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Suzanne Thackston

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Suz Thackston is a strange old mystic who has always been obsessed with horses and cannot resist a myth or faery tale. After homeschooling her now-grown sons, she has time to talk to trees, listen to the voices of the woods and rivers and write stories. She lives on a little farm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Maryland with her nice husband, a sweet dog, a couple of indolent mares and too many bossy cats. She can be found wandering in starlight and mist most nights. At some point she'll absent-mindedly step through a tree door or a looking glass or a deceptive pond and disappear into Other. It's really where she belongs. ...more

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Suzanne Thackston I’ve wanted to do this my whole life, but made a gazillion excuses as to why I couldn’t. 60 is late in life to make a dream come true, but being a wri…moreI’ve wanted to do this my whole life, but made a gazillion excuses as to why I couldn’t. 60 is late in life to make a dream come true, but being a writer is thrilling, exhausting, incredible and terrifying. Every single day I walk into my studio I’m overcome with gratitude that it’s happening. (less)
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Still pissed off at the shock ending that he hasn't got around to resolving yet.
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The Abduction of Rosalind Thorne by Darcie Wilde
"ARC received from NetGalley- thank you!!

I need tea and small sandwiches stat and also I want to take care of the world's saddest and most decrepit racehorse. Review to come!"
The Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan
"This was delightful, and I would happily read more adventures (especially heists!) in this world with these characters. I especially liked the relationships portrayed here: the eccentric mentor and the receptive friend-to-lover. This made the whole s" Read more of this review »
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This lovely book has all the outrageously gorgeous writing that keeps PAM's books front and center in my heart. It's absolutely staying on my shelf.
That being said, it has a slight feel of a vanity project, or something that she just wanted to write
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The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia A. McKillip
"Patricia, I'm going to have to put my foot down: I know you looove the idea of harpers/bards/minstrels, but enough already. One author can only write so many stories about bards before it becomes a little embarrassing. And repetitive. Hey, I still en" Read more of this review »
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This was my first ever McMurtry and remains one of my favorites. It's slow, and sweet, and sad, and funny. Will always have a place on my shelf.
I feel Molly. Rooted to the place she loves and the people she loves above all.
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Stephen  King
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.”
Stephen King

Sylvia Townsend Warner
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

Aeschylus
“They came back
To widows,
To fatherless children,
To screams, to sobbing.
The men came back
As little clay jars
Full of sharp cinders.”
Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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Suzanne Thackston ha ha! i love your furry feral metaphors! at least they're not those awful ADVERBS!!!!
::::delicate shudder:::::::


Elizabeth thaaaaaank you for getting me back on here! I was lost in the forest, picking up whatever random great reads grew wild, and look - here are acres of cultivated fields, and a map to find whatever you will! :) sorry. addicted to metaphors :)


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