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Laura Rae Amos is a Michigan native now living near Washington DC with her charming husband and tornado of a little boy. After studying creative writing at the University of Toledo, she moved to the suburbs of Detroit to have a baby instead of an MFA. She is a blogger, web-fiction writer, poet, occasional musician, photographer, dabbling artisan, and all around creative distraction. When not writing, she loves to read, take photos, climb mountains (okay, little ones!), go on road trips, play guitar, draw, and build elaborate neighborhoods for her Sims.

Laura writes kooky and emotional relationship dramas, character-rich stories that are sweet, sassy, sometimes sad, and a little bit crass. She has nineteen books in her head and needs to lear
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Average rating: 3.72 · 98 ratings · 27 reviews · 3 distinct works
Exactly Where They'd Fall

3.67 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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All The Other Boys, A Short...

3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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The Fish and the Bird

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the best books of 2012 that I didn't get to read yet

*** cross-posted from my blog... where I have the pictures working, lol! http://lauraraeamos.com/2012/12/22/th... ***

Everybody else makes their "best of year" books list, but because my backlog of books to be read is always so long, I never get to make one of those. I'm envious of those of you who read books as soon as they come out... or even in the same year! But I'm usually reading for novel re Read more of this blog post »
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Published on December 26, 2012 12:17 • Tags: bestof2012, literary, women-s-fiction
East of Eden
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Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
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It’s difficult to give stars to this book, because it’s not an enjoyable read. You read this book like watching a train wreck. It’s shocking and uncomfortable. At the same time, it’s hard to look away. It tackles a disturbing topic and mostly achieve ...more
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"“I‘ve observed Mom long enough to know that nothing scares off a man like what a woman wants from him.”

Half His Age is vulgar. It’s bold, piercing, poignant. McCurdy has created something uncomfortably evocative. I ended up unable to sleep ‘til 3am b" Read more of this review »
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"4.25 🌟 what an incredibly sad, hard & raw book…One that I don’t think we’re necessarily supposed to enjoy, but Jennette tells the story in such a unique, shockingly honest way that I really appreciate it. The subject matter is undeniably difficult, b" Read more of this review »
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Girls They Write Songs About by Carlene Bauer
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This book took a few chapters to find its story (truly almost abandoned it), but then it finally did and I wanted to see it through to the end. The girls are both insufferably terrible humans. They bulldoze everything and everyone for the sake of the ...more
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Laura is on page 18 of 288 of Half His Age: I think reading this book might be kind of like gawking at a gruesome traffic wreck. Like: I shouldn’t, I’m certainly not enjoying it, but I’m gonna keep staring at it for a bit longer.
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“There were probably all sorts of things you never thought you'd want to do until you learned they were an option. I think you might surprise yourself.”
― Laura Rae Amos, The Fish and the Bird

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
― amy bloom
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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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