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Book Review : The Marriage Plot

By amodini Posted in 2011, books, contemporary, literature, macmillan, review | Comments Off on Book Review : The Marriage Plot

[amazon_link id=”0374203059″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Marriage Plot Author : Jeffrey Eugenides Genre : Literary Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pages: 416 Rating : No rating – did not finish book This is kind of a short review since I couldn’t finish the book. I have stopped on page 213, after doggedly slogging […]

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Sunday Salon : Reading Challenge Countdown

By amodini Posted in 2012, arc, books, challenge, lists, netgalley, review, sunday salon | Comments Off on Sunday Salon : Reading Challenge Countdown

Checking in this Sunday to keep an up-to-date count of all the books read for my Reading Challenges. I keep forgetting to link the reviews up at the host’s site, so I’ll catch them up here. So far I have read the following :   GoodReads Challenge Goal : 20 Read : 10 (See badge […]

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Book Review : State of Wonder

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4.5_star_rating, books, contemporary, harpercollins, india, must read, recommended, review, south-asian, usa, women | 4 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0062049801″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : State of Wonder Author : Ann Patchett Genre : Contemporary Publisher : HarperCollins Pages : 353 Rating : 4.5/5 Ann Patchett’s most recent novel has as it’s stoic heroine Marina Singh, an Indian-American woman. A doctor turned researcher Dr. Singh, the daughter of an American mother and an […]

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Book Review : Accidents of Providence

By amodini Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, historical, houghton_mifflin_harcourt, recommended, review, women | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0547490801″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Accidents of Providence Author : Stacia M. Brown Genre : Historical Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating 3.5/5 “Accidents of Providence” is a work of fiction set in the Cromwellian era of 1649, with characters based on some historical figures. In it Ms. Brown […]

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Book Review : Midnight in Austenland

By amodini Posted in 2012, 3_star_rating, arc, bloomsbury, books, chick-lit, humor, netgalley, review, wit, women | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”1608196259″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Midnight in Austenland Author : Shannon Hale Genre : Romance/Mystery Publisher : Bloomsbury Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3/5 I decided to read this book, because my daughter has read a number of Hale’s YA books and recommended her, when I asked her about the author. Also […]

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Book Review : Last Chance Beauty Queen

By amodini Posted in 2.5_star_rating, 2012, books, chick-lit, contemporary, hachette, review, romance | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0446576085″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Last Chance Beauty Queen Author : Hope Ramsay Publisher : Grand Central Publishing Genre : Romance Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 2.5/5 British Lord Hugh DeBracy comes to America to setup his textile machinery factory. He requires the assistance of Caroline Rocky Rhodes to persuade a land-owner […]

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Book Review : From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, books, humor, literature, penguin_books, politics, recommended, review, satire, viking_books | 3 Comments »

[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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Book Review : The Golden Scales

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, bloomsbury, books, contemporary, crime, culture and society, literature, must read, netgalley, recommended, review, women | Comments Off on Book Review : The Golden Scales

[amazon_link id=”1608197948″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Golden Scales Author : Parker Bilal Genre : Mystery Pages : 416 Publisher : Bloomsbury Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 I decided to read this book because I quite like mysteries situated in different cultures (like Finding Nouf), the more detail of the culture and the […]

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2012 NetGalley Reading Challenge

By amodini Posted in 2012, arc, blog, books, challenge, fun stuff, lists, netgalley, review, web | Comments Off on 2012 NetGalley Reading Challenge

Yes, another Challenge for 2012 (I’ve already signed up for three)! I’m on a roll! This one is by Emily from Red House Books, yes the very same blogger who hosts the NetGalley Month Read-a-thons. I’m picking the Green Star level which means I will read (and review) 11-20 NetGalley books. Besides the books I listed […]

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Book Review : Pure

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, dystopian, fantasy, hachette, imaginative, netgalley, recommended, review, sci-fi | 5 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”1455503061″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Pure Author : Julianna Baggott Genre : Dystopian/Horror Pages : 448 Publisher : Grand Central Publishing Source : NetGalley Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Pure is not your ordinary dystopian novel, it treads into the horror category. It is a story of a bleak future, one where the […]

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