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2012 ARC Reading Challenge

Since I read lots of ARCs last year, this Challenge is a must-do for me. This is hosted by So Many Precious Books, So Little Time. I’m going for the Silver Level – read and review 24 ARCs! Here are the ARCs in my list so far (the first 3 I’ve read/currently reading – the […]

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Book Review : How It All Began

[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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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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Tejaswee Rao Blogging Awards announced . . .

I made a mention of these Awards here. The results were announced in 3 batches, and 4 of my posts won ! Yay! Here are the ones that did : – The Last Bastion – No Sex education for us. We’re Indian. – Of Ghar-jamai jokes and their side-effects – Indian television and women Here are […]

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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

[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

[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

[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 !

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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