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Michelle Barker
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Born
in Vancouver, Canada
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Influences
Fantasy: Ursula le Guin, Stephen King, Anthony Doerr
Poetry: Mary Olive ...more
Poetry: Mary Olive ...more
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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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The Beggar King
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2013
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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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Control Freak
On Friday night I went to the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival in Stanley Park to see Bill Burr—which was awesome, and Stanley Park was such a good venue for it, but that’s not what I want to talk about.
I had one of the cheap-o tickets near the back—stand in long lines, bring your own chair—but with the sound system and the screens, it was fine. The interesting thing was that for some reason, the p
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| Wow. This was unexpected in nearly every way. Koch skillfully draws you in through the first third (half?) of the book with wonderful humour and a seemingly light story, and then...POW. Reality. The narrator has been hiding things. A lot of things. W ...more | |
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This was a reread for me, and I basically gulped it down in one day. Anyone wishing to study how voice impacts narrative just has to pick up this book. McCarthy is a master at it. Plus he writes lines like this: You've been giving up things for years ...more |
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| Felt like he referenced a lot of studies that I've seen before. Nothing new here. Didn't feel the need to continue with it. ...more | |
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| Delightful. I especially loved the character of Glimm and his interactions with Jorvun. Feel like I probably missed some of the references, but the ones I caught were very funny. Highly recommend. | |
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| Absolutely charming and heartbreaking. I did not expect to like this book. I'm not a huge fan of the form and thought it would feel artificial, but it was so well handled. I listened to the audiobook which was very well narrated (different readers fo ...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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