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Chanel Earl

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Chanel Earl is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated writer of short fiction and essays. She has an MFA in creative writing from Brigham Young University, where she teaches writing to undergraduates. Her stories and essays have appeared in such publications as Smokelong Quarterly, Granfalloon, The Account, and Wayfare Magazine. In addition to reading and writing, she also loves eating, gardening, repurposing old into new, and spending time with her husband and four children.

Follow her on Instagram: @chanels.stories


Average rating: 4.44 · 50 ratings · 9 reviews · 13 distinct works
Three Line Poetry, Issue #6

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The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Annie Raser-Rowland
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This is a good, fun reminder to live according to your means and according to the limits of the earth.

The lifestyle this book encourages isn't particularly hedonistic, but it is lovely.

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Reread 2026: I revisited this because we are working on frugal
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This is fun and full of meaning!
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I'm glad I read this. I enjoyed it, and I learned a lot.

I do wish it had covered religion just a little bit, that it had acknowledged the fact that many people believe they receive moral direction from God or a supernatural source, and that there are
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I didn't finish this one. I think it is straight-up pornography. But I do like Nesta, Cassian, and the parts of the story that I didn't skip.

On a second read, I appreciated this much more. There is a lot of good fantasy here. Nesta's journey is movin
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We Should Be Somewhere by Now by Stephen Tuttle
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This book is great! I read one of these stories years ago (Blight) and then forgot where I had read it and what it was called, and spent more time than I would have liked to trying to Google back into it with my poor memory of the details. So, I am v ...more
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Delightful! A beautiful book grounded in folk ballads and sisterly love. The audiobook reader is magical!
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Book Bloggers of ...: Review Request 2 25 Nov 25, 2011 06:32AM  
Marilynne Robinson
“There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

C.S. Lewis
“It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

Douglas R. Hofstadter
“Meaning lies as much
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Marilynne Robinson
“Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.”
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
tags: life

Douglas Adams
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

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