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Michelle’s 2024 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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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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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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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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Michelle’s Recent Updates
"I think this is a valuable book for an aspiring author to read. This was initially a tough book to review, because I have to think about what I wanted the book to achieve vs. what it is realistic for me to want it to achieve. When I sat back in my ch"
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"Originally posted on my blog Nonstop Reader.
Story Skeleton: The Classics is a worthwhile compilation of story analysis and outlines for 21 classic works curated and edited by David Griffin Brown & Michelle Barker. Released 1st Feb 2025, it's 291 " Read more of this review » |
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"So after I read Immersion and Emotion (their first book) I started poking around the Darling Axe blog and came across this one. Figured I’d already learned a lot from them, so why not see how they break down actual novels? And... yeah. It was exactly"
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"I really enjoyed this book! I found it really interesting learning about how different books used different techniques of writing. This book was informative and held my attention. It is well written and made me want to keep reading another page.
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Michelle Barker
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| I really enjoyed this. I thought Strayed did a great job of exploring grief through the lens of this epic hike. I found many parts of it inspiring, especially what she said about fear being a story we tell ourselves and that power begets power. I cou ...more | |
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| Honestly, I fully expected to hate this book, but somehow the author pulls it off. It's an impressive feat, to not make an 11-year-old amateur sleuth annoying, but he does it. The plot relies on a number of coincidences, but the book is charming. ...more | |
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Thank you, Georgiana!
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Michelle Barker
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| I suspect the experience was wasted on him, but I didn't bother reading far enough to find out. All I needed to know was that he went to a meeting with his editor without having written anything—because this book reads mostly like filler. Too bad: gr ...more | |
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Michelle Barker
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| And here I come with another unpopular opinion. I had high hopes for this book, given how popular it is, but it was disappointing almost right from the beginning: meandering, cute, and an overarching feeling of "Look, old people can be useful, too." ...more | |
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| Undeniably a niche book. I feel like anyone who isn't a writer would be bored to tears by most of it. Lucky for me, I am a writer. I loved it. And maybe I'm also a bit dense, but I did not see the twist coming. I'm always interested in the issues of ...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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