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Melora Johnson
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Madeleine L'Engle, Agatha Christie, Frank Herbert, Neil Gaiman, Dougla
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| I was taken with the cast of characters, sheep like Miss Maple, obviously a nod to Miss Marple from author Agatha Christie. Names like Sir Ritchfield, Zora, and Othello also give the sheep a thoughtful feel with a nod to other literature. Other sheep ...more | |
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I found the perfect antihero book for me, a murder mystery where the hero is (was?) a serial killer. Now, Carol has largely left this hobby in the past, but she still doesn’t see killing people as really wrong. She’s done 35 years in prison and just b ...more |
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One of the things I love most about this book is how there are little revelations in nearly every chapter. The story begins in Los Angeles where Lucy’s past has just been uncovered and she is fired from her job. She’s also concerned her boyfriend is g ...more |
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| It all started on the American frontier of Kentucky and Tennessee. Wiley and Micajah Harp killed dozens of people in rather vicious ways, as some sort of vendetta for the difficulties life had handed them, as though taking revenge on society at large ...more | |
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| A fantastic read, alternating heartbreaking situations with comic relief and memorable characters. I felt like crying at the sheer joy of it all when I finished it. | |
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Pranks, Poitín, and Púcas (Skye O'Shea Paranormal Cozy Mystery #3)
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Skye O’Shea inherited a lovely old pub in Ireland from her Gran, in the coastal town of Ballybas, but she also inherited the task of protecting the town from the Good Folk. But the renovations seem to spark with trouble. It doesn’t help that Skye seem ...more |
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“Outbuildings stand slant-sided, unable to resist the ravages of winter while, older still, a barn that could squats solidly in the middle of a field.”
― A Sanctuary Built of Words: Poems of Peace, Grief, and Passion
― A Sanctuary Built of Words: Poems of Peace, Grief, and Passion
“When it hurts the most, just like a physical pain, keep on breathing through.”
― A Sanctuary Built of Words: Poems of Peace, Grief, and Passion
― A Sanctuary Built of Words: Poems of Peace, Grief, and Passion
“Speak to me of your anxieties. You don't always have to be so positive, the strong one.”
― A Sanctuary Built of Words: Poems of Peace, Grief, and Passion
― A Sanctuary Built of Words: Poems of Peace, Grief, and Passion
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
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“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
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“By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry...”
― Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
― Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
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