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Tara Goedjen

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Tara Goedjen never stays in one place for long. She wrote NO BEAUTIES OR MONSTERS on the island of Guam and in the desert of New Mexico, and she now lives and writes in the Pacific Northwest. She is also the author of The Breathless.

To find out more about Tara and her books, find her on Instagram at @taragoedjen or say hello at taragoedjenauthor.com.

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Average rating: 3.33 · 1,390 ratings · 397 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Breathless 3.18 avg rating — 936 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Beauties or Monsters 3.64 avg rating — 454 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tale Review: The Grey Issue #8 by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Alissa Nutting (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Seth Abramson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fairy Tale Review: The Aquamarine Issue #5 by Kate Bernheimer (Editor), Kim Addonizio (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Naoko Awa (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Firebird Song

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Tara Goedjen said: " Lush and imaginative, The Firebird Song had me reading straight through the night! Prewitt and Calliope’s quest to save their kingdom was full of wonder and adventure, and, ultimately, hope. I highly recommend picking this one up, or giving it to an ...more "

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No Beauties or Monsters

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Mexican Gothic

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“That was the thing about life--people always assumed there'd be more time. More time to say hello, more time to say I love you. More time to say I'm sorry. Until there wasn't.”
― Tara Goedjen, The Breathless

tags: life-and-living, life-lessons-quotes, time

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“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark-tower, horror

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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