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Nicole Barrell

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Boston, The United States

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Thriller, Suspense, Mystery

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Stephen King, AM Homes, John Irving, Lily King, Elizabeth Strout, Mega ...more

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Nicole Barrell is the author of the psychological suspense THE HOLLOW, called an “admirable debut…an engaging journey into a troubled mind, a promising novel (Kirkus). Her upcoming suspense, THE SHAM--about the worst roommate ever--comes out September 2023 from Woodhall Press. Nicole earned a Publishing and Writing M.A. from Emerson College and a Journalism B.A. from UMass Amherst. Nicole is a native of Cape Cod, where most of her stories are set. She now teaches high school there and lives outside Boston with her husband, son, and dog.

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Something cropped up recently where I hadn’t updated someone on something since January. And I realized it’s May. And I’m wondering what happened to the months in between because that’s wild.

I’m looking forward to the summer. For obvious reasons: a break from teaching (which did get better as the year wore on but at one point I was really, really doubting whether I was on the right path). I think

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Welcome to the Monkey House

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Blue Nights

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The Brothers Karamazov

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“and between us grew the seed of an understanding: that sometimes people were just off their rockers.”
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“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

tags: indulgence, virtue

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“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

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“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

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“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

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