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Roxanne Halpine Ward graduated from the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a past attendee of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Her poetry has appeared in the Georgia Review, Greensboro Review, and the Sow's Ear Poetry Review, among others, and her chapbook, This Electric Glow, is available from Seven Kitchens Press.

Roxanne is an editor with 20+ years of experience working with different types of prose. She is also an avid reader and book reviewer, with reviews in Rain Taxi Review of Books, CALYX, and Poet Lore. She lives and works near Philadelphia.

Roxanne is also a registered yoga teacher - to learn more, visit her yoga website at http://roxdoesyoga.com.
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This Electric Glow

4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Erak's Ransom
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Roxanne Roxanne said: " Original review from 2010: This was fun, like all these books are. Our friend from earlier books, Erak the Oberjarl of the Skandians, gets kidnapped by the desert people, and Will and his friends go to pay the ransom and get him back -- but of course ...more "

 
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Erak's Ransom by John Flanagan
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Original review from 2010: This was fun, like all these books are. Our friend from earlier books, Erak the Oberjarl of the Skandians, gets kidnapped by the desert people, and Will and his friends go to pay the ransom and get him back -- but of course ...more
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A ​Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
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Reread in October 2026. I think the spicy scenes overshadow the trauma-recovery arc and character development a bit. I didn't even remember the fairies doing yoga on the roof.

Original review from 2022: I love this series and really enjoyed this. Maa
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A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
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A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
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Reread Oct 2026: I still like this book a lot but Rhys and Feyre really were disgusting.

Reread, December 2019: I really wanted to reread this around the holidays.

Original review, May 2018: Oh, I really enjoyed this. It was really refreshing to read
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A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
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Reread in Oct 2026. While this remains one of my favorite books in the series, this time I was struck by: toilets. Running water. I guess I could buy that the fae have enchanted plumbing, but the former humans weren't at all surprised or confused or ...more
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A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
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A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
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Reread in Oct 2026. While this remains one of my favorite books in the series, this time I was struck by: toilets. Running water. I guess I could buy that the fae have enchanted plumbing, but the former humans weren't at all surprised or confused or ...more
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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
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Reread in Oct 2026.

Reread in June 2019. A lot of fun to reread with the knowledge that Feyre doesn’t have about what’s going on and how her future will unfold.

Original review from Oct 2017: This was really compelling; once it got going, I had troub
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Tough Guy by Rachel  Reid
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The only way this could’ve been better is if there’d been a scene where Fabian puts makeup on Ryan
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
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“It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath -- as terrible as you like -- but a mask.”
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“More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.”
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Kristina You've gone nuts! I have a few of these books you just added, if you ever want to borrow. (Brief History, Glass Books, Book Thief, Lake of Dead Languages... I also have some Egypt book by Zahi Hawass, but not the one you listed.)


Michelle Okay seriously. Take a break from reading and watch TV for once! I can't keep up with you!


Kristina Hey, this is fun! Thanks for giving me another way to spend too much time online. :)


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Tia Finally...I join. ;) *waves*


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