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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)

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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2012 Book Reading Challenges

I have a new Kindle now, and LOVE it. Reading on the iPad is also fun – I use it on night mode, so that reduces the glare. But the Kindle is zero glare, very much like a book, and oh-so-light. Fits right in the palm of my hand (yes, I have a large palm […]

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2011 : The Year in Review

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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My First Sunday Salon Post !

This is my first Sunday Salon post (see title of post; I felt like adding a few more exclamation marks, and some audio of a blaring trumpet, but didn’t :-)), and I really like the idea of summing up my Reading Week. Virtual Salon it might be, but how nice to be able to read […]

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And here it comes!

The great weather I mean. After that harsh, and what felt like ever-long Texas drought, it is good to step out in the morning and see the outside temperature lower than that inside the house. It’s started getting cooler since the end of September, and I’m looking forward to the evening walks and lake-side bike-rides. […]

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Moving from Blogger to WordPress

I recently moved both my blogger blogs to self-hosted WordPress installs. My movie review blog Amodini’s movie reviews which is now at : http://film.fridaynirvana.com used to be at http://hindimoviereviews.blogspot.com. and this blog used to be at http://reviewroom.blogspot.com. Now, just so I don’t forget all the steps involved and in the hope that this might help […]

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Sticky Post : Welcome to Review Room’s new home !

If you are being redirected here from Blogger, don’t panic. This is the same old Review Room at a new web address – FridayNirvana. Feed subscribers, you are getting new content already. Update your bookmarks please, and scroll down for regular programming. Check back often !

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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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I won !

Earlier I’d posted an entry for the Favorite Female Character contest at Women’s Web. This was fun to write, since I do enjoy the series and Mma Ramotswe is the main reason the series is what it is. If you haven’t read these wonderful books yet, do go find them; they are well-worth the time. I […]

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