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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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Book Review : How It All Began

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4.5_star_rating, arc, books, contemporary, culture and society, humor, lovely things, must read, nostalgia, penguin_books, recommended, review, viking_books, wit | 1 Comment »

[amazon_link id=”0670023442″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : How It All Began Author : Penelope Lively Genre : Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Viking Pages : 229 Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 4.5/5 Dame Penelope Lively’s “How it all began” starts off with a violent mugging. A frail old schoolteacher Charlotte Rainsford is pushed to the […]

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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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Book Review : Three Day Town

By amodini Posted in 2011, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, crime, hachette, mystery, netgalley, recommended, review, series, women | Comments Off on Book Review : Three Day Town

[amazon_link id=”0446555789″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Three Day Town Author : Margaret Maron Genre : Mystery Publisher : Grand Central Publishing Pages : 288 Source : NetGalley / Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Given my love for mysteries, I’ve had friends recommend Margaret Maron to me more than once. I’ve read one of her […]

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Book Review : The Artist of Disappearance

By amodini Posted in 2011, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, evocative, houghton_mifflin_harcourt, india, literature, netgalley, nostalgia, recommended, review | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0547577451″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Artist of Disappearance Author : Anita Desai Pages : 176 Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rating : 3.5/5 Source : NetGalley / Publisher ARC Anita Desai’s latest book “Artist of Disappearance” is composed of three novellas. Each is about art and the artist, and presents a problem […]

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Book Review : Magebane

By amodini Posted in 2011, 3_star_rating, arc, books, imaginative, penguin_books, review, sci-fi, steampunk | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”075640679X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Magebane Author : Lee Arthur Chane Genre : Sci-fi / Steampunk Publisher : DAW Pages : 488 (ARC) Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 3/5 Magebane is a steampunk-meets magic-meets science kind of a book. I was fairly intrigued reading the preview material for it. The story is […]

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Book Review: Children of Paranoia

By amodini Posted in 2011, 4.5_star_rating, arc, books, crime, culture and society, dystopian, must read, penguin_books, recommended, review, series | 5 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0525952373″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Children of Paranoia Author : Trevor Shane Publisher : Dutton Genre : Dystopian Thriller Release Date : September 8, 2011 Source : Publisher ARC Pages : 371 Rating : 4.5/5 There is a war on and Joseph is in the thick of it. It’s Us vs. Them with […]

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My First Sunday Salon Post !

By amodini Posted in 2011, arc, blog, books, of me, status, sunday salon | 1 Comment »

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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