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Book Review : The House at Tyneford

[amazon_link id=”0452297648″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The House at Tyneford Author : Natasha Solomon Genre : Historical Romance Publisher : Plume Pages : 368 Rating : 2.5/5 “The House at Tyneford” is a historical novel, set amid the upheaval of the Second World War. Elise Landau is a Viennese Jewess living with her parents […]

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Book Review : State of Wonder

[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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Book Review : Accidents of Providence

[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 : Midnight in Austenland

[amazon_link id=”1608196259″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : Midnight in Austenland Author : Shannon Hale Genre : Romance/Mystery Publisher : Bloomsbury Source : NetGalley/Publisher ARC Rating : 3/5 I decided to read this book, because my daughter has read a number of Hale’s YA books and recommended her, when I asked her about the author. Also […]

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Book Review : The Bungalow

[amazon_link id=”B005Q8254K” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : The Bungalow Author : Sarah Jio Genre : Romance Publisher : Plume Pages : 287 Source : Publisher ARC Rating : 3.5/5 This is the story of Anne Calloway and her best friend Kitty. Anne is about to marry Gerard Godfrey, a childhood friend and her social equal, […]

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South Asian Challenge for 2012

I read S. Krishna’s Book Blog often, but this is the first time I’m taking the South Asian Challenge she hosts. I am of South-Asian descent so the literary landscape is kind of familiar. I do read South-Asian books once in a while – I recently read “The Artist of Disappearance” by Anita Desai which […]

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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 : Three Day Town

[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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Tejaswee Rao Blogging Awards

Feminist and fellow-blogger Indian Homemaker has announced Blogging Awards in the memory of her daughter Tejaswee. There are about 35 categories, in which you can nominate posts. I have added a few of my own which fit, and ask you to to do the same. If you have read of posts which fit into these […]

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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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