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Edeet Ravel

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Edeet Ravel is the author of sixteen books for children and adults. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and have won numerous awards, including the Hugh MacLennan Book Award, the J.I. Segal Award, the Canadian Jewish Book Award (in two categories), the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, and the Snow Willow Award. Edeet's books have also been shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Book Prize, and the Arthur Ellis Crime Award. Edeet was a three-time Governor General's Award finalist in two categories. Her novel The Saver (Groundwood) was adapted into film by Wiebke von Carolsfeld. Her latest (crossover) novels are A Boy Is Not a Bird and A Boy Is Not a Ghost, about a chil ...more

Average rating: 3.66 · 3,734 ratings · 523 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors
Held

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3.69 avg rating — 1,185 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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Ten Thousand Lovers (Tel Av...

3.76 avg rating — 1,135 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
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The Cat

3.72 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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A Wall of Light (Tel Aviv T...

3.46 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions
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Look for Me (Tel Aviv Trilo...

3.50 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions
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Your Sad Eyes and Unforgett...

3.53 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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A Boy Is Not a Bird

3.90 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions
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The Saver

3.33 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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A Boy Is Not a Ghost

4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions
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The Last Rain

2.68 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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Edeet’s Recent Updates

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
"Note to all relevant parties : This book made me laugh and cry. I absolutely fell in love with the characters!


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PROBABLY HOW NOT TO READ MARCEL PROUST

In series three of The Sopranos, Tony tells his therapist about his latest fainting sp" Read more of this review »
Crow by Ted Hughes
"Timeline

Suicide of Ted Hughes’s wife Sylvia Plath, 1963
Suicide of Ted Hughes’ current partner Assia Wevill, 1969
Publication of Crow, 1970


This is the context for the screeching brutality, ugliness and relentless howling nastiness of Crow and its pictu" Read more of this review »
Edeet Ravel and 120 other people liked Paul Bryant's review of The Road:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
"FROM THE BLURB

Jam-packed with information on exploring the great wide world and just having fun, the award-winning author Cormac McCarthy and his young son have left no stone unturned in their search for the very best adventures and attractions for " Read more of this review »
Edeet Ravel and 120 other people liked Paul Bryant's review of Spin (Spin, #1):
Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
"(note - satirical spoiler alerts ahoy)

Robert Charles Wilson appears to be paid by the word - how else to account for such passages, and they are legion, as this :

The day I left Perihelion the support staff summoned me into one of the now seldom-used " Read more of this review »
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña
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Decoding Dylan by Domenico Erico De Luca
" I am one of your biggest fans, Paul, but even in jest, please do not give any sort of legitimacy to the dangerous use of the phrase "Trump Derangement ...more "
The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald
" Hilarious! Wittiest reviewer on GR. "
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“People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.”
― Edeet Ravel, Ten Thousand Lovers

“I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.”
― Edeet Ravel

“Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.”
― Edeet Ravel, Held

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