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Michelle’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michelle’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Michelle Barker
Goodreads Author
Born
in Vancouver, Canada
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Genre
Influences
Fantasy: Ursula le Guin, Stephen King, Anthony Doerr
Poetry: Mary Olive ...more
Poetry: Mary Olive ...more
Member Since
February 2013
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The House of One Thousand Eyes
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2018
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4 editions
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My Long List of Impossible Things
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2020
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3 editions
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A Year of Borrowed Men
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2015
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Immersion and Emotion: The Two Pillars of Storytelling
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2023
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2 editions
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The Beggar King
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2013
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3 editions
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Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories
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2010
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Story Skeleton: The Classics
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Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors
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Old Growth, Clear-Cut: Poems of Haida Gwaii
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2012
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BMO 2026: The Russian Roulette Edition
This was a race that should never have happened, based on the training I did. In fact, the training is the interesting part of this story, and the fact that it was such a struggle made the race even more meaningful because I learned something.
Well, a lot of things.
Rewind to January… when I decided I was going to get strong. Nothing wrong with that; in fact it’s an excellent idea for runne
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Michelle’s Recent Updates
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Michelle Barker
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| Had to read this in pieces. Very intense and well done. | |
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Michelle Barker
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| So funny and poignant and well observed. Loved it! | |
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Well, Nikki Vogel succeeded in making me neglect all the other things I was supposed to be doing to finish this book because I had to know how it ended. A page-turner from start to finish, with a great twist! |
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| Started brilliantly, petered off after a while and was probably longer than it needed to be, but I still really enjoyed Ken Smith's perspective on life. ...more | |
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| I'm a fan of the slow burn, so I loved this book. A lot of the low-star reviews felt that the multiple POVs didn't earn their keep but I would disagree. I did guess the solution to Barbara's mystery long before we found out, but that didn't bother me ...more | |
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Michelle Barker
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| Some very clever moments. I'm not a graphic novel person so this was way outside of my comfort zone and I really only came to it to help a client. But I can see the draw. Lots of room for creativity in this genre. ...more | |
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| I really enjoyed The Source, so I was looking forward to this one. I'm also a huge believer in signs. However, this felt pretty thin. After the first few chapters, I felt like she was looking for material to fill the space and trying to connect signs ...more | |
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Michelle Barker
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| Could have been 1/4 of the length and gotten the job done. | |
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| I like Michael Easter's writing a lot, and I find him to be an interesting person in general, so even though this book did tend to wander, I liked the places it took me. ...more | |
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“The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.”
― The Tombs of Atuan
― The Tombs of Atuan
“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
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