Monday: Mailbox/What am I Reading?/Musings

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs. Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. September host  for the past two weeks is Bob @ Beauty in Ruins

I received the following two novels from the authors/publicists:

Dirty Little Secrets by Liliana Hart: 

J.J. Graves has seen a lot of dead bodies in her line of work...

She's not only in the mortuary business, but she's also the coroner for King George County, Virginia. When a grisly murder is discovered in the small town of Bloody Mary, it's up to J.J. and her best friend, Detective Jack Lawson, to bring the victim justice.

The residents of Blood Mary are dropping like flies, and when a popular mystery writer shows up on J.J.'s doorstep with plans of writing his new book about the Bloody Mary Serial Killer, J.J. has to decide if he might be going above and beyond the call of duty to create the spine tinglers he's so well known for. It only clouds the issue and puts her reputation on the line when the attraction between them spirals out of control.

The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison: 

The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is handed to veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun. 

Methodical, clever Shan is the best man for the job, but he too is a prisoner, deported to Tibet for offending Beijing. Granted a temporary release, Shan is soon pulled into the Tibetan people's desperate fight for its sacred mountain and the Chinese regime's blood-soaked policies. Then, a Buddhist priest is arrested, a man Shan knows is innocent. 

Now time is running out for Shan to find the real killer...in an astonishing, emotionally charged story that will change the way you think about Tibet-- and freedom-- forever.

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Hosted by Sheila @ One Person's Journey Through a World of Books. We discuss the books that we've read and what we're planning to read for the week.

I finished reading:
NOTHING! 

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What do you do when life gets in the way, and you just don’t have much time to read? Do you complain? Do you accept it? Do you do everything in your power to make time to read? Share your thoughts!

Life just got into the way. We finished with the term exams. I am currently grading papers for Class 12. I have to grade 176 papers. I am half way through. I HATE GRADING PAPERS. But I gotta do it!!

Reading does take a back seat but that's how it it is. For some months now I have slowed down in my reading. It does not bother me any more. I am not here to win any kind of medal!!

Saturday Snapshot: September 28, 2013

I have an Aura!! 

 ISKON temple, Dwarka

Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Melinda of West Metro Mommy now. It was started by Alyce of At Home With books

Monday: Mailbox/What am I Reading?/Musings

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs. Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. September host  for the past two weeks is Bob @ Beauty in Ruins

I received the following book from the publicist:


In Gifts Not Yet Given, a warm and nuanced collection of short stories from award-winning author Kergan Edwards-Stout, dreams are realized, hope is found, memories are made, and life is treasured.  Each story is set around a holiday, from Halloween to Memorial Day, Thanksgiving to Christmas, and the tales illuminate the small yet pivotal moments in which personal awakenings occur and hearts expand. 

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Hosted by Sheila @ One Person's Journey Through a World of Books. We discuss the books that we've read and what we're planning to read for the week.

I finished reading:
NOTHING! 

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Monday Musing asks you to muse about something to do with books and reading each week…

• Maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

Can someone recommend books on Origami? I know simple ones and wish to try the complicated stuff.

Saturday Snapshot: September 21, 2013

I seldom wear costume jewellery. Believe it or not, I wear only Platinum, Gold or Silver. The earrings you see here are local stuff, which I liked and bought dirt cheap!! I have already worn the two pairs lots of times. The Silver Bracelet is a favorite of mine. I wear it almost always alternating it with another Silver bracelet. Maybe I should try buying artificial stuff more often!!

Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Melinda of West Metro Mommy now. It was started by Alyce of At Home With books

Monday: Mailbox/What am I Reading?/Musings

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs. Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. September host is Yolanda @ Notorious Spinks Talks.

I received the following e-galleys from the publicists:

Bride Wore Size 12 by Meg Cabot


Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it too, but this time her cake just might be cooked. Her wedding cake, that is.

With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. And when a pretty junior turns up dead, Heather's sure things can't get worse—until every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, and Heather's long-lost mother shows up.

Heather has no time for a tearful mother and bride reunion. She has a wedding to pull off and a murder to solve. Instead of wedding bells, she might be hearing wedding bullets, but she's determined to bring the bad guys to justice if it's the last thing she does . . . and this time, it just might be.

