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Shira Glassman

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Shira Glassman is a bisexual Jewish violinist passionately inspired by German and French opera and Agatha Christie novels.

She lives in north central Florida, where the alligators are mostly harmless because they're too lazy to be bothered.

A note on my reviewing style: I read lots of books, but writing reviews is work and I only really do them to endorse books that I enjoyed enough to signal boost. That's why my reviews are mostly positive. It's not that I like every book ever :P
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Why are all my reviews 4 or 5 stars?

A note on my reviewing style: I read lots of books, but writing reviews is work and I only really do them to endorse books that I enjoyed enough to signal boost. That's why my reviews are mostly positive. It's not that I like every book ever :P
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a recommendation from someone who was spot on when he said this was my kinda book
i sat down expecting to read for ten minutes and devoured the entire thing in one day

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“Jeweled stars, pearl stars, silver coins in olive jars... glittering deep within the dark, see them flicker, see them spark...”
Shira Glassman, The Second Mango

“You have to believe in your authority if you want anyone else to," Rivka commented.”
Shira Glassman, The Second Mango

“Who is this brave woman,” he said softly between gasps, “who has pierced my heart?” Rivka smiled, at peace, and held him. She was still wearing her sword.”
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'Lots of planets have a north!”
Russell T Davies

“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
Junot Díaz

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
Toni Morrison

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

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