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Laura Rae Amos

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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 ...more

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	Exactly Where They'd Fall 3.64 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2012 — 4 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
	All The Other Boys, A Short Story 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	The Fish and the Bird 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 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 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

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Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

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Nail Your Novel: Characters Who'll Keep Readers Captivated:

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“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

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“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

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“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.”
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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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