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Melanie Page

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Born

in South Bend, IN, The United States

Website

http://www.grabthelapels.com

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Genre

Fiction, Memoir, Graphic Novels

Influences

Lynda Barry, Jaimy Gordon, Jane Hamilton, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Conn ...more

Member Since

September 2008

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Average rating: 4.51 · 43 ratings · 13 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Too Much: Tales of Excess by Chuck Howe (Goodreads Author), Meg Tuite (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michael Gillan Maxwell (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirty: Dirty by Greg Bachar, Elizabeth Burns, Jennifer Calkins (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board by Nava Renek (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Barbara Baer, Cynthia Reeves (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mutilations on a Theme by Grayson Del Faro (Editor), Doug Rice (Goodreads Author) (Judge), Kylee Cook it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Life in Letters

by Zora Neale Hurston

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Jitterbug Perfume

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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

tags: books, humor, reading

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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”
― Avi Steinberg, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

tags: autobiography, reading

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“Anything processed by memory is fiction.”
― David Shields

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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message 5: by Melanie

Jul 17, 2015 04:26PM

Chance wrote: "Thank you for the friend request, Melanie. You had such thoughtful insight on GSAW! I am happy to be Goodreads pals with you!"

Thanks! I'm sure you'll hear from me a lot; I'm very active on Goodreads.

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message 4: by Chance

Jul 17, 2015 02:58PM

Thank you for the friend request, Melanie. You had such thoughtful insight on GSAW! I am happy to be Goodreads pals with you!

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message 3: by Melanie

Feb 22, 2015 04:36PM

Debbie "DJ" wrote: "Hi Melanie, Thanks for the add. I see you've written a couple of books yourself...will definitely check out!"

You're welcome, Debbie. Both books are anthologies in which one of my stories appear. I don't have my own novel or collection as of yet.

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message 2: by Debbie "DJ"

Feb 20, 2015 01:19PM