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Carma Chan

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in Los Angeles, The United States

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https://gc-herzenity.blogspot.com/

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Poetry

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Most often, readers ask, "Who influenced you?"

I share Dr. King's dream.

Additionally, you can see my bookshelves here where I review and rate every book I remember reading.

Besides the Saardu series, which is my way of explaining death and the circle of life, I write of personal pain and overcoming. For example, "10 Most Annoying Things People Say to NICU Parents (...when they're only trying to help!)" Grief is universal, but each of us enters and exits it in our own ways.

My greatest literary influences are Professor Richard Walter, who teaches Advanced Screenwriting for MFA students at the UCLA film school. He taught me everything I needed to know about the ancient art of storytelling. The American poet, E.E. Cummings (don't lecture me abo ...more

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	Saardu: The Adventure Begins 2.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 5 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
	10 Most Annoying Things People Say to NICU Parents 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	Saardu 4 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 3 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
	1,017 Randomly Beautiful Moments in the American West: Haiku and Photography really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	Saardu 3: Deja Vu 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Mothers and Sons: How to Raise a Gentleman liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	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
	B is for Balloonist (Gramma Carmels Picture Books Book 2) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Polydimensional Honeymooners really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 3 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
	Cerebus ~ Under the Aardvarkian Spell it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 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
	Cerebus Film: An Epic Journey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	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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Saardu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The Complete Saardu Series, volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, are collected in one Amazon KDP version available March 3-9 at a promotional price.

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Revised, Corrected, and Expanded Edition)

by E.E. Cummings

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Carma said: " He is the father of free thinkers and all lovers. His poetics launched a whole new attitude and possibilities flourished because of his relentless courage to obliterate literary correctness. He dared to be different. He dared to be silly. He soars hi ...more "

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“Never hate, mon petit.”
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“It's time for a whole new myth!”
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“Telepathy is yummy, much in the way that a good horror story was.”
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“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“Things do not change; we change.”
― henry david thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
― Henry David Thoreau

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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: cost, life, price, time, value

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“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
― Pauline Kael

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