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Wondra Vanian

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pan pagan, geeky snowflake, mental health warrior, raging fangirl, author of things that go bump in the night, uppity feminist, & sausage mama (she/her)

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	Alternative Truths by Phyllis Irene Radford (Editor), Bob Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adam-Troy Castro 4.27 avg rating — 120 ratings — 2 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
	Strange Girls: Women in Horror Anthology by Azzurra Nox (Goodreads Author), Claire Hamilton Russell (Contributor), Emma Johnson-Rivard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.27 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2020 — 2 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
	The Second Corona Book of Horror Stories by Lewis Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Phillip Drake, Tina Grehm (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings — 2 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
	More Alternative Truths: Stories From The Resistance by Bob Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Irene Radford (Editor), Lou J. Berger (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	The Corona Book of Horror Stories by Lewis Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), S.L. Powell, Keith Trezise (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 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
	Oceans (Dark Drabbles, #9) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author), Cassandra Angler 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	The Fourth Corona Book of Horror Stories by Lewis Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Florence Ann Marlowe (Contributor), Donna L. Greenwood (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 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
	Run, Rabbit, Run (Dark Drabbles, #14) by Wondra Vanian (Goodreads Author), Bernardo Villela (Goodreads Author), Laurence Sullivan (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Pale is the New Tan 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 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
	A Long Time Dead 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2017 — 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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Fire Starter (Fluorescence, #1)

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365 Days of Hoodoo: Daily Rootwork, Mojo & Conjuration

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Wondra Vanian rated a book liked it We Did That? Human Bloopers, Secret Histories, Medical Mysteries, Strange Superstitions. and Other Curiositites from Our Past by Sophie Stirling	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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Interesting but not particularly accessible. Requires an aptitude for math I definitely do NOT have.
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Pretty but needs to be a bit thicker to be a useful journal. Cheatsheets in front are handy but should include reverse meanings too.
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

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“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: drinking, humor

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“God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

tags: clay, friends, friendship, influence

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“And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

tags: something-wicked-this-way-comes

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