Poornima Apte

Poornima Apte loves to read, write, and listen to NPR. She lives in the greater Boston area with her husband and two daughters. Poornnima has reviewed the following for MostlyFiction.com:

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2009

• My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (4-23-09)
• Selling Your Father's Bones by Brian Schofield (4-5-09)
• American Rust by Philipp Meyer (3-24-09)
• In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenddin (3-17-09)
• Ruins by Achy Obejas (3-11-09)
• Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis (2-21-09)
• Security by Steve Amidon (2-3-09)
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (2-2-09)
• Lark & Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (1-24-09)
• Dream City by Brendan Short (1-15-09)
• Nemesis by Jo Nesbo (1-6-09)

2008

• Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip P. Pan (12-31-08)
• Mrs. Hemple Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum (11-23-08)
• Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt (10-1-08)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (9-23-08)
• Dear American Airlines by Jonathan Miles (9-8-08)
• Petropolis by Anya Ulinich (8-5-08)
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (7-17-08)
• The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi (7-4-08)
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (6-25-08)
• The Fortune Cookie Chronicle by Jennifer 8. Lee (6-17-08)
• The Boat by Nam Le (6-11-08)
• Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink (6-3-08)
• The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon (5-24-08)
• Enlightenment by Maureen Freely (5-14-08)
• Split Estate by Charlotte Bacon (5-9-08)
• Banana by Dan Koeppel (5-3-08)
• Unnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (4-24-08)
• Ellington Boulevard by Adam Langer (4-19-08)
• The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt (4-15-08)
• Slip of the Knife by Denise Mina (4-9-08)
• Knots by Naruddin Farah (3-21-08)
• Draining the Sea by Micheline Aharonian Marcom (3-13-08)
• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner (3-3-08)
• How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet (2-23-08)
• His Illegal Self by Peter Carey (2-11-08)
• Night Train to Lisbon by Pascal Mercier (2-6-08)
• My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru (1-25-08)
• A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam (1-18-08)

2007

• The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum (12-30-07)
• The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Benyon Rees (12-19-07)
• Them by Nathan McCall (12-11-07)
• North River by Pete Hamill (11-30-07)
• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama (11-29-07)
• China Road by Rob Gifford (11-8-07)
• The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett (11-4-07)
• A Free Life by Ha Jin (10-29-07)
• Away by Amy Bloom (10-16-07)
• Consolation by Michael Redhill (10-7-07)
• The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt (10-02-07)
• Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (9-27-07)
• The Assassin's Song by M. G. Vassanji (9-20-07)
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (9-9-07)
• New Orleans Noir by Julie Smith (8-14-07)
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (7-27-07)
• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (07-10-07)
• Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee (6-22-07)
• Certainty by Madeleine Thien (06-11-07)
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (05-30-07)
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (05-15-07)
• Better by Atul Gawande (04-23-07)
• The Perfect Man by Naeem Murr (4-18-07)
• Dancing to "Almendra" by Mayra Montero (04-05-07)
• Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris (3-28-07)
• Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (2-21-07)
• The Last Friend by Tahar Ben Jelloun (02-07-07)
• Zoli by Colum McCann (01-30-07)
• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (01-16-07)
• Death of a Writer by Michael Collins (01-01-07)

2006

• The Dead Hour by Denise Mina (9-30-06)
• Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalami (6-4-06)
• Wickett's Remedy by Mylla Goldberg (3-20-06)
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (1-29-06)

2005

• Extreemly Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonanthan Safran Foer (3-27-05)

2004

• Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn (10-12-04)
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss (9-16-04)
• An Embarrassment of Mangoes by Ann Vanderhoof (07-24-04)
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim by David Sedaris (07-03-04)
• The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (07-03-04)
• Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong (05-15-04)
• The Big Year by Mark Obmascik (04-23-04)
• Bandbox by Thomas Mallon (3-9-04)
• All That is Gone by Pramoedya Ananta Toer (2-23-04)
• The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin (1-25-04)
• The Locklear Letters by Michael Kun (1-11-04)

2003

• The Movies of My Life by Alberto Fuguet (11-30-03)
• The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (11-11-03)
• The Anomalies by Joey Goebel (10-21-03)
• Monsoon Diary by Shoba Narayan (9-24-03)
• Bangkok 8 by John Burdett (7-8-03)
• Drop City by T.C. Boyle (7-8-03)
• Shadow Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla (6-18-03)
• White Mughals by William Dalrymple (6-18-03)
• Monkey Hunting by Cristina Garcia (5-28-03)
• The Coffee Trader by David Liss (5-13-03)
• A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray (4-20-03)
• The Book of Salt by Monique Truong (3-31-03)
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (03-16-03)
• The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya (2-10-03)

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