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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 : Rally Around the Corpse by Hy Conrad

By amodini Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, crime, mystery, review | 4 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0983735042″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Rally Around the Corpse Author : Hy Conrad Genre : Mystery Pages : 348 Publisher : Seven Realms Publishing Source : Author/Virtual Author Book Tours Rating : 3.5/5 Amy Abel and her tenacious mother Fanny, owners of Abel adventures, run a mystery tour, a travel tour with a […]

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Completed : 2012 NetGalley Reading Challenge

By amodini Posted in 2012, books, challenge, ebooks, lists, netgalley, of me, review, status | Comments Off on Completed : 2012 NetGalley Reading Challenge

I’ve finished my NetGalley Reading Challenge hosted by Red House Books! Again, checking in 2013 to list out all the books read for it. I elected to read between 11-20 books, and I’ve read 20 books so far! Goal : 11-20 Read so far: 20 The Golden Scales Pure Midnight in Austenland Last Chance Beauty […]

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50-50 Challenge : Completion (sort-of)

By amodini Posted in 2012, books, challenge, movies, new books, of me, review, status | Comments Off on 50-50 Challenge : Completion (sort-of)

So, I signed up for this sometime this year. It is hosted by these good folks and the rules are simple: Commit to reading 50 books and watching 50 movies in the next year, 2012. The year is ending shortly, so how did I do ? MOVIES I’ve seen 50 for sure, and just for […]

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Book Review : Great North Road by Peter F. Hamilton

By amodini Posted in 2.5_star_rating, 2012, arc, books, crime, ebooks, imaginative, mystery, netgalley, new books, review, sci-fi, tor | 1 Comment »

[amazon_link id=”034552666X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Great North Road Author : Peter F. Hamilton Genre : Sci-fi, Mystery Publisher : Tor Pages : 1089 Source : Netgalley/ Publisher ARC Rating : 2.5/5 Before I requested this book on NetGalley I did a quick net lookup on Peter Hamilton – I hadn’t read him before. […]

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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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Book Review : Bowl of Heaven

By amodini Posted in 2.5_star_rating, 2012, arc, books, netgalley, review, sci-fi, tor | Comments Off on Book Review : Bowl of Heaven

[amazon_link id=”0765328410″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Bowl of Heaven Author : Gregory Benford and Larry Niven Genre : Science fiction Publisher : Tor Pages : 416 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 2.5/5 A human spaceship, the SunSeeker, on it’s journey to a planet called Glory, comes across a strange object – a large […]

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Book Review : Somebody to love

By amodini Posted in 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, chick-lit, harlequin, recommended, review, romance | Comments Off on Book Review : Somebody to love

[amazon_link id=”0373776586″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Somebody to love Author : Kristan Higgins Genre : Romance Publisher : Harlequin Pages : 432 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 My one guilty pleasure : romance. I don’t read or review them often enough because one is very much like the other – the hero […]

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Book Review : In a Fix

By amodini Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, fantasy, netgalley, new books, review, tor | Comments Off on Book Review : In a Fix

[amazon_link id=”0765331802″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : In a Fix (Ciel Hannigan Series) Author : Linda Grimes Genre : Fantasy Publisher : Tor Pages : 336 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Ciel Halligan is an “aura adaptor”, a person with the very special ability to morph into someone else. She uses this to […]

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Book Review : Ironskin

By amodini Posted in 2012, 3_star_rating, arc, books, fantasy, netgalley, new books, review, steampunk, tor | 1 Comment »

[amazon_link id=”0765330598″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Ironskin Author : Tina Connolly Genre : Fantasy Publisher : Tor Pages : 304 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3/5 Ironskin is of the Victorian-steampunk genre, so it is situated in a time where motor-cars and cameras do exist, but are referenced to as though they were […]

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