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R.L.’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at R.L.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
R.L. Maizes’s Followers (227)
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R.L. Maizes
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August 2012
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Other People's Pets
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2020
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We Love Anderson Cooper
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2019
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4 editions
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A Complete Fiction
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A Cat Called Grievous
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Tattoo
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New Book: A Complete Fiction
I have a new book coming out this fall:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Here's what Bethany Ball, author of What To Do About the Solomons and The Pessimists, had to say about it:
“Fast-paced and tightly wrought, R.L. Maizes’ new novel, A Complete Fiction, goes right to the mercenary hearts of two writers and with humor and pathos manages to skewer the publishing industry and the pressure co Read more of this blog post »
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Here's what Bethany Ball, author of What To Do About the Solomons and The Pessimists, had to say about it:
“Fast-paced and tightly wrought, R.L. Maizes’ new novel, A Complete Fiction, goes right to the mercenary hearts of two writers and with humor and pathos manages to skewer the publishing industry and the pressure co Read more of this blog post »
R.L.’s Recent Updates
"So many twists! So funny! So thought-provoking! This is a book you’ll thoroughly enjoy and press on your friends so you can talk about it together."
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"Katrina Denza’s debut collection, Burner and Other Stories, is a powerful and moving portrait of relationships—warts, harsh words, divorce, and all. You’ll probably recognize these characters as your neighbors, friends, or family, going through the c"
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"Ok, I wrote this book, so I'm not objective.
But what I want you to get from it is a sense that our world is not merely material (though the material can certainly be amazing!) We are surrounded by love, all of us, even in pain, even in loss. And we h" Read more of this review » |
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"A propulsive page-turner, RL Maizes's second novel is also a complex and deeply humane take on our 21st century predicament living in the age of social media. A tale of two writers hopelessly entangled in a question of whose story is whose, and who g"
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I loved the novel Fancy Meeting You so much, I gave the author a blurb: Sharply funny, brutally honest, and surprising in the best possible ways, Louise Marburg’s novel, Fancy Meeting You, entertains as it enlightens. Her portrait of a woman stuck is ...more |
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| Crazy Challenge C...: The Year in Astrology | 386 | 182 | Jul 09, 2020 08:45PM | |
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| Crazy Challenge C...: 2019 Fall Seasonal Challenge | 108 | 95 | Jan 26, 2021 01:05PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: Hurricanes | 583 | 163 | Feb 13, 2025 03:46PM | |
| Edelweiss & Netga...: * 2025 Book Reviews | 708 | 51 | Nov 26, 2025 07:52AM |
“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.”
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“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
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“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”
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“Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”
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