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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)
Suzanne Thackston Nothing new here. I work for Nora Roberts at her gift shop in Boonsboro, which doesn’t actually give me access to her but her work ethic is awesome an…moreNothing new here. I work for Nora Roberts at her gift shop in Boonsboro, which doesn’t actually give me access to her but her work ethic is awesome and inspiring. Sit your ass in the chair and write. Often what you write will be ghastly, but you can fix that. You can’t fix a blank page. (less)
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The Ship Who Sang by Anne McCaffrey
"It was Thanksgiving, I was out of town, had just gotten ready to head out for dinner when I heard that Anne McCaffrey had passed. It hit me like a punch in the gut. I couldn't quite shake it all evening. What was going on? Sure, I've read her books b" Read more of this review »
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Read it years and years ago and remember liking it, but can't remember jack about it. Re-reading now, my bubble bath book.
Leaving the four star, although it might be closer to a three. I love Tanith Lee's writing hard, so that never goes away. The sh
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Cavaliered to Death by C.B.  Wilson
"Delightful. Cozy mystery set in the town of dog-centric Barkview. I feared this would be gimmicky (there's a series of insert-dog breed here "to death" books), but the gimmick works! Attention to character arch and a few interwoven plot points plus m" Read more of this review »
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It has been a while since I read this, but I've watched the series often enough (up to season 5) that it was nice to get back to Martin's original story.

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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.”
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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.”
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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!!!!
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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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