Darkness First by James Hayman

In the dark shadows of a summer evening a young woman named Tiffany Stoddard is

brutally slain by aremorseless killer's razor sharp blade. Learning that her closest childhood friend was nearly killed in the same incident, Portland Detective Maggie Savage rushes to the scene to join the State Police investigation. Maggie soon discovers the killer's name is Conor Riordan. There's only one problem. Conor Riordan doesn't exist. The only person who can provide a clue as to who Riordan really is, is the victim's eleven-year-old sister, Tabitha. And now Tabitha has turned up missing. Soon Maggie and her long time partner, Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe, find themselves in a desperate race against time to find the missing child before she becomes a vicious killer's next victim.

Cut to the Bone by Jefferson Bass

Summer 1992: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore launch a long-shot run for the White House. Back in the sweltering hills of Knoxville, Dr. Brockton—the bright, ambitious young head of the Anthropology Department at the University of Tennessee—launches a macabre research facility, unlike any other on earth. But Brockton’s plans to focus quietly on forensic research are derailed by a chilling case of déjà vu at a crime scene he is called to investigate.  

At first, the scientist and the police chalk up the similarities in Brockton’s past investigations and the current murder to coincidence. But as more and more bodies start turning up, bearing remarkable resemblances to cases from Brockton’s past—and as the fatal injuries grow more distinctive—the death-spiral steadily tightens around Brockton himself.  And unless Brockton can find the key to his past that will unlock the killer’s identity, the death toll could be staggering.  Brockton must come face-to-face with pure evil, or everyone he holds dear could be in harm’s way.

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Hosted by Sheila @ One Person's Journey Through a World of Books. We discuss the books that we've read and what we're planning to read for the week.

I finished reading:
NOTHING! 

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Monday Musing asks you to muse about something to do with books and reading each week…

• Maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I am not going to talk about books or reading. I am participating in all kinds of Competition for teachers...Essay Writing, Collage Making and Debate. I am having so much. I am thinking of joining some craft classes. Maybe I should join Aerobic Classes. I need to streamline my body!! Wot say, folks?

Saturday Snapshot: September 24, 2013

There was this Art and Craft Competition for teachers at Zonal level. Three of us participated in Collage Making Competition as a team.

Finishing touches

Finished Product

Gotta model with it!

PS: We used bits of papers from old magazines, newspapers and handmade paper etc. We tore the papers with our fingers and pasted those. It took us three hours. And we all ended up with sticky fingers!! :D

Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Melinda of West Metro Mommy now. It was started by Alyce of At Home With books

Booking Through Imagery

How much do you visualize when you read? Do you imagine faces for the characters? Can you see the locations in your mind’s eye? Or do you just plunge ahead with the story, letting the imagery fall to the wayside?

When I am reading, I visualize a whole movie. Every character and scene plays out in my mind. I have a rich imagination and I also add on to what I am reading! Without imagery, reading goes flat. In other words, it does not make any sense to me if we cannot play it out in our minds! 

Monday: Mailbox/What am I Reading?/Musings

Mailbox Monday is a gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week and explore great book blogs. Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. September host is Yolanda @ Notorious Spinks Talks.

I received the following from the author: 

1) Pushover by Dianne Emley (Kindle Version):

Sexy and savvy Iris Thorne has made it to the big corner office of the glittering yet cutthroat Los Angeles investment firm, McKinney Alitzer. She's looking ahead to a bright future with new boyfriend Garland Hughes when the past comes calling. Iris's ex-fiancé Todd Fillinger surfaces after many years and invites Iris to participate in a lucrative new venture in the wild and woolly emerging Russian market--red-hot yet dangerous in the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Iris is intrigued, not least because she has some personal business still to settle with Todd. But only hours after she's been met by Todd in Moscow, he's gunned down in front of her.

Horrified, Iris manages to return at least physically unscathed to the comforting familiarity of her L.A. beachfront bungalow and Garland's arms. She's brought with her Todd's ashes which she's agreed to deliver to his devastated sister. Only then does she learn that L.A. can be even more terrifying than Moscow and that the guilt-laden legacy of Todd Fillinger could destroy her.

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Hosted by Sheila @ One Person's Journey Through a World of Books. We discuss the books that we've read and what we're planning to read for the week.

I finished reading:

Blue Collar Eulogies by Michael Meyerhofer---poetry
ten poems to say goodbye by Roger Housden--poetry
A Criminal Defense by Steven Gore

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Monday Musing asks you to muse about something to do with books and reading each week…

• Maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

I took a vacation and was planning to come back to reading with a vengeance but it did not happen that way. I am still VERY VERY slow in my reading and now I do not worry about it any more. I am enjoying other stuff like lots of television and DIY. Is that bad?