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Book Review : A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar

[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 […]

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Book Review : Imperfect Bliss

[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. […]

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New Books : Every Day Every Hour by Natasa Dragnic

[amazon_link id=”0670023507″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]This book, a translation of the original was published last month. Here is a little about it (per publisher mail): Every Day, Every Hour is a debut novel from a fresh, new international voice in literature, Nataša Dragnić with faithfully done translation by Liesl Schillinger. Every Day, Every Hour is […]

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Book Review : The Age of Miracles

[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 […]

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Book Review : Little Night by Luanne Rice

[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 […]

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New Books : The Orphanmaster by Jean Zimmerman

[amazon_link id=”0670023647″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Historical thriller “The Orphanmaster” releases June 19th. Here is an interview with the author : You’ve had considerable success as a writer of nonfiction. How did it feel to make the transition to fiction? I’ve always considered it an incredible privilege to write nonfiction, as you get to snoop in […]

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Wordless Wednesdays #9

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Book Review : Exogene

[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 […]

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New Books : Little Night by Luanne Rice

I look forward to reading and reviewing Little Night by Luanne Rice. It releases June 5th and deals with themes of domestic violence and how it affects the entire family. In winter 2011, Luanne interviewed women whose lives have been touched by abuse. Three women told their stories on camera, including Luanne, who was in an […]

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Book Review : The Invitation

[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 […]

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