Advance Booking

I received a couple of awards over the past month, but I haven't gotten around to acknowledging them. So I'm doing a belated handing out of the awards. So sorry for the delay! I received the...

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BBC came out with a few adaptations of Shakespeare's plays a while back, called ShakespeaRe-told, and I spent much of this week watching them on Youtube. These are a set of four movies which ...

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THE ENCHANTMENT THAT IS MUSIC This book has garnered a lot of praise, with Pandit Ravi Shankar calling it “A must for every musician and music lover!” It was a very soothing read, and giv...

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LIE BACK AND ENJOY First, a big apology to the readers of this blog. I've been off for longer than necessary. First it was mid-terms and then a poor Internet connection, and I really haven't ...

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ENSNARED BY LITIGATION I'm so sorry for the lack of posts this past week, my midterm exams are coming up, which, coupled with an erratic Internet connection, have served to keep me away from ...

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CLUB BORED Honestly, I did not like this book as much as the previous ones. I didn’t hate it, but it left me feeling pretty meh at the end. When Sookie’s vampire boyfriend Bill, who wa...

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At times, people come up with innovative ways of using the blogosphere to promote reading, and Thaw, a novel by Fiona Robyn, does just that. I appreciated the concept and I'm participating in th...

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We're having our annual cultural fest at our institute, so posting at this blog is a little slow. It'll be back to normal in a couple of days. This month, in celebration of my blogoversary, I h...

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So, the winner of my blogoversary book giveaway of Beth Fantaskey's Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, as chosen by random.org is KAILIA SAGE Congratulations! I'm sending you an emai...

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PAINFUL REPENTANCE I hadn’t heard of Ian McEwan until I decided to read Atonement for the Guardian challenge, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. The arrival of her brother Leon has the...

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I would like to welcome Chloe Neill, author of the popular Chicagoland Vampire series, starring Merit, a powerful vampire who is initiated into the controversial Cadogan House. Thanks Chloe, f...

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UNCRACKABLE MYSTERY, UNUSUAL INVESTIGATORS Another book that I’m the last person in the world to read. I really should make a feature of it. Anyways, I loved the book, and I really want to ...

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INDIAN FANTASY COMES OF AGE Indian literature is rich in myths and folklore, but Indian fantasy fiction is sadly underdeveloped. So I was really happy to read this book, which incorporates ...

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I've been catching up with my favorite series all week, and reading the fantastic Samit Basu, so there hasn't been much activity on the blog. Just a reminder, my giveaway for Beth Fantaskey's ...

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This is a list of all the books I have read and reviewed in my second year of blogging. Please leave a comment (with link) if you have reviewed a book on the list or on the main review, and I'll ...

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SNARKY SPIRITS My roommate raved about the Bartimaeus Trilogy, and I thought that this was a perfect way to begin the new year. I really loved this book, and I’ll try to get hold of the seq...

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I had made a list of blogging goals and reading goals about six months back, and looking at the list, I see that I've fulfilled most of them. Except for the challenges. Honestly, I can't st...

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UPDATE: THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO PARTICIPATED! Yay! It's my blogoversary! I can't believe it's been one year since I started blogging. It feels awesome to have complet...

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I'm really excited to welcome Beth Fantaskey, author of the popular Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, a tale of a young girl who finds that she is betrothed to a vampire. Watch this ...

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SO IT GOES I love science fiction, so it is a little embarrassing that it’s taken me this long to read a Kurt Vonnegut book. Slaughterhouse Five is the story of Billy Pilgrim, a time-tra...

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The month started off badly when it came to reading and blogging, with me going through a bad reading slump (witness trickle of posts). But things picked up near the end, and I've got a good list...

http://linktoink.blogspot.com/2010/01/sunday-salon-december-january-roundup.html

TEXAN TROUBLES I have been in a reading funk ever since I got back from home. I started several books to leave them unfinished, looking for one book to get me out of the slump. What a surpri...

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It's been pretty quiet over here for the past month, though I've been back to the blogosphere for quite some time. This time, the quiet is not because of pressure or anything like that, but ju...

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PULSE-POUNDING ACTION I know that I’m probably the last person in the world to read this book, and you’ve probably read so many glowing reviews of this one that you are too jaded to read...

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SNOW-CAPPED ALLURE A holiday read. I’ve always been interested in George Mallory’s story, and this book, though a fictionalized account of his life, was something I looked forward to readi...

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