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Laura Monagan

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Genre

Historical Fiction, Memoir

Influences

Amelia Earhart, Joni Mitchell, Jane Siberry, Vaclav Havel, Oliver Sack ...more

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May 2015

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Laura Monagan is a writer, educator, and lifelong adventurer who believes in the power of story to illuminate courage, connection, and the surprising places we find home.

Her memoir, A Strange Place Called Home: My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March , chronicles her journey on foot across the United States—a transformative experience that set the tone for the rest of her writing life. She is also the author of two novels: The Unaccompanied Tour , a mother-daughter reunion story unfolding in the shadow of a nuclear holocaust, and Blues for the Unsung Queen , a richly imagined historical novel that brings Queen Dido of Carthage to life.

The spark for Blues for the Unsung Queen ignited while Laura was living in Tunisia, no ...more

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Average rating: 4.68 · 22 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Unaccompanied Tour 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 4 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
	Blues for the Unsung Queen it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 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
	A Strange Place Called Home: My Walk Across America on the Great Peace March 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 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

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Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

by Anthony de Mello

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Laura Monagan rated a book it was ok A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (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
I remember reading somewhere that if an author presents certain touch points in the writing, the reader will fill the spaces in-between with imagination. Thus, the reader brings her own creativity to the story and finds satisfaction in participating ...more
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Laura Monagan rated a book it was amazing City of Thieves by David Benioff	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 couldn't get enough of this story. The protagonist is set an impossible task that he must achieve under life-treatening circumstances with an unlikely traveling companion. Like Gilgamesh and Enkidu, these two journey together as their characters ar ...more
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Laura Monagan rated a book did not like it Skinny Dip (Skink, #5; Mick Stranahan #2) by Carl Hiaasen (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
I really wanted to care about these characters because the premise sounded promising, but none of them did anything that I found interesting or endearing or amusing or consequential. The author's tone was snarky, which could work, but instead it just ...more
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Laura Monagan rated a book it was amazing The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers	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
As a person who grew up in a musical family, I enjoyed The Time of Our Singing even more than I did The Overstory. Powers takes the reader deep into the lives of a family blessed by musical (and mathematical) talent but shunned by a society in the th ...more
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