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S.C.’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at S.C.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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S.C. Skillman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Farnborough, Kent, The United Kingdom
Website
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Influences
Susan Howatch, Phil Rickman, Neil Gaiman
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Member Since
March 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/sheilarobinson1
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Mystical Circles
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2010
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Paranormal Warwickshire
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A Passionate Spirit
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2015
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5 editions
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Perilous Path: A Writer's Journey
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Illustrated Tales of Warwickshire
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Sea, Beach, and Sky on the North Cornish Coast
Today I return to the subject of the sea. I was there a few weeks ago, and how one can long for the sea, especially living in the middle of the UK as I now do!
This area of Warwickshire has many joys – close to major historic sites such as Kenilworth Castle, and areas of great beauty like the Cotswolds and the Malverns. It’s also very handy for Shakespeare’s town of Stratford-upon-Avon, and the Roy
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| I devoured this, the 16th book in the Merrily Watkins series, within a few days of buying it and loved it. I admit I hardly wanted to read to the end because, as someone who has read through the entire series in order as the books came out, it felt s ...more | |
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| I devoured this, the 16th book in the Merrily Watkins series, within a few days of buying it and loved it. I admit I hardly wanted to read to the end because, as someone who has read through the entire series in order as the books came out, it felt s ...more | |
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| This is a very fluent and engaging collection of blog posts that the author has in the past published online, on three separate blogs: her own personal blog, Authors Electric, and More Than Writers. Overall, they give us a tapestry of the author’s li ...more | |
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This is a delightful collection of lively, intriguing bitesize murder mysteries with a sparkling variety of characters, and devious, twisted back stories. Ranging from US to Scottish settings, each of these tales tell a tasty, but disturbing, story of ...more |
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| I loved this quirky novel, set in London and Wales. I’m fascinated by the author’s close knowledge of sheep husbandry and the Welsh landscape. On top of that, the character and predicament of the main protagonist, Gordon, engages all my sympathies an ...more | |
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| This novel is set in a Catholic community in the Monaro Plains, south east of Sydney. The weary first person narrator, separated from her husband, moves there from Sydney, initially for a short-term retreat. Having left and returned home, she later r ...more | |
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“This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this...sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted...why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim”
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from Lord Jim”
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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