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D.A. Baden

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I work in the area of sustainability and climate change, and the more you know the scarier it is. Like the sun, you can’t look too closely at it, but face to one side, you make your way, because in fact, it’s easy to put everything right. All the solutions are right here, they just have to catch on. Walking lightly and mindfully upon the earth is so doable. I started writing as therapy, with green solutions as the main ingredient, stories to soothe my soul. Then my characters and their stories took over centre stage, leaving the green solutions to season the stew.

I set up the series of free Green Stories writing competitions in 2018 to inspire writers to create positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like, to tell stories ...more

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Average rating: 4.05 · 129 ratings · 53 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Habitat Man 3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save the Planet by D.A. Baden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kim Stanley Robinson, Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 52 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Assassin 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Philosopher and the Assassin 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save Our Planet: Mini Taster it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Uncork The Suzuki DR-Z250 For Under $100! really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No More Fairy Tales: Stories to Save our Planet by Matthew Hanson-Kahn, Brian Burt (Goodreads Author), Sara Foster 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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D.A. Baden rated a book it was amazing What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A fascinating premise - reading about current times through the lens of a historian 100 years in the future. It was amusing eventually when we find out how much the historian got right and how much he got wrong. I'd have liked a little more about the ...more
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D.A. Baden rated a book really liked it It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1) by Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's a while since I read in the romance genre and this I enjoyed this more than most. Great writing, the sex scenes were simmering hot and unlike most books in this genre I really wasn't sure how it would turn out. The ending though was perfect. ...more
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D.A. Baden rated a book really liked it It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1) by Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
It's a while since I read in the romance genre and this I enjoyed this more than most. Great writing, the sex scenes were simmering hot and unlike most books in this genre I really wasn't sure how it would turn out. The ending though was perfect. ...more
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D.A. Baden rated a book it was ok A Death on Location (Canon Clement, #4) by Richard Coles	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I enjoyed the tv series but I can't get on with RIchard Coles' books. I like a bit of cosy crime but perhaps these are just too cosy and I found I just didn't care whodunnit. It's the second of his I started and didn't finish - not for me. ...more
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D.A. Baden rated a book it was ok A Death on Location (Canon Clement, #4) by Richard Coles	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I enjoyed the tv series but I can't get on with RIchard Coles' books. I like a bit of cosy crime but perhaps these are just too cosy and I found I just didn't care whodunnit. It's the second of his I started and didn't finish - not for me. ...more
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D.A. Baden rated a book liked it I Know It’s You by Susan Lewis	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I'm not a great fan of novels about people who live in the lap of luxury and just take that for granted. ...more
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D.A. Baden rated a book really liked it Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Great premise and kept me engaged right till the end.
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At the start I found it hard to engage with the protagonists life that had gone so badly downhill so it was quite amusing when the protagonist (who is an author herself) has to suffer her publisher telling her to liven things up a bit. She does and s ...more
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