[amazon_link id=”0307886271″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Author : Mindy Kaling Narrator : Mindy Kaling Publisher : Random House Audio Rating : 4.5/5 After I discovered that I liked audiobooks because they make my walk/commute more interesting, I’ve listened to quite a few. “Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me” […]
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Audiobook Review : Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
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Book Author Event : 5 great authors and their books!
[amazon_link id=”1451695659″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]I had the pleasure of attending a Book Event on June 30th, a Sunday afternoon where we got to hear from four different female authors. There was Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni with her recent book “The Oleander Girl”, Saborna Roychowdhury with her book “The Distance” which is soon to have it’s […]
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[amazon_link id=”1250027004″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Painted Hands Author : Jennifer Zobair Genre : South-Asian Fiction Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books (Macmillan) Pages : 336 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3.8/5 Painted Hands is about three young women struggling with their life and religion. Zainab Mir, Amra Abbas and Rukan are three young […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : Pastors’ Wives by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen (April 2013)
[amazon_link id=”0452298822″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Pastor’s Wives Author : Lisa Takeuchi Cullen Publisher : Plume Books Genre : Contemporary Fiction Pages : 359 Source : Publisher Rating : 3.5/5 Candace Green, Ginger Green and Ruthie matters are pastors’ wives. Their husbands work for the Greenleaf mega-church. Aaron Green is the senior pastor and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Audiobook Review : Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility (by Jane Austen)
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[amazon_link id=”0786118229″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Although my foray into audio-books started as an attempt to make my walks more interesting and to tempt me to go walking even, I have to say that I am hooked. And for that I credit the narrators. I’ve been lucky enough to listen to three of the best, Frederick […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag
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[amazon_link id=”067078463X” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The House at the End of Hope Street Author : Menna van Praag Genre : Women’s Fiction Publisher : Pamela Dorman Books (Viking) Pages : 304 Source : Netgalley/Publisher Arc Rating 2.5/5 Unhappy Alba Ashby is drawn toward a house on the street. At the doorstep, she is […]
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[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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book review : The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
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[amazon_link id=”0345534050″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Best of All Possible Worlds Author : Karen Lord Genre : Science Fiction/ Romance Publisher : Del Rey Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Pages : 320 Rating : 3.5/5 Karen Lord’s new sci-fi novel is set in the future when humans have colonized new planets. When the planet […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : The Pretty One by Lucinda Rosenfeld
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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 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review : A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry
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[amazon_link id=”0307718417″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : A Cold and Lonely Place Author : Sara J. Henry Genre : Mystery Publisher : Crown/Random House Pages : 304 Source : Netgalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 4/5 Troy Chance is a journalist at a small newspaper in Saranac Lake, in the cold snow-filled Adirondack mountain country of New […]
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