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My Top 5 Books of 2013

By amodini Posted in 2013, 2014, books, crime, dundurn, favorites, harlequin, historical, humor, lists, netgalley, penguin_books, random_house, recommended, romance, women, writers_coffee_shop | Comments Off on My Top 5 Books of 2013

[amazon_link id=”0143124544″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]I resolved to read at least 30 books in 2013, and I’ve read (or listened to) 39! Yay, Well Done Me, etc. etc. You have probably read my reviews on all of them here, on Goodreads and on my Facebook page 🙂 . In no particular order then, here are […]

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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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Book Review : The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, books, favorites, must read, pantheon_books, random_house, recommended, review, women | Comments Off on Book Review : The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

[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 […]

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2011 : The Year in Review

By amodini Posted in 2011, arc, blog, books, challenge, favorites, fun stuff, lists, lovely things, netgalley, of me, review, sunday salon | 3 Comments »

2011 was the year of the ARC. I read more Advance Reviewer Copies than the previous years, so much so that I barely got to my own Reading List! I entered 2 Reading Challenges and got  started on the Sunday Salon Posts. I completed the GoodReads 2011 Reading Challenge (Goal of 15 books) and Stainless […]

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Summer reading for antsy little boys

By amodini Posted in books, favorites, humor, imaginative, kids, lists, recommended, review, wit | Comments Off on Summer reading for antsy little boys

Summer is here, and schools are about to close, giving us parents the opportunity to be the sole entertainers for our little bundles of joy for a whole three months. Yippee-ki-yay! as someone would say. Needless to say I am on the lookout for wonderful things for them to do (read fun for them and […]

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