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Matthew Rasnake

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Matthew writes science-fiction for all ages. He's currently polishing his upcoming novel, Rogue Planet, and developing a series of books for children through young adult featuring a pair of adorable astronauts named Sam, and their stuffed monkey sidekick. He loves anything technological or sciencey, and delights in reading to his three rambunctious children in as many funny voices as possible. ...more

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Name All The Things

Naming things is hard. To take a whole, entire thing and boil it down to only one or a few words? Oh my goodness.

Ever since I started writing "Rogue Planet" years ago, that has been the working title. (No, not "That"—"Rogue Planet" ya goof.) It's a decently okay title, if kind of on the nose, but you know... workable. It could work. But maybe something else would be better?

Around Christmas, I fina

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Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)

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Some of the Dharma

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message 5: by Connie

Dec 16, 2011 02:59PM

Good Luck, my friend. And I hope to add your work to my list before my time ends!

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message 4: by Matthew

Dec 14, 2011 08:53PM

Connie wrote: "Well that is a VERY ambitious to-read list."

A big portion of the "new additions" are from the Modern Library Top 100 Novels (of the 20th Century list)... you remember when that came out... I was still working at Hawley-Cooke then. And I decided that I wanted to read every book on the list... 11 years later, I'm still slowly working my way up the list.

Of course, there are also a ton of non-ML-top-100 things on my list that I've picked up over the years and are accumulating on my to-read shelf. I figure I should be able to finish everything before I kick, and hopefully some more besides. AND, hopefully, get a few of my own books on someone else's list!

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message 3: by Connie

Dec 14, 2011 04:08PM

Well that is a VERY ambitious to-read list.Not only are you quite fetching, you're also quite the highbrow:) Just thrilled to see A Separate Peace wasn't on your list.Merry Christmas, dude!

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message 2: by Matthew (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:00PM)

Oct 08, 2007 07:54PM

I'm so beat they should call me Maynard.

Seems like a nice place, mebbe i'll stick around.

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