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S.M.’s 2024 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 (90)
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S.M. Stevens
Goodreads Author
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in The United States
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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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The Wallace House of Pain
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2022
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4 editions
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: A Novel
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2019
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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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Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
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2014
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Shannon's Odyssey
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True Crime Memoir Update & Book Deals
Work-in-Progress Update
I’ve mentioned before that I am helping two friends write their true crime memoir. It’s an incredibly compelling story — so compelling that Michelle was asked to tell it on the PBS show “Stories from the Stage.”
Check out her 7-minute story here; it will whet your appetite for the full book, which we hope to be selling to a publisher soon. (As I write, we are making final edi
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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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S.M.’s Recent Updates
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| I learned of this book when it won Indies Today's Best Literary Book of 2024, beating out my Beautiful and Terrible Things, which was one of five finalists. :-) I love Native American lore and so the subject matter of healers influenced by Cherokee m ...more | |
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| How we are raised has a profound bearing on who we become, and the parents with the harshest, most rigid expectations produce adults who have a hard time breaking out of the mold created for them, and breaking free to find their true selves. This is ...more | |
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| How we are raised has a profound bearing on who we become, and the parents with the harshest, most rigid expectations produce adults who have a hard time breaking out of the mold created for them, and breaking free to find their true selves. This is ...more | |
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| This is a this beautifully crafted and emotionally gripping family drama, in which a mother’s long estrangement from her daughter will tug at readers’ heartstrings. Using parallel timelines, Hawthorne drops historical clues as to what might have caus ...more | |
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| “Dare” is a gripping psychological thriller that pulled me in from page one, and I stayed up far too late a few nights reading it. It’s not easy to transform a relatively mild-mannered person into a revenge-obsessed character who takes things into he ...more | |
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| When identical twins Jesse and Silas are born connected by a finger, the severing of that connection seems to foretell the cleaving of more than some flesh. It foretells the cleaving of the brothers’ personalities, philosophies and, eventually, moral ...more | |
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"Arkansas Black is a searing, beautifully wrought novel that captures the rugged heart of 1920s Arkansas. Blevins writes with stark lyricism that makes every page feel alive — the failing orchards, the bitter frost, and the quiet betrayals simmering b"
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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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