Erica Bauermeister
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Pasadena, California, The United States
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E.M. Forster, Jane Austen, Susan Vreeland, Joanne Harris Alice Hoffman
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February 2009
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The Scent Keeper
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2019
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No Two Persons
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2023
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The School of Essential Ingredients
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2009
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Joy for Beginners
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2011
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The Lost Art of Mixing
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2013
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House Lessons: Renovating a Life
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2020
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500 Great Books by Women
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1994
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Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14
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1997
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| Ever lose out on that house you thought you HAD to have? Well, maybe you just aren't as dedicated to the hunt as Margo is. Entering her late 30's, her eggs now frozen because she and her husband are stuck in an apartment, becoming desperate after bei ...more | |
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| Written from three time frames/perspectives -- now (Agnes, a forensic anthropologist), then (a young female druid from 50BCE) , and forever (the bog moss), BOG QUEEN tells the story of a body, preserved for thousands of years in moss, and the scienti ...more | |
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| Sometimes it seems like this is the year for female cannibals and clones -- although what I am really enjoying is how both topics are being used to dig deep into social issues. My Murder is about Lou, a young mother who was the victim of a serial kil ...more | |
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| Louisa Morgan is a consummate storyteller, blending vivid characters with a riveting plot and just the right amount of historically accurate details. Morgana and her handmaid Braithe are women you want to know, be, learn more about—and this retelling ...more | |
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No Two Persons:
good catch! There's actually a scene that is the same between the two books. Originally, Fisher had his own POV and backstory that had to be cut when Scent Keeper became Emmeline's story. But I loved that material, and I think part of me knew I wasn'
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| I only post about books I've loved, and this one blew my reading mind. I listened to it, narrated by the amazing XE Sands, who caught the first-person voice of Evelyn, a scientist who creates clones and is often stunningly unaware of her own emotiona ...more | |
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| This is what I would call an old-fashioned book, in the best of all possible ways. A big, multigenerational novel that spans multiple wars and followed the course of two complicated marriages. There is far more telling than showing, far more descript ...more | |
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| I would read a grocery list if Charlotte McConaghy wrote it. She is able to combine lyricism, darkness, hope, and profound insights together in a way that is transcendent. Wild Dark Shore is the third novel of hers I have read, and its last forty pag ...more | |
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| A truly great memoir speaks truths that are so universal it doesn't matter if the topic is something you haven't experienced, be that a hike on the PCT, 17 ways you almost died, or (in this case) a divorce. And if you have experienced divorce, get re ...more | |
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| Richard Powers is an extraordinary writer. He manages to pack a PhD's worth of education into novels that have emotional heft and intricate, puzzle-like structures. Reading his books is an almost physical exercise, one that hits both brain and heart. ...more | |
“Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.”
― The School of Essential Ingredients
― The School of Essential Ingredients
“Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.”
― The School of Essential Ingredients
― The School of Essential Ingredients
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