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Sheila’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sheila’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sheila Balls
Goodreads Author
Born
in North Bay Ontario, Canada
Website
Genre
Influences
anne lamott garrison keillor
Member Since
March 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/alley1
Hold hands and move forward
Towards morning but still fully dark I am wakened by the soft pad of a cat stepping carefully across the bed to look into my face: “Are you awake?”
I used to write then, up at the lake, those nights I could not sleep, but it has been a long time since I felt like writing through the dark hours . . . maybe because of the “dark hours” we have gone through in our own life.
In those years we lived in Read more of this blog post »
I used to write then, up at the lake, those nights I could not sleep, but it has been a long time since I felt like writing through the dark hours . . . maybe because of the “dark hours” we have gone through in our own life.
In those years we lived in Read more of this blog post »
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All Right So Far
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Somebody Move the Cat!
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2003
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Our Side of the Fence: Tales from the Not-So-Deep Woods
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Our Side of the Fence
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2005
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Walk This Way
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Sheila’s Recent Updates
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Four Bullets, Four Witnesses, Four Liars: The True Story of a Murder and the Trial That Followed
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What a small world it is! My husband was raised just north of Wiarton. I belong to a readers advisory group and one of the women has often given suppo
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Sheila
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Clif Hostetler's review
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Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution:
"This book is a history focused primarily on the restoration of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica that occurred in the 1750s. The scope of history begins in ancient Rome with the first construction on the site and continues through the dome’s construct"
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| This book acknowledges how everyone seems to have their eyes on some kind of a prize whether it is realistic or not. In a tiny unsuccessful hotel, Pasquale lives a quiet life until Hollywood intervenes. Readers will like the characters although there ...more | |
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Heart-Stabbing Elaboration of Beauty
 I left this book on my shelf for almost four years because I stalled out early. In April nine years ago, with spring coming on, I picked it up again. This time it took. I get the complaints people make about Be" Read more of this review » |
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| This book acknowledges how everyone seems to have their eyes on some kind of a prize whether it is realistic or not. In a tiny unsuccessful hotel, Pasquale lives a quiet life until Hollywood intervenes. Readers will like the characters although there ...more | |
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Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
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| Well researched but the frequent forays away from the main story distracted me. I wanted to know what was happening with the main characters, particularly because this is non-fiction. | |
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| The lives of two families become intertwined after meeting at the airport while waiting for their Korean orphan adoptee babies to arrive. We see the ways in which the families are both similar and different, and how they struggle valiantly to underst ...more | |
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"My first Tyler, and despite seeming slow to begin with, I was thoroughly enmeshed in the lives of the characters by the end. It explores the immigration experience, raising questions about identity and belonging, language and social isolation. There "
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| I took ages to finish this book which seemed to wander all over the place. But my respect for the author based on his novel Anxious People kept me going until the last quarter of the book which really WAS good. There are many little gems worth quotin ...more | |
“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
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“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
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“No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“If thou of fortune be bereft,
and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
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and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
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