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Jennifer Bushroe once swore on a statue of Peter Pan that she’d never grow up. She fulfills this oath daily by dancing like nobody's watching, eating dessert before dinner, and writing fiction and poetry. You can find her work in On Spec, DreamForge Magazine, Mermaids Monthly, and more.

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Once my story/book is published, it is no longer mine—it is yours, the reader’s—and thus I feel I don’t belong in the conversational space on my books’ pages. I don't rate my own books (or anthologies I appear in), I don’t read reviews, I don’t answer questions on the page itself (only ones asked on my profile page), so that everyone who engages with my work--no matter your opinion--can do so without fear of me seeing/responding.

Even though I don’t write rev Jennifer Bushroe once swore on a statue of Peter Pan that she’d never grow up. She fulfills this oath daily by dancing like nobody's watching, eating dessert before dinner, and writing fiction and poetry. You can find her work in On Spec, DreamForge Magazine, Mermaids Monthly, and more.

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Once my story/book is published, it is no longer mine—it is yours, the reader’s—and thus I feel I don’t belong in the conversational space on my books’ pages. I don't rate my own books (or anthologies I appear in), I don’t read reviews, I don’t answer questions on the page itself (only ones asked on my profile page), so that everyone who engages with my work--no matter your opinion--can do so without fear of me seeing/responding.

Even though I don’t write reviews, I still rate most of the books I read because being honest about my tastes is how I’ll find other books I’ll love, both through Goodreads’s algorithms and recommendations from friends. I’m here primarily as a reader who has poor long-term memory and loves how Goodreads helps keeps track of all the books I’ve read/want to read!

About my ratings: 3 stars means I enjoyed the book; 4 stars means I couldn’t put it down (or put it down reluctantly at 3 a.m.); 5 stars means it made me laugh and/or cry and I was in awe of the writer’s skill. But I also have to admit that I average my scores (ex: a 4-star beginning with a 2-star ending is disappointing, but that book still gets a 3). And sometimes I’ll rate a book with 4 stars and then come back later and bump it up to 5, because if I’m thinking about it days/weeks/months later, that’s the sign of a great story. Whenever I reread a book, I post the higher rating—whether from my original impression or the reread. No rating doesn't necessarily mean I disliked it--I'm still logging books I read before I got my Goodreads account, so sometimes it just means I don't remember how I felt about that book.

About my “best-books-ever” shelf: If I adored a book on the 1st reading, I’ll give it 5 stars. But only upon a 2nd reading—which I hardly ever do—can a book transcend to the “best-books-ever” shelf if it is just as good the 2nd time around. These books are the literary equivalent of waffles (and boy, do I love waffles).

All in all, I take the rating system very seriously. Authors pour a lot of time and effort and love into their work, and I never want to hurt anyone’s feelings. So take my ratings with a grain of salt and try out the books I love as well as the books I didn’t connect with, because I would hate for you to miss out on the opportunity to fall in love with a story. ...more

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	The 2021 Rhysling Anthology by Alessandro Manzetti (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Linda D. Addison, Colleen Anderson (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2021	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
	Seers and Sibyls by M.J. Pankey (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Leggett (Illustrator), Kayla Whittle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.56 avg rating — 18 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
	The Future Fire #49: Poetry Special by Djibril al-Ayad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Victoria Feistner (Goodreads Author), Petra Kuppers (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 3 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
	The Future Fire #51 by Djibril al-Ayad (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Saleha Chowdhury (Illustrator), Lisa Cai (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Unsettling Wonder Issue 6: Tales of Kismet by John Patrick Pazdziora (Editor), Defne Çizakça (Editor), Eli Bezimansky (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 2 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
	Dreamforge Magazine: Hope of the Dreamers; Volume 7, December 2020 by Scot Noel (Editor), Maria Zoccola (Goodreads Author), Jane Noel (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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 Literary Hatchet #26 by Stefani Koorey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugene Hosey (Editor), Michael Brimbau (Editor) 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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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
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“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

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“Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit... Finally I write because I'm scared of writing, but I'm more scared of not writing.”
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