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Meredith Anderson

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Meredith is a writer and editor based in Brisbane, Australia, who has been writing for as long as she's been breathing. Writing has always been her path. Meredith is drawn, beyond anything else, to speculative fiction and stories that blend magic and other elements with our world. She lives with her dogs Axton (golden retriever/kelpie) and Leo (mini poodle/fox terrier/demon). ...more

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Goodreads reading challenge and mood reading

I usually don't have much structure to the order in which I read books. I'm a mood reader - I go where my mood takes me, which often is not where I intend. Often, it is far from where I intend, with books piling up on my TBR and sneaking away into the void, even when I really, badly want to read them. (*side eyes The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker and several of Brandon Sanderson's books/series*)

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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.”
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