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Devon Trevarrow Flaherty

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Devon is a novelist from Durham, North Carolina. She grew up in metro-Detroit in an enormous extended family and was an artist as soon as she could hold a crayon. She put together her first book–with packing tape, cardboard and wrapping paper–in her aunt’s magical bedroom full of bookshelves and a roll-top desk. In fourth grade she won a Young Laureate for the book she wrote about the death of her closest sibling and was pushed further toward her inevitable literary future by an enthusiastic and supportive teacher who let Devon sing her science reports and limerick her way through schooling. In junior high, she lost a Farmers Bureau poetry competition to a little girl who seems like quite a neat lady, now, on Facebook. In college, she rebou

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Devon Trevarrow Flaherty I don't believe in writer's block. You just have to set a pen to paper or your fingers to a keyboard and actually write. Anything. I find that what co…moreI don't believe in writer's block. You just have to set a pen to paper or your fingers to a keyboard and actually write. Anything. I find that what comes of these more disciplined and less inspired times is often great stuff... way better than I expect, anyways.(less)
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty Writing! It's my favorite thing. I want to do it all life long, and I plan to. I guess this is just another way of saying that the best thing about be…moreWriting! It's my favorite thing. I want to do it all life long, and I plan to. I guess this is just another way of saying that the best thing about being a writer is getting to love my job. I also love it when I am able to scoop other artistic endeavors into the writing field, like illustrating, cooking, etc. I will love it, too, if writing facilitates travel, which I hope one day it will.(less)
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Book Review: The God of the Woods

I was looking forward to reading The God of the Woods by Liz Moore because everyone kept reading it and then telling me how great it was. I am not a huge crime-thriller reader, but I am going to rank this one up there with some of the crime-thriller greats that also have a distinct flavor and genre-bend: Gone Girl and Where the Crawdads Sing. This comparison also extends to the real juice

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I was looking forward to reading The God of the Woods by Liz Moore because everyone kept reading it and then telling me how great it was. I am not a huge crime-thriller reader, but I am going to rank this one up there with some of the crime-thriller ...more
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Finally, a book that needs no explanation first, and that I just liked. Really liked The Dutch House. Which was maybe a bit of a pleasant surprise after reading Tom Lake as my intro to Ann Patchett. Just goes to sho
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What is with literary fiction needing a disclaimer? Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan had to be forced on me by a book club before I would read one of her bestsellers because the publisher refuses to either p
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There are some big things to address here, which makes House of Fury by Evelio Rosero the third book in this review and the third book in this review to require an explanation prior to the review. Here is the long-w
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“You stupid cow!” He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. “You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone’s a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren’t enough to convince you of that?”
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty, The Night of One Hundred Thieves

“The question hung unfinished between them, stretched over the desert, emblazoned like a sword that pierced through his heart, through her heart, and out like a bloodied ship mast rising on sandy waves.”
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty, Benevolent

“He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.”
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty, The Night of One Hundred Thieves
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“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.”
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty, The Night of One Hundred Thieves
tags: guilt

“You stupid cow!” He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. “You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone’s a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren’t enough to convince you of that?”
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty, The Night of One Hundred Thieves

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