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Sara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Sara Pascoe’s Followers (8,696)
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Sara Pascoe
Goodreads Author
Born
Philadelaphia, The United States
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Influences
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February 2014
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https://www.goodreads.com/sarapascoe
More books by Sara Pascoe…
The Art of Compromise or Dress Shopping Against my Will
I Have Two Weddings to Go To
I have two weddings to go to, so I thought I’d get myself a nice dress. Not a “that-looked-much-better-on-the internet-but it-sort-of-fits-and-my-sweat-suit-is-in-the-wash” kind of dress. But a real dress. Something I like that looks decent on, and I feel good in. OK, so realistic expectations aren’t my strength.
I hate clothes shopping any more. Those three-way mir
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"Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum by Sara Pascoe
This story follows Joey a boy of ten and he loves the wild animals and even allows them into his house. His mother does NOT like them at all. He's not got many human friends and he blames his mother for" Read more of this review » |
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"Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum by Sara Pascoe is a delightful and heartwarming story. It tells about friendship, dreams, and doing what’s right. It follows Oswald, an ambitious opossum who believes he’s meant to be famous, and Joey, a quiet ten-yea"
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“My tail is prehensile, but I certainly don’t tie it in knots.”
If you’ve ever rooted for the underdog, or in this case, the under opossum, you’ll fall instantly for Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum by Sara Pascoe. From the very first chapter, whe" Read more of this review » |
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"I did not expect a time travel story to punch me in the ribs like this. Raya is prickly and stubborn and a bit of a show off, which is to say she feels exactly like a real teenager who has had to grow up in foster care and is tired of adults making a"
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Sara Pascoe
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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask for
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Hi everyone! Thanks for this, Don. Just to let people know, all vulgarities have been removed! I hadn't realised this language was distasteful -- I'm
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Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum:
Dear old Oswald reveals his overdeveloped ego, combined with his physical nervousness and dependence on both Joey, the ten-year-old boy, and Melvin, the cat, throughout Chapters 1-3 and beyond. For instance, when the three are readying to leave the h
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Sara Pascoe
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Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
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Constantinople / Istanbul
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Yes, the front matter on ‘Istanbul, not Constantinople’ readies you for the heady contrast between the Christian country of 17th century England, wher
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“She peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads, like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the distance.”
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“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
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Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| 21st Century Lite...: 2016 Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction | 26 | 94 | Oct 20, 2016 01:53PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: 2017 Baileys Prize | 5 | 68 | Jun 08, 2017 06:07AM | |
| Gigi's Company: Book Cover Challenge | 2826 | 582 | Jul 08, 2023 03:36PM | |
| Game Night: 4 - Versed Vixens | 116 | 34 | Aug 06, 2024 05:32PM |
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Your friend Mr. Tulip would perhaps like part of your payment to be the harpsichord?" said the chair.
"It's not a --ing harpsichord, it's a --ing virginal," growled Mr. Tulip. "One --ing string to a note instead of two! So called because it was an instrument for --ing young ladies!"
"My word, was it?" said one of the chairs. "I thought it was just of sort of early piano!”
― The Truth: Stage Adaptation
"It's not a --ing harpsichord, it's a --ing virginal," growled Mr. Tulip. "One --ing string to a note instead of two! So called because it was an instrument for --ing young ladies!"
"My word, was it?" said one of the chairs. "I thought it was just of sort of early piano!”
― The Truth: Stage Adaptation
“The idea of a “free market” separate and distinct from government has functioned as a useful cover for those who do not want the market mechanism fully exposed. They have had the most influence over it and would rather keep it that way. The mythology is useful precisely because it hides their power.”
― Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
― Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“On the end of my bed. He’s short, round and bald, with a tartan loin cloth, and what looks like a spout on the top of his head,’ Bryony said. ‘You flatter me,’ came the snide male voice. ‘But it’s a valve.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
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