Monday: Mailbox/What Am I Reading?

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. It has finally found a permanent  home at Mailbox Monday with the following new administrators:

Leslie of Under My Apple Tree
Serena of Savvy Verse & Wit
Vicki of I'd Rather Be at the Beach

I received three poetry books for two tours....

TLC tour for THE ANTIGONE POEMS by Marie Slaight hosted by Lisa Munley

Poetic Book Tours hosted by Serena Agusto-Cox for The Robot Scientist's Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey and Reconnaissance by Anne Higgins


The Antigone Poems

Featuring poetry by Marie Slaight and charcoal drawings by Terrence Tasker, The Antigone Poems was created in the 1970’s, while the artists were living between Montreal and Toronto. An intensely personal invocation of the ancient Greek tale of defiance, the illustration and poetry capture the despair of the original tale in an unembellished modernized rendition.  

 The Antigone Poems provides a special expedition into the depths of the ancient Sophocles tragedy while questioning  power, punishment and one of mythology’s oldest themes: rebellion.

The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey

Dazzling in its descriptions of a natural world imperiled by the hidden dangers of our nuclear past, this book presents a girl in search of the secrets of survival. In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey creates for us a world of radioactive wasps, cesium in the sunflowers, and robotic daughters. She conjures the intricate menace of the nuclear family and nuclear history, juxtaposing surreal cyborgs and mad scientists from fifties horror flicks with languid scenes of rural childhood. Mining her experience growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the writer allows the stories of the creation of the first atomic bomb, the unintended consequences of scientific discovery, and building nests for birds in the crooks of maple trees to weave together a reality at once terrifying and beautiful. The Robot Scientist’s Daughter reveals the underside of the Manhattan Project from a personal angle, and charts a woman’s – and America’s – journey towards reinvention.

 Reconnaissance by Anne Higgins
Early praise for the book can be found in the The Hollins Critic magazine:

“Reconnaissance is Anne Higgins’s seventh poetry collection. In it, she reconnoiters her past, significant events in American history (the assassination of JFK, 9/11, a fire in which twenty-eight eight-year-olds died), her diminishing eyesight. (In “Another Blind Beggar” she informs us that there is “a grey footprint in the center of my vision, / a grey cat sits in the center of the field.” She writes about life as a nun and favorite pop songs. There are poems about birds, insects, and her mother. In short, this book maps an entire life, the life of a vibrant, intelligent, and sharply observant woman. “Morning yelps with cold,” she writes, and we feel and hear the charged air, become conscious of the exciting chill.” — Review by Kelly Cherry

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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 have read 103 novels till date, in 2015....

Saturday Snapshot: March 28, 2015

It was my birthday last Sunday, March 22. I did not celebrate it but I did get a handful of gifts. From my mom, SILs and friends.

On Monday, it was fun to celebrate in school by taking pics and simply goofing. Exams done, so no girls around until the results come out...

Sharing a few of those photos:

Diamond Studs from Mom

Cosmetic case from SIL amongst other stuff

Suncreen and BB cream bought by me

Pearl earrings from a friend

 Posting for Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Melinda of West Metro Mommy

Saturday Snapshot: March 21, 2015

It was an interesting March. We had lots of guests, for starters. My mom was not well for a few days. I was and still am busy with school exams.

With my College friend who lives in Arizona

Mom and my eldest SIL, who lives in Bangalore and was on a visit

Celebrating my SIL's birthday

 Was taking a staff meeting. Someone took a picure!!

Posting for Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Melinda of West Metro Mommy

Saturday Snapshot: March 7, 2015

Last week I posted pictures of well-known landmarks of Delhi, which I visited with my Auntie and Uncle. Today I will post pictures of my Auntie, Uncle and myself front of those landmarks. I will also post pictures my mom and Auntie...

With my Auntie, Mom's youngest Sis

With Uncle

Uncle and Auntie

Mom and her youngest Sis (20 years younger)

Mom, SIL, Brother, Auntie, Uncle

Posting for Saturday Snapshot, hosted by Melinda of West Metro Mommy

Monday: Mailbox/What Am I Reading?

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. It has finally found a permanent  home at Mailbox Monday with the following new administrators:

Leslie of Under My Apple Tree
Serena of Savvy Verse & Wit
Vicki of I'd Rather Be at the Beach

I received two books, thanks you the authors/publicists:

Night is the Hunter by Steven Gore

They call it pulling the trigger. Not by a killer in the night, but by a judge on the bench.

Twenty years ago, Judge Ray McMullin proved to the people of San Francisco he could pull that trigger by sentencing Israel Dominguez to death for a gangland murder. But it meant suppressing his own doubts about whether the punishment really did fit the crime.

As the execution date nears, the conscience-wracked judge confesses his unease to former homicide detective Harlan Donnally on a riverbank in far Northern California. And after immersing himself in the Norteno and Sureno gang wars that left trails of bullets and blood crisscrossing the state and in the betrayals of both cops and crooks alike, Donnally is forced to question not only whether the penalty was undeserved, but the conviction itself.

Soon those doubts and questions double back, for in the aging judge's panic, in his lapses of memory and in his confusions, Donnally begins to wonder whether he's chasing facts of the case or just phantoms of a failing mind. But there's no turning back, for the edge of night is fast closing in on Dominguez, on McMullin, and on Donnally himself.

The Pocket Wife by Susan Crawford:

Dana Catrell wakes from a drunken stupor in time to see an ambulance pull into her neighbour's house a few doors down. Celia Steinhauser has been murdered. But Dana was at her house only a few hours ago. Celia wanted to show her a photo - a photo of Dana's husband with another woman - and Dana has blank spots of what happened to the rest of the afternoon . . .

This is a thriller that makes the reader question everything. Dana, we learn, has a history of mental illness and as she descends into another manic episode, the line between what actually happened and what she has imagined becomes blurred.

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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 have read 23 novels+ 1 poetry book in Feb. Not bad, eh?