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Melissa M. Frye

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in Fayetteville, Arkansas, The United States

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Northwest Arkansas native Melissa M. Frye is an award-winning storyteller and poet whose work appears in Across the Margin, Agape Review, Star 82 Review, and the Mid/South Anthology from Belle Point Press. She’s a devoted student of the writing craft, and she can execute a proper hog call. Find more about Melissa at melissamfrye.com.

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	Miltonia Butterflies 3.75 avg rating — 4 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
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“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

tags: humor, wit

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“Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: insanity, love, marriage

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: books, castle, self

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message 4: by Melissa

Dec 31, 2008 07:55PM

Hi Margaret, I look forward to sharing book recommendations. :)

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message 3: by Margaret

Dec 31, 2008 12:06PM

Hi Missy, thanks for the friend add. Always glad to know more people who like things I like. *grin*

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message 2: by Melissa

Dec 29, 2008 07:04PM

Hi Michelle,

Right now, fantasy is my favorite genre. I like everything though. Biographies, romance, thrillers, mystery and teen fiction all appeal to me; it's my mood that determines what I pick up at any given time.

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message 1: by Michelle

Dec 29, 2008 06:00PM