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Book Review : What The Body Remembers

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, culture and society, doubleday, india, random_house, review, south-asian, women | Comments Off on Book Review : What The Body Remembers

[amazon_link id=”0385496052″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : What The Body Remembers Author : Shauna Singh Baldwin Genre : South-Asian Publisher : Doubleday (Random House) Pages : 471 Rating : 4/5 While I’ve read many female-centric desi novels, I’ve read very few stories of women during partition, and even fewer from Punjabi writers. In WTBR, there […]

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DAYA’s Free Seminar on Anger Management

By amodini Posted in 2012, culture and society, women | Comments Off on DAYA’s Free Seminar on Anger Management

[amazon_link id=”1886298041″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]For folks in Houston here is a free seminar on Anger Management this Saturday, courtesy DAYA: Don’t Cry Foul, Learn to Dodge Life’s Curve Balls A seminar to help men and women play fair in the face of anger Saturday, September 15, 2012 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Location: Hilton […]

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Truth alone triumphs . . .

By amodini Posted in 2012, culture and society, india, recommended, tv, women | 3 Comments »

I’ve been watching Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate regularly since it started. Public figures and Bollywood stars often shy away from telling it like it is so I can’t appreciate him enough for stepping up and speaking up about various ills so ingrained in Indian society. He has so far done shows on various issues like […]

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Book Review : Harmless as Doves

By amodini Posted in 2012, 4_star_rating, arc, books, crime, culture and society, penguin_books, recommended, review | Comments Off on Book Review : Harmless as Doves

[amazon_link id=”0452297869″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Harmless as Doves Author : P. L. Gaus Genre : Mystery Pages : 224 Publisher : Plume Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Bishop Leon Shetler is the religious leader of his people, a small Amish community. His placid serene world is upset one day when an […]

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Book Review : A Lady Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar

By amodini Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, bloomsbury, books, culture and society, historical, netgalley, review, women | 1 Comment »

[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 : The Lilac House

By amodini Posted in 4_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, india, literature, macmillan, netgalley, recommended, south-asian, st_martins_press, women | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”031260677X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Lilac House Author : Anita Nair Genre : Literary/South Asian Publisher : St. Martins Griffin Pages : 352 Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Meera is a smart society wife and cookbook author, caught up in tending to her family. She lives with husband Giri, son […]

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Book Review : Accidents of Providence

By amodini Posted in 2012, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, historical, houghton_mifflin_harcourt, recommended, review, women | 2 Comments »

[amazon_link id=”0547490801″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Accidents of Providence Author : Stacia M. Brown Genre : Historical Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating 3.5/5 “Accidents of Providence” is a work of fiction set in the Cromwellian era of 1649, with characters based on some historical figures. In it Ms. Brown […]

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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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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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