[amazon_link id=”0307959945″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Dog Stars Author : Peter Heller Genre : Dystopian Publisher : Knopf Pages : 336 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4.5/5 It’s a dystopian world out there. And there are few survivors, most of the world’s population and wildlife having succumbed to a fatal flu. Those that […]
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Book Review : Dog Stars by Peter Heller
By amodini
Posted in 2012, 4.5_star_rating, arc, books, dystopian, knopf, must read, random_house, recommended, review |
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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 |
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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 […]
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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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar
By amodini
Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, bloomsbury, books, culture and society, historical, netgalley, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”1608198111″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar Author : Suzanne Joinson Genre : Women’s Publisher : Bloomsbury Pages : 384 Rating : 3.5/5 The book has two parallel tracks, each running independently until the later half of the book where we begin to glimpse tenuous links. In the first […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Imperfect Bliss
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Posted in 2.5_star_rating, 2012, arc, atria_books, chick-lit, netgalley, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”1451623828″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Imperfect Bliss Author : Susan Fales-Hill Genre : Chick Lit Pages : 304 Publisher : Atria Books Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 2.5/5 Imperfect Bliss is supposed to be based upon Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and the reality television show The Bachelorette. So we have Mr. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Age of Miracles
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Posted in 2012, 4.5_star_rating, arc, dystopian, must read, netgalley, random_house, recommended, review, sci-fi |
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[amazon_link id=”0812992970″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Age of Miracles Author : Karen Thompson Walker Genre : Dystopian/Sci-fi Publisher : Random House Pages : 289 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4.5/5 Lately I’ve been reading books which I would normally have not read – you think the book is of a particular genre […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Little Night by Luanne Rice
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Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, pamela_dorman_books, recommended, review, viking_books, women |
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[amazon_link id=”0670023566″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Little Night Author : Luanne Rice Genre : Women’s Fiction Publisher : Pamela Dorman Books (Viking) Pages : 321 Source : Publisher Rating : 3.5/5 Clare has been cut off from her once close sister Anne for more than 20 years. She has also served 2 years for […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Invitation
By amodini
Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, desi, india, netgalley, review, south-asian, usa, women, wwnorton |
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[amazon_link id=”0393081605″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Invitation Author : Anne Cherian Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company Pages : 304 Source : Publisher/Netgalley ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Vikram (“Vic”) Jha, Lali, Jay and Frances were at UCLA together in the 1970s. Now they live in different cities, and have different lives. Jay […]
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”. […]
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