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Nish

Voracious reader, vegetarian foodie, mostly armchair traveler, and frequent online shopper. I love to talk about all these passions (and other things happening in my life) in this blog.

    Art, Shopping01/01<07/08

    My Blogging Nook – Work in Progress

    As part of my new year resolution of home improvements, here is a blog post that’s been sitting in my Drafts folder the past…

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    Historical Fiction, Teaser Tuesdays12/31<08/29

    Teaser Tuesdays: Outlander

    Have been reading this book this past week, and haven’t been able to put it down. It’s a historical romance, true, not my genre…

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    Life Updates12/30<10/13

    This Year I Resolve To

    For 2014, I am going to have slightly different new year resolutions. Work Smart After a year of feeling like a hamster on a…

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    Asian Fiction, Books, Chills/Thrills/Spills, Humor12/30<06/14

    The Case of the Love Commandos

    When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman’s parents are dead set against the union. She’s from a high-caste family; he’s an…

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    Art, Wordless Wednesdays12/25<05/28

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all you Lovely Readers!

    Christmas time, mistletoe and wine. I love this time of year, celebrations and joy and looking forward to a new year!

    I tried getting the snubnose and piglet into a single festive photo, but that’s pretty much impossible, it seems.

    So, here’s the snubnose alone wishing you all a Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

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    Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks
    Books, Humor, Mailbox Mondays, Memoir/Biography/Non-fiction12/23<08/29

    Mailbox Mondays: Advance Bookish Christmas Gifts

    Welcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued and hosted by Gilion of Rose City Reader this month. I…

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    Asian Fiction, Books, Chick-lit, Chills/Thrills/Spills, Classics, Fantasy / Mythology, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Short stories, Tags12/22<08/29

    Meme: Six in Six

    I saw this meme over at The Bookworm Chronicles and decided this was the perfect way to showcase the books I read this year…

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    Unbearably lovely lead pair
    Screen time12/21<03/30

    A Heart-Wrenching Story of Love and Loss: The Constant Gardener Movie Review

    I saw a whole bunch of movies this month, and I plan to talk about them shortly in a separate blog post, but since…

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    Indian Bookshelves
    Wordless Wednesdays12/18<12/17

    Shared on Facebook

    This fun graphic has been doing the rounds of Facebook recently, and I thought it was funny enough to share here 🙂

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    Tech12/16<01/29

    Plug-in and Theme Experimentation

    Now that I have moved to self-hosted, I am having a bucket load of fun trying out a whole bunch of plug-ins and themes….

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      Yeah, we are pretty confident we can pay off this house regardless of my job situation. We kept our budget low, and live in a quiet, semi-rural area. It helps…
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      Congrats on the new house. I admire your courage in taking this step amid job insecurity but it does seem like the right choice. Condolences on the loss of Coco.…
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      Looks like I should watch The Americans. Yours is the second comment here raving about it. I think your mum can be excused. I keep lecturing my daughter about the…

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