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Bethel Swift
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Marketing my first book and getting ready to open up my press to Submissions for a body positive poetry anthology!
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"DNF at 47%. I just couldn't gather the desire to come back to this book. I love post-apocalyptic settings and I've heard such great things about Butler as well as enjoying at least one of her other novels but I just didn't like this. The writing was "
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"After immensely enjoying Octavia Butler's Kindred, I was deeply disappointed by Parable of the Sower. Perhaps the fault lies with my expectations. Understanding that this is an "apocalypse"-type book, I still somehow thought it would convey a hopeful"
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"Okay, I didn't utterly hate this book, but there was nothing I liked about it either. There is really no point of high tension at all in the plot; it's just blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and guess what even more blah blah blah blah blah blah bla"
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| REALLY wanted to like this book. The topic, timeline, and premise were really interesting but unfortunately the story did not really deliver. Very slow moving and too much telling and not enough action so I only made it about 50 percent through. | |
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This book may well connect with teens and readers of affirmational works, though it was not to my taste. Overall the messages are positive and meant to be empowering so, while it wasn't for me, I'd endorse it for any young person interested in writin ...more |
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| This one started really strong: effortlessly flowing between past and present, action and reflection, showing and story telling--but towards the middle you start to realize that certain things are not ever going to be revealed and that this really is ...more | |
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
“So much longing.
So many lives
filled
with longing.
It's what stories―
all our stories―
are made of.
And what is longing
made of
except hope?”
― Little Dog, Lost
So many lives
filled
with longing.
It's what stories―
all our stories―
are made of.
And what is longing
made of
except hope?”
― Little Dog, Lost
“You should know better than to run from a storm, too. We wolves are careful. Always we are careful. But we are not afraid. Not of our own good world.(pp. 48)”
― Runt
― Runt
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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