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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

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From the acclaimed author of A Breath of Fresh Air, this beautiful novel takes us to modern India during the height of the summer’s mango season. Heat, passion, and controversy explode as a woman is forced to decide between romance and tradition. Every young Indian leaving the homeland for the United States is given the following orders by their parents: Don’t eat any cow (It’s still sacred!), don’t go out too much, save (and save, and save) your money, and most important, do not marry a foreigner. Priya Rao left India when she was twenty to study in the U.S., and she’s never been back. Now, seven years later, she’s out of excuses. She has to return and give her family the news: She’s engaged to Nick Collins, a kind, loving American man. It’s going to break their hearts. Returning to India is an overwhelming experience for Priya. When she was growing up, summer was all about mangoes—ripe, sweet mangoes, bursting with juices that dripped down your chin, hands, and neck. But after years away, she sweats as if she’s never been through an Indian summer before. Everything looks dirtier than she remembered. And things that used to seem natural (a buffalo strolling down a newly laid asphalt road, for example) now feel totally chaotic. But Priya’s relatives remain the same. Her mother and father insist that it’s time they arranged her marriage to a “nice Indian boy.” Her extended family talks of nothing but marriage—particularly the marriage of her uncle Anand, which still has them reeling. Not only did Anand marry a woman from another Indian state, but he also married for love. Happiness and love are not the point of her grandparents’ or her parents’ union. In her family’s rule book, duty is at the top of the list. Just as Priya begins to feel she can’t possibly tell her family that she’s engaged to an American, a secret is revealed that leaves her stunned and off-balance. Now she is forced to choose between the love of her family and Nick, the love of her life. As sharp and intoxicating as sugarcane juice bought fresh from a market cart, The Mango Season is a delightful trip into the heart and soul of both contemporary India and a woman on the edge of a profound life change.
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

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Saturday, March 28, 2015

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Monday, March 9, 2015

Review: Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

 
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine
Author: Bebe Moore Campbell
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher:  Ballantine Books
Release Date: August 10, 1993
Paperback: 433 pages
Source: Purchased from Amazon
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Review: Vicious

 
Vicious
Author: V.E. Schwab
Genre: Sci-Fi
Publisher:  Audible Studios
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Audiobook: 9 hours and 55 minutes
Narrator: Noah Michael Levine
Source: Purchased from Audible.com

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Review: Lolita

 
Lolita
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Genre:  Literature
Publisher:  Random House Audio
Release Date:  September 26, 2005
Audiobook:  11 hours and 32 minutes
Narrator: Jeremy Irons
Source: Free from e-Library

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Saturday, November 15, 2014

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Friday, June 27, 2014

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
 
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

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The House Girl

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Monday, February 3, 2014

Review: Divergent

Divergent (Book #1)
Author: Veronica Roth
Genre: YA Dystopian
Publisher:  Harper Audio
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Series: Divergent Series (Book 1) 
Audiobook: 11 hours and 11 minutes
Narrator:  Emma Galvin

Source: Purchased from Audible.com
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Saturday, February 1, 2014

The House Girl Read-A-Long

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It has been years since we had a read-a-long for our book of the month. I am happy to say Mocha Girl Cornethia will be hosting a month-long read-a-long on her blog THE CORN-VERSATION. What's a read-a-long?
A Read-A-Long is like a book club meeting but it has a weekly schedule instead of a monthly one. This way you will have discussions, chit-chat and Q&A's along the way as you are reading the book together. And if you follow the schedule you will finish the book just in time for book club meeting. Perfect!
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Friday, January 24, 2014

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Monday, January 6, 2014

Review: Dashing Through the Snow

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Dashing Through the Snow
Author: Mary and Carol Higgins Clark
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Audiobook: 5 hours and 12 minutes
Narrator: Carol Higgins Clark

Source: Purchased from Audible.com
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Review: 12 Years A Slave

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12 Years A Slave
Author: Solomon Northup
Genre:  Slave Narrative, Non-Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Paperback: 288 pages

Source: Purchased from Mysterious Galaxy
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Saturday, October 19, 2013

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Monday, September 30, 2013

Review: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Author: Betty Smith
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher:  Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release Date:  January 18, 2005
Paperback:  528 pages

Source: Purchased from Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Review: The Man in 3B

The Man in 3B
Author: Carl Weber
Genre: Fiction
Publisher:  Hachette Audio
Release Date:  January 29, 2013
Audiobook:  9 hours and 56 minutes
Narrators:  Mike Ray (Narrator), Shay Moore (Narrator), King Parker (Narrator), A. Jai Simone (Narrator), D. Michelle (Narrator)

Source:  Purchased from Audible.com
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