, women | Comments Off on Book Review : A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry

[amazon_link id=”0307718417″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : A Cold and Lonely Place Author : Sara J. Henry Genre : Mystery Publisher : Crown/Random House Pages : 304 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Troy Chance is a journalist at a small newspaper in Saranac Lake, in the cold snow-filled Adirondack mountain country of New […]

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Book Review : What The Body Remembers

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, culture and society, doubleday, india, random_house, review, south-asian, women | Comments Off on Book Review : What The Body Remembers

[amazon_link id=”0385496052″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : What The Body Remembers Author : Shauna Singh Baldwin Genre : South-Asian Publisher : Doubleday (Random House) Pages : 471 Rating : 4/5 While I’ve read many female-centric desi novels, I’ve read very few stories of women during partition, and even fewer from Punjabi writers. In WTBR, there […]

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DAYA’s Free Seminar on Anger Management

By amodini Posted in 2012, culture and society, women | Comments Off on DAYA’s Free Seminar on Anger Management

[amazon_link id=”1886298041″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]For folks in Houston here is a free seminar on Anger Management this Saturday, courtesy DAYA: Don’t Cry Foul, Learn to Dodge Life’s Curve Balls A seminar to help men and women play fair in the face of anger Saturday, September 15, 2012 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Location: Hilton […]

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