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Meg Richman

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Meg Richman, a native of Seattle, worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood for 15 years. She wrote the original treatment for Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride, a draft of Up at the Villa for Sydney Pollack’s company and the pilot for Aaron Spelling’s series Malibu Shores. (This last one is an object lesson in just how far Hollywood can transform a script from its original intent and vibe!) The film she wrote and directed, Under Heaven, was a jury selection at the Sundance Film Festival and a nominee for an Independent Spirit Award for Joely Richardson’s performance.

Motherhood brought her home to the Pacific Northwest where she became a teacher for thirteen years, first at an alternative high school for kids who had fallen through the cracks at a
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Freya the Deer

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This book is a kaleidoscope. After the tragedy of one twin's death at the hands of a school shooter, we see the responses of multiple members of an extended Jewish family on the occasion of the surviving twin's Bar Mitzvah. No one is coping well or w ...more
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Ok, I wrote this book, so I'm not objective.
But what I want you to get from it is a sense that our world is not merely material (though the material can certainly be amazing!) We are surrounded by love, all of us, even in pain, even in loss. And we h
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The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
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What a wild quirky ride this book is. It includes (to me) fascinating theoretical history about contentions among early Zionists, along with wonderful characterizations of Jewish characters facing the antisemitism and drive toward assimilation of the ...more
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Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
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I avoided this book for years because I thought it was going to be a Western. Well. It was a Western. And it was humane, tender, heartbreaking, beautifully written, with amazing characters, and moments that made me laugh aloud. And then two pages lat ...more
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Listened to Ann Patchett read the audio book.
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The Book of Jeremiah by Julie Zuckerman
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I don't cry a lot. This book brought tears to my eyes several times.
Such a true portrait of a man and his family. Of their flaws and ultimately the wonder of their humanity, and familial love and mutual annoyance. Such beautifully drawn characters, s
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Freya the Deer by Meg Richman
"I loved Freya the Deer. It's one of the most unusual and captivating novels I've read in a long time, the kind of book that quietly gets under your skin and stays with you long after you've turned the last page.

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