[amazon_link id=”0385342675″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : I’ll Take What She Has Author : Samantha Wilde Genre : Women’s Fiction Publisher : Bantam Pages : 418 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.8/5 Nora and Annie, both living at Dixbie, a residential school campus, are best friends. Nora Galusha is a teacher, who desperately wants […]
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Book Review : I’ll Take What She Has by Samantha Wilde
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Posted in 2013, 4_star_rating, arc, bantam, books, contemporary, culture and society, random_house, review, women |
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Book Review : The Pretty One by Lucinda Rosenfeld
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Posted in 2013, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, contemporary, little_brown, netgalley, review, women |
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[amazon_link id=”0316213551″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Pretty One Author : Lucinda Rosenfield Genre : Women’s fiction Publisher : Atria Books Pages : 320 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 Olympia (Pia) is the middle sister of three. She is the pretty, artsy one. Imperia or Perri is the eldest – the perfectionist […]
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Posted in 2011, books, contemporary, literature, macmillan, review |
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[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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Posted in 2012, 4.5_star_rating, books, contemporary, harpercollins, india, must read, recommended, review, south-asian, usa, women |
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[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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Posted in 2.5_star_rating, 2012, books, chick-lit, contemporary, hachette, review, romance |
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[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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Golden Scales
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Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, bloomsbury, books, contemporary, crime, culture and society, literature, must read, netgalley, recommended, review, women |
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[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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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 |
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[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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