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Rachel Nightingale

Goodreads Author

Born

Australia

Website

http://www.rachel-nightingale.info

Twitter

NightingaleRA

Genre

Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

Influences

Ursula Le Guin, Susan Cooper, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne J ...more

Member Since

August 2012

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Rachel Nightingale was a highly imaginative child who used to pretend she was wandering the woods looking for adventures on her way home from school. Once she understood creating stories gave her magical powers she decided to become a writer. Some years, and many diversions later, she is an award-winning playwright, and the author of The Tales of Tarya trilogy, a fantasy series published by Odyssey Books. Having survived improv theatre, travelled the world and immersed herself endlessly in research and creative practice, she often finds herself at the mercy of stories that demand to be written.

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Average rating: 4.7 · 130 ratings · 84 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Harlequin's Riddle 4.53 avg rating — 55 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
	Creating Cinderella by K.A. Miltimore (Goodreads Author) (Editor & Author), Nataša Xerri (Goodreads Author), Helen Whistberry (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 30 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
	Columbine's Tale 4.83 avg rating — 24 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
	Pierrot's Song it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 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
	Temporal Fractures by T.C. Phillips (Goodreads Author), Mike Adamson, Taine Andrews it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2018	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
	Where the Weird Things Are Volume 2 (Where the Weird Things Are, #2) by Clare Rhoden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Austin P. Sheehan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dane Divine 4.17 avg rating — 6 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
	The Tales of Tarya (complete series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Key West: Composition Notebook College Ruled Line Paper. A great sketchbook journal for adults, students, people who love visiting Florida. Perfect for scheduling, planning, writing or travel guide 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Raluana Lane 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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Book Review: An Interview with Anne Rice

Riley, M. (1996). Conversations with Anne Rice. Chatto and Windus.

Anne Rice burst onto the world literary scene in 1976 with the publication of her first novel, Interview with the Vampire. The book had a very simple premise: a young reporter interviews a mysterious stranger, Louis, who recounts his life story. Louis, it turns out, is a vampire, and has been alive since the 1700s. He was turned by

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Rachel’s Quotes

“Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: humor, life, metaphor, zen

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“Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.”
― Jim Butcher, Changes

tags: changes, drinking, harry-dresden, laughter, sanity, sanya

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“You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.”
― Jim Butcher, Summer Knight

tags: elaine-mallory, harry-dresden, humor

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“What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.”
― David Malouf, An Imaginary Life

tags: life, self

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“Always to be pushing out like this, beyond what I know cannot be the limits - what else should a man's life be?”
― David Malouf, An Imaginary Life

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