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Cathy Olliffe-Webster

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Born

in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

October 11, 1960

Website

http://muskokariver.blogspot.com

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary, Chick Lit

Influences

Stephen King, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Carolyn ...more

Member Since

January 2012

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Cathy Olliffe-Webster has been a writer her whole life, first as an award-winning reporter for community newspapers, later as a published short story writer and now as an author. She lives in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada.

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Average rating: 4.52 · 50 ratings · 19 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Green Eggs & Weezie 4.45 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Best of Friday Flash Volume Two by J.M. Strother (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rachel Blackbirdsong (Editor), Timothy Collard 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2012	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
	Friday Girls 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 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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Dear Republicans:

I realize there are plenty of decent, smart, nice Americans but, as a Canadian, I have lost all patience for the idiot in the White House and all his dipshit Republican doorknobs and brainless MAGA jock-supporters.

First they want to annex us, then they hit us with tariffs, call Canadians nasty because we retaliate and defend ourselves, and now they have the nerve to demand we do something

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Jan 15, 2013 09:50PM

Seems to me, folks should have some appropriate return greeting when they hear an admired author has become their friend (once again) around this GoodlyReading salon.

So ~ conjure in your mind if you will, a lovely carafe of sangria and Dave Brubeck jazz -- a stack of books and our repartee in between.

Glad you're out there -- uh, I mean here.
~ your colleague, Absolutely*Kate

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