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Erica Ferencik
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November 2007
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The River at Night
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2017
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Girl in Ice
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2022
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18 editions
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Into the Jungle
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2019
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Repeaters
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2011
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Hot, Naked and Awake
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2014
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Cracks in the Foundation
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2008
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Radio My Way: Featuring Celebrity Profiles from Jazz, Opera, the American Songbook and More
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Q & A: Into the Jungle
Q&A with Erica Ferencik about her new novel, INTO THE JUNGLE
1) What is the book about?
Into the Jungle is a thriller about a young woman who falls in love with a Bolivian man and follows him to his remote jungle village in the Amazon rain forest where she must call on all her wits and resilience to survive. It’s also about the decimation of the rainforest by poachers and land-hungry corporations, a Read more of this blog post »
1) What is the book about?
Into the Jungle is a thriller about a young woman who falls in love with a Bolivian man and follows him to his remote jungle village in the Amazon rain forest where she must call on all her wits and resilience to survive. It’s also about the decimation of the rainforest by poachers and land-hungry corporations, a Read more of this blog post »
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“What did the mountains care about our plan to climb them, rafting the waters that divided them? They had eternity before us, and eternity after us. We were nothing to them.”
― The River at Night
― The River at Night
“The fact is, I’m a middle-aged woman who should have middle-aged concerns, but I don’t. Fear feels quaint somehow. I just don’t have any these days. Now when I swim, I feel powerful and sleek and swift. I delight in my mass, in all that water I displace. I am this joyous creature plunging into my element: water. What difference does it make how old I am or what jeans I can fit into or how fast my roots come in? My aging body, my dull job. I mean, really, who cares? I’m”
― The River at Night
― The River at Night
“The world we know is dwarfed by the worlds we don't. Why not explore them all? Being out there in the wilderness, you have no idea what'll happen, really. It could be just you and this gorgeous night sky, or maybe you are surfing and some big ass wave comes at you, and if you don't ride that sucker, it'll put you under and have you for lunch, or you might turn a corner on a hike and there's some beautiful deer and her little fawn-- now that has meaning, all of those things, and I need more of that and less of trying to make money so I can pay bills to live in a way I just don't care about anymore.”
― The River at Night
― The River at Night
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| The Challenge Fac...: BOOK it to the finish line! - March 2017 | 31 | 69 | Mar 30, 2017 05:12PM | |
| The Challenge Fac...: Islands of the World - the Galápagos | 16 | 44 | Mar 31, 2017 10:09PM | |
| The Challenge Fac...: March TCF Monthly Challenge | 34 | 110 | Apr 01, 2017 06:02AM |
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
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“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.”
― A Natural History of the Senses
― A Natural History of the Senses
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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Thank you so much Erica for friending me on Goodreads.Blessings to you.
It sounds kind of sweet, actually, esp in the context you describe. Perhaps better than "Locust." The reason I used it for my character is that, as you may remember, Ginger was trying to name her baby, was eating a p&b sandwich and read "Harvest Bread" on the loaf and thought it sounded good...I think (forgeting my book for the moment) that it could be a boy's or a girl's name, and could always default to Harvey which is an endearing sort of name to me.
Hey, Ebgf! I think my cousin in Kansas might name her 4th kid Harvest. She asked me if it was a girl's name or a boy's name. They live where the world's longest grain elevators are and the whole town goes through maybe 4 harvests per year. All the husbands are working day and night for weeks. So: do you think a boy could get by with a name like Harvest?
