[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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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 |
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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 |
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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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By amodini
Posted in 2011, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, crime, hachette, mystery, netgalley, recommended, review, series, women |
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[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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By amodini
Posted in 2011, 3.5_star_rating, arc, books, culture and society, evocative, houghton_mifflin_harcourt, india, literature, netgalley, nostalgia, recommended, review |
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[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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Magebane
By amodini
Posted in 2011, 3_star_rating, arc, books, imaginative, penguin_books, review, sci-fi, steampunk |
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[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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »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 |
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[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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By amodini
Posted in 2011, 4.5_star_rating, arc, books, harpercollins, lovely things, must read, netgalley, recommended, review, sci-fi, time-travel |
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[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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Caleb’s Crossing
By amodini
Posted in 2011, 4_star_rating, arc, historical, penguin_books, recommended, review, viking_books |
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[amazon_link id=”0670021040″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Caleb’s Crossing Author : Geraldine Brooks Genre : Historical Fiction Publisher : Viking Pages : 300 (Hardcover) Source : Publisher ARC Caleb’s Crossing is about a real character – Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, the very first Native American graduate of Harvard College. Author Geraldine Brooks knits a story of fictional […]
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By amodini
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[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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Orbit
By amodini
Posted in 3.5_star_rating, books, recommended, review, sci-fi, simon_schuster, usa |
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[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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