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Words to remember: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

By amodini Posted in books, culture and society, fun stuff, humor, lovely things, recommended, series, wit | Comments Off on Words to remember: The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party

[amazon_link id=”030737839X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ] [/amazon_link]I’ve finished reading the most recent book of the “No. 1 ladies Detective” series. Of course, it is no secret that I am a super huge fan of Smith’s work and Mma Precious Ramotswe is my favorite female fictional character. Smith weaves truly interesting tales around his main characters […]

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Book Review : The Cut

By amodini Posted in 2011, 3_star_rating, arc, books, crime, little_brown | Comments Off on Book Review : The Cut

[amazon_link id=”0316078425″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Author : George Pelecanos Genre : Mystery/Crime/Thriller Publisher : Little, Brown and Company Rating : 3/5 Source : NetGalley Publisher ARC “The Cut” is a police procedural style novel, in which it’s Iraqi war vet protagonist Spero Lucas does investigative work for a price; his finding fee is 40%. Lucas […]

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R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril Reading Challenge

By amodini Posted in 2011, arc, blog, books, challenge, fun stuff, mystery | 5 Comments »

Yes, my first book challenge ever! This R.I.P VI is hosted by Stainless Steel Droppings. In case you haven’t noticed there is a thriving Book Blogger community on the net, and I got to hear of this challenge via A Room of One’s Own via S.Krishna’s Books. Anyway long story short, I have signed up […]

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Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

By amodini Posted in 2011, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, general fiction, historical, literature, nostalgia, penguin_books, viking_books | 1 Comment »

[amazon_link id=”0670022691″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Rules of Civility Author : Amor Towles Genre : Historical Pages : 333 (Hardcover) Publisher : Viking (Penguin Books) Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5   Katey Kontent and Eve Ross are great friends. They room together and have come to New York city for work – […]

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Book Review : 22 Britannia Road

By amodini Posted in 2011, 4_star_rating, arc, books, historical, pamela_dorman_books, penguin_books, recommended | Comments Off on Book Review : 22 Britannia Road

[amazon_link id=”B004IYIT0C” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : 22 Britannia Read Author : Amanda Hodgkinson Publisher : Pamela Dorman Books (Viking) Genre : Historical Pages : 321 (Hardcover) Rating : 4/5 Source : Publisher ARC Silvana and Janusz are a young newly married Polish couple. When Silvana becomes pregnant, they move to Warsaw, anticipating a happy […]

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Book Review – Q: A Novel

By amodini Posted in 2011, 4.5_star_rating, arc, books, harpercollins, lovely things, must read, netgalley, recommended, review, sci-fi, time-travel | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0062015834″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title – Q: A Novel Author : Evan Mandery Genre : Contemporary Fiction Publisher : Harper Collins Pages : 368 Rating : 4.5/5 Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC If you knew what your future had in store would you change the present to make it better ? Quite the question, isn’t […]

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Book Review : And only to deceive

By amodini Posted in 3_star_rating, books, harpercollins, historical, mystery, review, women | Comments Off on Book Review : And only to deceive

[amazon_link id=”B002PJ4IIO” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : And only to decieve Author : Tasha Alexander Publisher : William Morrow Genre : Historical fiction, Mystery Rating : 3/5 Lady Emily Ashton is newly widowed. Having been married to her husband wealthy Lord Philip Ashton only a short while before his death in Africa, she knows very […]

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Book Review : Orbit

By amodini Posted in 3.5_star_rating, books, recommended, review, sci-fi, simon_schuster, usa | 1 Comment »

[amazon_link id=”1451631715″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Orbit Author : John J. Nance Genre : Science Fiction Rating : 3.5/5 It was a coincidence that I was reading this book about the same time as the recent Atlantis mission was going through. Ironical really that I was reading about the future of space travel just […]

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Book Review : One of our Thursdays is missing

By amodini Posted in 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, penguin_books, viking_books | 1 Comment »

Book : One of our Thursdays is missing Author : Jasper Fforde Genre : Sci-fi, Fantasy Publisher : Viking Rating : 3.5/5 Source : Publisher ARC “One of our Thursdays is missing” is the sixth book of the Thursday Next series. I read the first and adored it; it seemed like the perfect mix of […]

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How to get smart : Bring BQC back

By amodini Posted in books, education, fun stuff, india, learning, linktastic, media, south-asian, tv | Comments Off on How to get smart : Bring BQC back

This is a Google-dependent world. What you don’t know is on the World Wide Web, and it’s yours for the searching. And when all knowledge is right there at your fingertips, available with a few taps on the keyboard and a few clicks of the mouse, is there then, any need to store it in […]

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