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Talena Winters
Goodreads Author
Born
in Canada
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
August 2016
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/talenawinters
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The Friday Night Date Dress
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2015
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9 editions
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Finding Heaven
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2017
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11 editions
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The Undine's Tear (Rise of the Grigori, #1)
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All I Want for Christmas: A Peace Country Story
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The Waterboy
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Every Star that Shines
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The Sphinx's Heart
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Every Bell that Rings
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Up in Smoke
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2019
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Love Notes: A Short Story
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Bears, Mermaids, and a Late ADHD Diagnosis (at 49)
My conquering heroes. Photo by Colleen Hilman.
Last week, I had to run from a bear.
I was on my usual walk around my roughly 55-acre field, slogging along a trail that hadn’t been mowed for some time but that was still significantly shorter than the rest of the grass, wildflowers, and shrubs that fill the rest of it. I was at about the halfway point, where the back of the field is separated from s
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“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”
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| This writing style is not for me, and neither is the Gary Stu protagonist. Got 25% in before getting tired of being frustrated by the screenplay-style dialogue and emotionless and conflict-free exposition with almost no inner monologue by an unflawed ...more | |
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| A compelling read that I found difficult to put down. Nice to see the writing improve from the first novel, but the amount of passive voice still employed sometimes made the action hard to visualize. However, that hardly matters, because the storytel ...more | |
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"Last night I was tempted to give this book two stars out of sheer frustration, but that wouldn't be fair. Yes, it's nowhere near as good as its predecessor, the excellent _Wool_. And yes, it's not what you'd call really good. But I did read it straig"
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“Steve's laugh was brittle. “Sarah, we all have our own wounds. We’re all broken in our own way. Mine might look different than yours, but they were deep enough to enlarge my heart.”
― Finding Heaven
― Finding Heaven
“For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something more than the life she had.”
― Finding Heaven
― Finding Heaven
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“I found the hum of his computer rather soothing, but it was the complete lack of unicorn carcasses that really pulled the room together.”
― Rampant
― Rampant
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
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“Amazing relationships aren't about making one perfect choice in your choice of partner. They're about the infinite amount of choices you make in each conflict, each conversation, and each moment to open yourself and to stay open, even when it's hard.”
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“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
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