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PATRICK CANNING is the author of the novels For Your Benefit (2024), Cryptonalia (2021), Hawthorn Woods (2020), The Colonel and the Bee (2018), and Cryptofauna (2018).

His work often blends genres, combining elements of humor, adventure, fantasy, and mystery into stories with imaginative settings, quirky characters, and typos.

Patrick lives in Chicago with his Australian Shepherd, Hank. When he isn’t writing, he enjoys walks on the lakefront, being excited/worrying about AI, and eating his bodyweight in potatoes.

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	Five Fantastic Short Stories by Patrick Canning (Goodreads Author), Evan Cohen (Illustrator), Garrett Marco (Editor) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015	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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5 Books to Help You Survive 2020

Participation is an absolute requirement in consuming a book—your attention and effort are the engine of the experience. The only way out, is through.

The same can be said for difficult times.

With so many stressors I don’t have the word count allowance to list them all, 2020 has turned out to be a challenging year for all of us, and we still have a ways to go. The only way out, is through.

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Published on October 21, 2020 16:48 • Tags: 2020, bill-bryson, book-list, carl-sagan, james-baldwin, judy-blume, sherlock-holmes, sir-arthur-conan-doyle, what-to-read

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“Die! No, no!’ He cried. ‘It was not worth living so long, and suffering so much, to die now. Death was welcome previously when I made a resolution to meet it, many years ago. But now it would truly be conceding too much to my miserable fate. No, I want to live, I want to struggle to the end. No, I want to recover the happiness that has been taken away from me. I am forgetting that, before I die, I have my enemies to punish and, who knows?—perhaps a few friends to reward.”
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