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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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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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My Long List of Impossible Things
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2020
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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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BMO Marathon Race Report
The last six months have been all about running, and I haven’t written anything about it because I was starting to feel superstitious. Getting to the BMO start line was uncertain thanks to injury, and I didn’t want to write about something that I wasn’t completely sure I could do. And then, when I finally made my ‘come hell or high water’ decision, I didn’t want to jinx it.
So, let’s back up t
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| I loved the first two-thirds of this book. So much potential for a dynamite last third, but... no such luck. Whatever Flynn could have done in that last third, she didn't, opting instead to let the story drag on until I reached the point where I didn ...more | |
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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| Why did it take me so long to pick up this excellent book? Finished it and immediately turned to the beginning to read it a second time. | |
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This is a quick read, not quite as good as The War of Art but still worth it for any writer who needs a good kick in the butt (like me, most of the time). I didn't love the weird fonts, but I did love the advice, especially this: - don't waste your t ...more |
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Michelle Barker
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L. Deborah Sword's review
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Fake Query Letters by Dead Authors:
"There are a lot of guides telling wanna-be authors how to query to agents and publishers for an as-yet-unpublished manuscript. A lot of guides. But none quite like this one. It is a clever and unique approach to write bad query letters as demonstrati"
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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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