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S.M.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at S.M.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
S.M. Stevens’s Followers (91)
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S.M. Stevens
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
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Influences
Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Kristin Hannah
Member Since
May 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/smstevens
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Beautiful & Terrible Things
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: A Novel
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2019
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6 editions
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The Wallace House of Pain
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2022
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4 editions
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Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers (Bit Players, #1)
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2011
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2 editions
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Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels
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2012
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2 editions
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Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
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2014
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2 editions
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Shannon's Odyssey
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Where the Heck Have I Been?
I know you don’t sit around waiting for my next newsletter to appear in your inbox. But still, you may have noticed it’s been a minute – about two months actually – since we’ve talked. My hiatus was for 2 reasons. First, I’ve been eyeball-deep in my works-in-progress: getting advance “blurbs” for Unraveling Caro Dunn, which comes out in early 2027; getting beta reader feedback for the true crime m
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Oh, how I wish people who rate a book would take 30 seconds to also write a sentence about why they chose that rating! Especially if the rating is poor. Just imagine your teacher handing you back a paper with a low grade but refusing to tell you why
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Class Reunion: Keep Your FRIENDS Closer (Raising the Bar Book 2)
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| How do you not love a heroine who rose above a crappy childhood, built a solid career for herself, and retains the ability to love fiercely? On top of that, she’s blunt, funny, and a sucker for a corner piece of sheet cake, since it has the most fros ...more | |
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| You don’t have to have experienced menopause to appreciate Peg, Unhinged, with its laugh-out-loud scenes, groan-inducing bad choices and, ultimately, sympathetic protagonist. But if you have suffered through hot flashes and foggy brain, you’ll apprec ...more | |
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Reading Don’t Look in the Freezer is like sitting down with a friend in front of a roaring fire and trading your best, funniest, and most poignant pet stories. I consider myself the perfect reader for this book as my childhood dream was to be a veteri ...more |
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| This is one of those hardship stories that pulls you along through the sheer force of the main character's will. Grace is a unique heroine, coming to New York City via the Congo, Jamaica and England, her hair prematurely white at age 27. The mother o ...more | |
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| More Than Luck Required is a classic romance—will they get together or won’t they—but so much more. It is also a heartwarming tale of found family, and a thorough exploration of how grief can drag us down, but can be fought through so you emerge inta ...more | |
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| Rapid City Summer is a unique Young Adult offering, if you want a break from vampires and mean girls. Fifteen-year-old Natalie has moved from Chicago to South Dakota and is dealing with all the issues such a move includes, as well as getting to know ...more | |
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“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.”
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“When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.”
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“This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He was going to be naked in the shower on the other side of my bedroom wall. And I was going to be naked in the shower with him in my house.”
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.”
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“This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He was going to be naked in the shower on the other side of my bedroom wall. And I was going to be naked in the shower with him in my house.”
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
“When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.”
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“The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.”
― Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers
― Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers
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