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Yolanda A. Reid

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Yolanda A. Reid is the author of THE HONEYEATER, a contemporary women's novel about love, heartbreak and betrayal that was a finalist for the 2014 Diva Awards. Her first novel is PORRIDGE & CUCU: MY CHILDHOOD—a YA novel about a young girl 's childhood and adolescence. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in a few literary journals and e-zines such as “Starlight Poets” (Starlight Press), "Mysteries of the Lyric World," and others. She writes frequently about books, writers, and authors. Her book review blog is Y Reid Books? at www.yreidbooks.blogspot.com. Her debut collection of poems, SONNETS TO THE JAPIM BIRD, is a love story set in the Brazilian rainforest. She lives in the US. ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 15 ratings · 7 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 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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	Sonnets to the Japim Bird really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2017 — 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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Five Memoirs For Your Summer Reading List

1. BRUTALLY HONEST by Melanie Brown--This memoir details former Spice Girl, Mel B, and her roller-coaster life. It covers her working-class childhood and adolescence in the UK; her introduction to the music industry when, as a teen, she answered the newspaper ad that led her to join the famous girl band; her years on tour; and her struggles with her obsessively controlling, abusive Svengali-like h Read more of this blog post »

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“Ghosts are not what I remember of my childhood; but somehow they
infuse memories of myself as a child, the little girl in a storybook, with
ghosts hovering around her.”
― Yolanda A. Reid, Porridge and Cucu: My Childhood

tags: childhood, ghost-stories, ghosts, grndfathers, memories, storytellers

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“THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years--women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin.”
― Yolanda A. Reid

tags: contemporary-women-s-fiction, inspiration, the-honeyeater, women-writers

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Around the World ...: Jessica - Frequent Flyer 2013	91	129	Dec 25, 2013 08:24PM
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Making Connections: 5563. - SONNETS TO THE JAPIM BIRD by Yolanda A. Reid	4	15	Oct 25, 2019 07:36AM
Around the World ...: Jessica - Circumnavigator	63	536	Dec 01, 2019 11:05PM
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“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: wisdom, women

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“We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.”
― Gary L. Francione