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Alexander Pyles

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in The United States

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http://pylesofbooks.com/

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@PylesofBooks

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Literary

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Alexander Pyles resides in IL with his wife and children. He holds an MA in Philosophy and an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. His short story chapbook titled, "Milo (01001101 01101001 01101100 01101111)," from Radix Media, is due out fall 2019. You can find him at www.pylesofbooks.com or @Pylesofbooks. ...more

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Average rating: 4.46 · 179 ratings · 34 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Milo (01001101 01101001 01101100 01101111) 4.67 avg rating — 27 ratings	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
	Worlds (Dark Drabbles, #1) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Becky Benishek (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.62 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2019 — 5 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
	Unravel (Dark Drabbles, #5) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bob Adder (Contributor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Monsters (Dark Drabbles, #3) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), J.M. Ames (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Apocalypse (Dark Drabbles, #6) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author), David Bowmore (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Year One: 2019 (Dark Moments, #1) by Ben Thomas (Editor), D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2019 — 6 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
	Angels (Dark Drabbles, #2) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Alanah Andrews (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Beyond (Dark Drabbles, #4) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author), Chris Bannor (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Futures: A Science Fiction Series by John Dermot Woods (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vera Kurian (Goodreads Author), Ashley Shelby (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings	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
	Continuum: Fables of the Fallen (Continuum #1) by Jacob Baugher (Goodreads Author) (Author/Editor), R.C. Erickson, Kathleen Gulo (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 8 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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Update: 2020 – Relaunch?

So, I realize I’ve been silent for quite a while. Well, I mean not really if you check out my Twitter. I haven’t posted any book reviews since February and not even a single writing/reading update since then either. I wanna talk about that and what I hope to do for the future of my book blog and this site in general.

I’m going to break this down into parts, in so far as what to expect going forward

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Cathedral of the Drowned (The Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #2)

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Alexander’s Quotes

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

tags: life, philosophy, wisdom

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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: hell, love, suffering

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“People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.”
― Alexander Pyles

tags: art, beauty, love, people, persons, tweet, twitter

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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational-love, misattributed

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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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