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Katy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Katy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Katy Grabel
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September 2024
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The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
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2025
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3 editions
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My Second Read...
And how cool is this.. Another 42 folks came to hear my read in a bookstore in town. I've been riding high on that for days. Feeling grateful to my community. And life in general.
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Katy Grabel:
Folks tend to think magic shows are about deception and hoodwinking people and I'm here to say that if a magician is good its an invitation to step outside our narrow limited view of things, and see the potentiality that's all around us. Unfortunatel
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Folks tend to think magic shows are about deception and hoodwinking people and I'm here to say that if a magician is good its an invitation to step outside our narrow limited view of things, and see the potentiality that's all around us. Unfortunatel
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| A wonderfully vivid tale of three Indian magi who are called west for the birth of a great soul. Multi-layered, thought-provoking, part adventure and philosophical exploration... An important read for spiritual seekers who want to understand the dawn ...more | |
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Thank you, Jennifer
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Totally understand. Appreciate your honest review.
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Hey James! Thank you for reading, reviewing and posting.
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Great review! Thank you!
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Thank you Kari for your most awesome review.
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| If you want to know how to live a life of surrender, then this is a must-read. This book is filled with short uplifting stories about how live in sync with a divine plan. If you offer your problems and desires to the Source, then you will be shown th ...more | |
“I was to learn that light didn’t really belong to me. In my father’s show I would be the lone dim figure holding a tray or a coin bucket in the dregs of his spotlight, but jumping out of that big gold top hat would always be mine. In many cold and cavernous theaters in strange towns, I would come to crave jumping out of that hat for that one moment when no one looked at my father—they looked at me.”
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
“Opening his mouth for all to see, he picked up the burning cigarette with his tongue. I held my breath.
It perched on the tip, a surfer on a wave, in perfect balance. Then he drew in his tongue and closed his mouth around it. From his lips he blew another waft of smoke, as if he had conceived smoke from
a flame deep within. He continued dancing the cigarette around his tongue, closing his mouth on it and blowing smoke. The air smoldered. No one said a word. I felt ash and heat in my mouth, smoke in my mouth.”
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
It perched on the tip, a surfer on a wave, in perfect balance. Then he drew in his tongue and closed his mouth around it. From his lips he blew another waft of smoke, as if he had conceived smoke from
a flame deep within. He continued dancing the cigarette around his tongue, closing his mouth on it and blowing smoke. The air smoldered. No one said a word. I felt ash and heat in my mouth, smoke in my mouth.”
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
“As soon as the show was over, we packed up the truck, moved to the next town, slept, unpacked at a new theater, and performed that night. Then the whole cycle started again. This is why a road man
longs for a steady booking. He wants a dressing room where he can hang his clothes and keep tins of stage makeup on his vanity. He wants his magic cronies stopping by his little apartment near the theater to play poker after the show, to sleep in till dusk, and sip a bowl of soup before showtime. A road man can never have that. Time and motion commands his being, blood, and bones. By the time he drives out of town his audiences will be home in bed. He lives on in dim, frosty memory and the dreamscape of strangers.”
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
longs for a steady booking. He wants a dressing room where he can hang his clothes and keep tins of stage makeup on his vanity. He wants his magic cronies stopping by his little apartment near the theater to play poker after the show, to sleep in till dusk, and sip a bowl of soup before showtime. A road man can never have that. Time and motion commands his being, blood, and bones. By the time he drives out of town his audiences will be home in bed. He lives on in dim, frosty memory and the dreamscape of strangers.”
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
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“Opening his mouth for all to see, he picked up the burning cigarette with his tongue. I held my breath.
It perched on the tip, a surfer on a wave, in perfect balance. Then he drew in his tongue and closed his mouth around it. From his lips he blew another waft of smoke, as if he had conceived smoke from
a flame deep within. He continued dancing the cigarette around his tongue, closing his mouth on it and blowing smoke. The air smoldered. No one said a word. I felt ash and heat in my mouth, smoke in my mouth.”
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
It perched on the tip, a surfer on a wave, in perfect balance. Then he drew in his tongue and closed his mouth around it. From his lips he blew another waft of smoke, as if he had conceived smoke from
a flame deep within. He continued dancing the cigarette around his tongue, closing his mouth on it and blowing smoke. The air smoldered. No one said a word. I felt ash and heat in my mouth, smoke in my mouth.”
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
“I was to learn that light didn’t really belong to me. In my father’s show I would be the lone dim figure holding a tray or a coin bucket in the dregs of his spotlight, but jumping out of that big gold top hat would always be mine. In many cold and cavernous theaters in strange towns, I would come to crave jumping out of that hat for that one moment when no one looked at my father—they looked at me.”
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
― The Magician's Daughter: A Memoir
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