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Paula’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Paula’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Paula Vince
Goodreads Author
Born
in Adelaide, Australia
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Influences
L.M.Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Harpe
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Member Since
July 2012
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Best Forgotten
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2011
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4 editions
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Imogen's Chance
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2014
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Picking Up the Pieces (Adelaide Hills #2)
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2010
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The Prophecies (Quenarden, #1)
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2002
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3 editions
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The Risky Way Home
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2012
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4 editions
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A Design of Gold
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2009
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3 editions
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The Dark Secret (Quenarden, #3)
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2004
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The Castle of Light (Quenarden, #2)
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2003
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Picking Up the Pieces
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Imogen's Chance
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'Some Other War' by Linda Newbery
Summary: Jack and Alice are twins. When war breaks out in 1914 Jack joins the army and Alice becomes a nurse. This is an evocative and dramatic story of war, love and pacifism.
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I found this book's sequel first, at a free bookstand, then before reading that, discovered an Internet Archive copy of this one. It always amazes me that excellent books can slide beneath the rad
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| This third novel in the Gilead Quartet plumbs the background of Lila, the enigmatic mother of John Ames' precious young son, born to him in his old age. As a tiny girl, Lila was kindly kidnapped from her kin by a tough lady named Doll, who evidently ...more | |
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This vintage book was first published in 1951. I've seen it praised as fascinating and remarkable so it seemed a good investment for $3 at one my favorite coastal secondhand bookshops. It all takes place from one hospital bed. Police Detective Alan G ...more |
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| This is a factual novel about Lydia of Thyatira, the 'seller of purple' whose elite business was based in Philippi, making her a first century version of an entrepreneur dealing in designer labels. Back in that time and place, purple dyed fabrics wer ...more | |
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| I requested this library book for the trip down memory lane, as I studied a fair bit of Shakespeare throughout High School and Uni English for my undergraduate degree, then read a bit more in recent years as part of my Graduate Diploma in Creative Wr ...more | |
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| I discovered this in a Little Free Library one evening. The conclusion to Robinson's Gilead series hadn't even been on my radar. It is the backstory in which Jack Boughton, everyone's favorite Prodigal Son, does Romeo. This novel was published in 202 ...more | |
"Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary was a great read - with his trade-mark hard science fiction, humour, and tricky situations in space.
Ryland Grace, failed scientist and cool science schoolteacher, awakes with amnesia and two dead crew mates in a space s" Read more of this review » |
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| First off, my daughter was completely wowed by the movie and ranked it five stars. Then she brought me and her dad to see it with her. Trusting her discernment, I loved it too. And next, she grabbed the novel as an impulse buy from the book section o ...more | |
"Much like Andy Weir's earlier novel, The Martian, Project Hail Mary is not only grounded in science, but celebrates it and demonstrates it as a powerful problem solving tool. Unlike The Martian, this book takes things a step further out of our real w"
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| First off, my daughter was completely wowed by the movie and ranked it five stars. Then she brought me and her dad to see it with her. Trusting her discernment, I loved it too. And next, she grabbed the novel as an impulse buy from the book section o ...more | |
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| I found this book's sequel first, at a free bookstand, then before reading that, discovered an Internet Archive copy of this one. It always amazes me that excellent books can slide beneath the radars of avid bookworms like myself. I'm sure I would ha ...more | |
“Reader's Bill of Rights
1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to not defend your tastes”
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1. The right to not read
2. The right to skip pages
3. The right to not finish
4. The right to reread
5. The right to read anything
6. The right to escapism
7. The right to read anywhere
8. The right to browse
9. The right to read out loud
10. The right to not defend your tastes”
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
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“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
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“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
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“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
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Paula wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest a..."
Hi Elizabeth, sure, please feel free to use any of my quotes for your press release. Have fun putting it together.
Blessings,
Paula V
Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wro..."
Elizabeth wrote: "Dear Paula,
I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wro..."
Dear Paula,I'm not certain if my message got to you yesterday, so here I go again. Sally from Wombat Books has asked me to write my press release for Green Heart of the Forest and because you wrote my appraisal in the Caleb Ms competition, I was wondering if i could use some of your quotes please. Thanks and God bless.
Elizabeth Klein