Monthly Review: June 2010

Number of book reviews posted: 30
Number of books read:  36
Number of pages read: 12,480

5 Star Review:

 

Posts:

A Dry Read: New Books for Nashville 

BBAW Entry Post

BEA 2010: Oh, the Books!

South Asian Challenge: Looking Forward

Summer Reading List


List of book reviews:
(in alphabetical order by author’s last name)

The Lost Girls – Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, & Amanda Pressner

A Year on Ladybug Farm – Donna Ball

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake – Aimee Bender

The Lies We Told – Diane Chamberlain

The Passage – Justin Cronin

Postcards from a Dead Girl – Kirk Farber

Half Life – Roopa Farooki

Heart of the Matter – Emily Giffin

Promises to Keep – Jane Green

Leaving India – Minal Hajratwala

Unaccustomed Earth – Jhumpa Lahiri

Stay – Allie Larkin

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest – Stieg Larsson

Lavinia – Ursula K. Le Guin

The Book of Spies – Gayle Lynds

The Poet Prince – Kathleen McGowan

Needles and Pearls – Gil McNeil

Heaven – Lisa Miller

V for Vendetta – Alan Moore & Dave Lloyd

Spooky Little Girl – Laurie Notaro

Heresy – S.J. Parris

A Curtain Falls – Stefanie Pintoff

Beneath the Sands of Egypt – Donald P. Ryan

The One That I Want – Allison Winn Scotch

Fireworks Over Toccoa – Jeffrey Stepakoff

Beachcombers – Nancy Thayer

Waiting for Columbus – Thomas Trofimuk

Climbing the Stairs – Padma Venkatraman

Bruno, Chief of Police – Martin Walker

A Vintage Affair – Isabel Wolff


Books I’ve read this month:
(in alphabetical order by author’s last name)

And Only To Deceive – Tasha Alexander

The Lost Girls – Jennifer Baggett, Holly Corbett, & Amanda Pressner

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County – Tiffany Baker

A Stranger in the Family – Robert Barnard

Changes – Jim Butcher

Insatiable – Meg Cabot

Seven Year Switch – Claire Cook

Sea Escape – Lynne Griffin

29 – Adena Halpern

Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris

Kiss in the Dark – Lauren Henderson

Between the Tides – Patti Callahan Henry

Stay – Allie Larkin

Lavinia – Ursula K. Le Guin

Baltimore Blues – Laura Lippmann

The Book of Spies – Gayle Lynds

The House of Subadar – Vijay Medtia

V for Vendetta – Alan Moore & Dave Lloyd

A Gate at the Stairs – Lorrie Moore

Riding Rockets – Mike Mullane

1st to Die – James Patterson

Rampant – Diana Peterfreund

Perfect Reader – Maggie Pouncey

Leaving Unknown – Kerry Reichs

Day for Night – Frederick Reiken

The Battle of the Labyrinth – Rick Riordan

The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan

The House on Oyster Creek – Heidi Jon Schmidt

The Lost Chalice – Vernon Silver

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky – Jennifer Steil

America – Jon Stewart

Kept – D.J. Taylor

Beachcombers – Nancy Thayer

The Whole Wide Beauty – Emily Woof

The Messenger of Athens – Anne Zouroudi

The Space Between Us – Thrity Umrigar

Comments

  1. wow Krishna! You never fail to impress :)
    I loved Unaccustomed Earth too!

  2. wow Krishna! You never fail to impress :)
    I loved Unaccustomed Earth too!

  3. As always your reading puts mine to shame! Can’t wait to read all of your upcoming reviews :)

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  5. I just finished Unaccustomed Earth about a week ago. LOVED it. Of course. Nothing else to do with Lahiri but love her.

  6. I just finished Unaccustomed Earth about a week ago. LOVED it. Of course. Nothing else to do with Lahiri but love her.

  7. Amazing month — especially because I know how busy you are now.

  8. Amazing month — especially because I know how busy you are now.

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