[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 : A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry
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Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, mystery, netgalley, random_house, review, women |
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Book Review : A Fistful of Collars by Spencer Quinn
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[amazon_link id=”1451665164″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : A Fistful of Collars Author : Spencer Quinn Genre : Mystery Publisher : Atria Books Pages : 320 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.8/5 This is my first Chet-and-Bernie mystery so I didn’t really know what to expect. If you haven’t read one of the books from […]
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Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, culture and society, doubleday, india, random_house, review, south-asian, women |
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[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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection
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Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, books, favorites, must read, pantheon_books, random_house, recommended, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”0307378403″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection Author : Alexander McCall Smith Genre : Contemporary Publisher : Pantheon Pages : 257 Source : Library Rating : 4/5 The 13th book in the series, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection has Mma Ramotswe caught up again in a bunch of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Harmless as Doves
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Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, books, crime, culture and society, penguin_books, recommended, review |
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[amazon_link id=”0452297869″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Harmless as Doves Author : P. L. Gaus Genre : Mystery Pages : 224 Publisher : Plume Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Bishop Leon Shetler is the religious leader of his people, a small Amish community. His placid serene world is upset one day when an […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Earth Unaware
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Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, books, recommended, review, sci-fi, series, tor |
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[amazon_link id=”0765329042″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Earth Unawares Author : Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston Genre : Sci-fi Pages : 368 Publisher : Tor Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow are two of my favorite sci-fi books. Although I haven’t been able to move further into the series […]
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[amazon_link id=”0316128155″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Exogene Author : T.C. McCarthy Genre : War/Sci-fi Publisher : Hachette Pages : 401 Source : Publisher/NetGalley ARC Rating : 4/5 I elected to read this book because I thought it sci-fi. And while there is sci-fi, Exogene reads more like a war novel. It is set in […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Sisters Brothers
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Posted in 2011, 4_star_rating, books, crime, harpercollins, humor, literature, must read, poetry, recommended, review |
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[amazon_link id=”B004CFA91Y” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Sisters Brothers Author : Patrick DeWitt Genre : Western Publisher : HarperCollins Pages : 325 Rating 4/5 I generally do not read westerns; this is my first. And having said that that, I will say that this is not a traditional western, because it seems quite “literary”. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Lilac House
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Posted in 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, india, literature, macmillan, netgalley, recommended, south-asian, st_martins_press, women |
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[amazon_link id=”031260677X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Lilac House Author : Anita Nair Genre : Literary/South Asian Publisher : St. Martins Griffin Pages : 352 Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Meera is a smart society wife and cookbook author, caught up in tending to her family. She lives with husband Giri, son […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
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Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, books, humor, literature, penguin_books, politics, recommended, review, satire, viking_books |
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[amazon_link id=”0670023191″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant Author : Alex Gilvarry Genre : Contemporary Publisher : Viking Source : Publisher ARC Pages : 302 Rating : 4/5 This book is told to us memoir style, by Boyet R. Hernandez, fashion designer. Hailing from a family of doctors, Boy […]
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