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Leslye Walton

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Leslye Walton was born in the Pacific Northwest. Perhaps because of this, Leslye has developed a strange kinship with the daffodil--she too can only achieve beauty after a long, cold sulk in the rain. Her debut novel, THE STRANGE AND BEAUTIFUL SORROWS OF AVA LAVENDER, was inspired by a particularly long sulk in a particularly cold rainstorm spent pondering the logic, or rather, lack thereof, in love.

Leslye is a full-time writer living in Seattle, Washington. She spends her time eating chocolate cupcakes, and doting on her chihuahuas, Mr. Darcy and Doc Holliday. Her next novel, THE PRICE GUIDE TO THE OCCULT, is set to be published in March 2018.

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	The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 4.03 avg rating — 43,181 ratings — published 2014 — 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
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	A Tyranny of Petticoats (A Tyranny of Petticoats, #1) by Jessica Spotswood (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J. Anderson Coats (Goodreads Author), Andrea Cremer (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 4,300 ratings — published 2016 — 11 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

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The Boy Who Drew Monsters

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“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

tags: family-relationships, inspirational

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“Love makes us such fools.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

tags: love

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“Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

tags: love, perception

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2024 February Members Choice Poll...

This will remain open until Jan 13th.

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The Berry Pickers

by Amanda Peters

9 votes, 18.8%

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

by Helen Simonson

9 votes, 18.8%

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride

9 votes, 18.8%

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

by Leslye Walton

5 votes, 10.4%

The Measure

by Nikki Erlick

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The Secret Life of Sunflowers

by Marta Molnar

5 votes, 10.4%

Hang the Moon

by Jeannette Walls

4 votes, 8.3%

The Marriage Plot

by Jeffrey Eugenides

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The Museum of You

by Carys Bray

1 vote, 2.1%

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Leslye’s Quotes

“Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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“But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part of this story we have together.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

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“It’s like when we read The Diary of Anne Frank in seventh grade, and I had the sneaking suspicion that I would have been a Nazi back then because I wouldn’t have had the guts to be anything else. Because I would have been too scared to not go along with the majority. Like, I would have been a passive sort of Nazi, but I still would have been a Nazi. I never said anything out loud, of course, but I remember reading that book in Ms. Peterson’s class and everyone was all, “Oh, I would’ve helped Anne. I would have rebelled. I don’t understand how people could have allowed this to happen, blah blah blah.” I mean,”
― Jennifer Mathieu, The Truth About Alice

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