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Well … this is one review which took a lot of time to get from my laptop to my blog. This month, work kept me busy and an important person from whom I needed inputs was my Dad. He also took his own time to give me his 'review' … Finally, I put everything together and now the review is up. Reviewing books has become a regular affair but this is different. Reviewing a product and that too, an 'edible and consumable' product Mints – we all have grown consuming mints in various forms and varieties. Weather it was the minty taste or the cooling effect on the tip of the tongue – whether it were small round or rectangular pellets or the very famous mint-with-a-hole – mints have been a part of our growing up. So when BlogAdda offered the product review for a new 'mint' … I decided to give it a shot. It was a dual opportunity – product review and try out a new mint … So that's how I came about to review Ultramintz – a product by ITC under their existing brand...

So I had blogged about my reading plans for 2013-2014 way back in February so thought of just looking back to see if I had veered way off the track !! I have pulled in original content from that post in February and added my comments / status in red text. I had talked about … Short Stories …  Have read them in 2011/2012 and will continue to read them in 2013/2014 Arthur Conan Doyle  – Quite a lot of short stories and none of them has Sherlock Holmes Philip K Dick  – Quite a lot of short stories still to be read even after reading 35 in 2012 Three Investigators Series  – Crime Busters series and Series by Mark Zahn - 23 of them Satyajit Ray  – Professor Shonku short stories; recently discovered 2 collections translated in English   I have been doing all of the above - Reading short stories by several authors as well as those by ACD and PKD besides consistently reading 3I series novellas and short stories. I have just completed one collection of Pr...

The novels (marked bold) and short stories that I have read in the past one month …   1         Novel: The Chimera Vector by Nathan M. Farrugia 2         Henry Shorts: The Dissipated Jeweler by O Henry 3         Hitchcock – Shrouds & Pockets: Where is Harry Beal by John Lutz 4         Hitchcock – Shrouds & Pockets: Deep Waters by John C Boland 5         JA Shorts - Quiver Full of Arrows: Henry's Hiccup by Jeffrey Archer 6         Novel: Inferno by Dan Brown 7         JA Shorts - Quiver Full of Arrows: The Hungarian Professor by Jeffrey Archer 8         PKD Shorts: A Present for Pat by Philip K Dick 9         PKD Shorts: The Hood Maker by Philip K Dick 10     Prof. Shonku Short: The Cochabamban Cave by Satyajit Ray 11     3I Series by MZ - Novella: The Adventure of the Bronze Claw by Mark Zahn 12     Henry Shorts: The Barber Talks by O Henry 13     Henry Shorts: Barber Shop Adventure by O Henry ...