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Jan Underwood

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Margaret Atwood; Ursula LeGuin; Barbara Kingsolver

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May 2013


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Jan Underwood I'm afraid my answer is a cliché, but I really would like to go live in the Shire, in Hobbiton or thereabouts, if I could visit in a time of peace. I …moreI'm afraid my answer is a cliché, but I really would like to go live in the Shire, in Hobbiton or thereabouts, if I could visit in a time of peace. I would take long rambling walks and tend a garden, and read at home and have tea with my hobbit friends. I visit frequently in my mind, and have my whole life, since long before the movies came out. I suppose if I visited now, the place would be overrun with LoTR fans.(less)
Jan Underwood I'm getting ready to launch a new novel, Fault Lines, set in the fictitious South American country of Santa María. You can read a blurb and short exce…moreI'm getting ready to launch a new novel, Fault Lines, set in the fictitious South American country of Santa María. You can read a blurb and short excerpt on my website: https://www.funnylittlenovels.com/nov...

I'm also on the second-draft stage of another novel about an indigenous community and a group of cenobitic Catholic monks who share an island.(less)
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Day Shift Werewolf

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Utterly Heartless

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H. Allen Smith
“Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.”
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Czesław Miłosz
“Tomber amoureux. To fall in love. Does it occur suddenly or gradually? If gradually, when is the moment “already”? I would fall in love with a monkey made of rags. With a plywood squirrel. With a botanical atlas. With an oriole. With a ferret. With a marten in a picture. With the forest one sees to the right when riding in a cart to Jaszuny. With a poem by a little-known poet. With human beings whose names still move me. And always the object of love was enveloped in erotic fantasy or was submitted, as in Stendhal, to a “cristallisation,” so it is frightful to think of that object as it was, naked among the naked things, and of the fairy tales about it one invents. Yes, I was often in love with something or someone. Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love. That is something different.”
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