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Deb Spera
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in Louisville, Ky., The United States
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Wendell Berry, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stegner, Pau
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May 2018
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Gratitude
It's a daunting thing to publish a novel. I wasn't sure what to expect. I had high hopes and low expectations, I've found life works better for me this way. What I've learned is that trying any creative venture offers many gifts along the way. This book is no exception The gifts this book has given me are numerous: new friends, connection with family I'd not had before, travel, readers who are tho
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| I thought it captured the social media trend and mental illness very well. The structure was clever. At the end of the day, however, I didn't care about a single soul. Not even the children. ...more | |
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| I thought this book was masterfully done. I know I tend to be lenient with my stars, but writing a book is hard, folks. When I read one that pulls me in, one that I don't want to put down, one that I appreciate the structure of, well, it deserves all ...more | |
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| Silas House is a writer who grows with each book he writes. He's always been a good writer, but this one may be his best. The characters leap off the page, and the setting, in both Kentucky and New York, is so concise that you feel like you are there ...more | |
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| I honestly believe this could be one of the most well-crafted stories I've ever read. I couldn't put this book down. I had a copy that I read, and I listened to the audio while driving. I didn't love Franco as the reader; there was so much more in th ...more | |
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| Harrison Scott captures the south and the characters who inhabit it so well I felt like I was home. I highly recommend this hilariously moving memoir. | |
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“Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over. I don’t know why I was surprised when the children grew up, but I was. I thought, in their youth, it would last forever. Now I see that it was my youth, not theirs that was speaking. The past is now and now and now.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“No. None of us get what we deserve. We make the best of what we got.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Reading Glasses -...: Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera! | 2 | 45 | Jun 15, 2019 09:09AM | |
| Busy as a Bee Books: 06/11/19: Book News | 5 | 8 | Jun 17, 2019 12:10PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: June 2019 Scattergories | 70 | 53 | Jul 02, 2019 11:59AM | |
On the Southern L...:
Now accepting nominations for our September, 2019, Group Reads
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