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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
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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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| Here are the stories of two strong female lighthouse keepers from the same family but generations apart. One is the famous Grace Darling who saved several survivors of a shipwreck. Theme: the nature of courage. | |
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"3.5 Two strong, able women, a century apart, and their lives as keepers of a lighthouse.
WHAT I LIKED The settings, lighthouses are one of the things I seek out on my vacations. I love them and the role they have played throughout history. Grace Darlin" Read more of this review » |
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"Do you remember the scene in Jerry Seinfeld where Elaine believes that the Vietnamese women in the nail salon are talking about her?
Pick a Color has many of the same elements. Each manicurist goes by the name Susan, and they all are about the same he" Read more of this review » |
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| This is an imagined history where William Shakespeare (although not named) and a young woman named Agnes escape from very unpleasant home backgrounds to marry and raise a family. Wife Agnes is a strong character, mother to three children including Ha ...more | |
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"We know surprisingly little about William Shakespeare, arguably the best playwright who ever put quill to parchment. But we do know this: he had three children, including a son named Hamnet, who died when he was only eleven. Four years later, Hamnet'"
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“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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