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Clare’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Clare’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Clare O'Beara
Goodreads Author
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in Dublin, Ireland
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August 2013
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Dining Out Around the Solar System (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #1)
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2013
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Murder at Irish Mensa (Mensa Mystery Series, #1)
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2013
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Dining Out with the Ice Giants (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #2)
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2014
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Silks and Sins
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2013
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3 editions
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Show Jumping Team
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Murder at Dublin Mensa (Mensa Mystery Series #3)
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2013
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Murder at Wicklow Mensa (Mensa Mystery, #5)
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2013
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2 editions
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Murder At Scottish Mensa (Mensa Mystery series #2)
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2013
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A Pony for Quarantine (Irish Lockdown #1)
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2020
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Murder At Kildare Mensa (Mensa Mystery Series #4)
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2013
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November – Sligo and Dublin, culture and arts
We joined a local art group for five days in Sligo town in the West / Midlands of Ireland, which is known as Yeats country. 
Artists from all around the country attended. I sketched a little and enjoyed the paintings the others created. I have not painted since leaving school, so I was not jumping in to anything. A local artist judged and prizes were awarded. I walked each day and took lo
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Iceapelago 2091 by Peter Brennan contains polar bears moving south for food in a colder future world.
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Climate Change Acceleration Breaking the Scales - Part II
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A Body at the Christmas Book Fair (The Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries #9)
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| A librarian who double-jobs as a PI is attending a Christmas fair with her friends. They unfortunately, witness a performer collapse and despite the best efforts of the first aiders, he dies quickly. Some strange post-mortem effects begin to appear a ...more | |
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“You should know that.” Pietr sounded serious. “You guys find a great story like this in some different zine, it gets taken away from you and handed to me. You might get your names as researchers on the bottom. You find this story as a freelancer, what do you think happens?”
“We sell it?” Myron asked.
“You go to jail,” said Pietr.”
― Dining Out Around The Solar System
“We sell it?” Myron asked.
“You go to jail,” said Pietr.”
― Dining Out Around The Solar System
“A RIB is a rigid inflatable boat, and this has an engine at the rear which pushes the nose up and out of the water as it bounces along at a great speed. This was a good-sized one and I realised that it must have an antigrav component because it never sank in the water though the team of Neptunians got on with us. The marine engineer steering it took us out to the dive boat, a large – to our eyes – vessel over a mile offshore. We sat back and gripped the rope lacings along the sides and breathed in salt spray air, grinning foolishly at our friends and each other. The RIB engine was so noisy that we couldn’t really talk but we were relishing being right down at water level, streaking across the Thames estuary, heading for the most dangerous boat in the world.”
― Dining Out Around The Solar System
― Dining Out Around The Solar System
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“Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
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“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
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“Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
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Paddy wrote: "Clare,I've finished book three in the ballet trilogy. Letters to Follow- A Dancer's Adventure heads your direction (but doesn't get to Ireland I'm sad to say). Lynne travels to France then around ..."
Hi Paddy, and happy holiday season if you celebrate.
I'd love to read another book in your ballet series. I can take a Net Galley download, a pdf or mobi file. My list is crammed so I can't read it until the new year.
- Clare
Clare,I've finished book three in the ballet trilogy. Letters to Follow- A Dancer's Adventure heads your direction (but doesn't get to Ireland I'm sad to say). Lynne travels to France then around the continent. Hope you will be able to read it and will let me know whatyou thunk.
Paddy Eger
Hi Allynn,Thanks for getting in touch and offering me a chance to read your next book. Sounds like an interesting story!
I can take a Pdf or mobi file and I can offer a review to Fresh Fiction again.
Best luck for your book,
- Clare
Clare wrote: "Hi Allynn, Nice chatting with you.
I enjoyed reading your book so thanks for the lift to my spirits!
You may have sent a note of thanks to Fresh Fiction, and I would encourage you to do this as ..."
Dear Clare,
I'd like to take you up on your comment about wanting a chance to review the second book of my sci-fi Fantasy series - The Stone's Blade. "The Balance" is currently at the proofreader but I could send you a pdf of what she has if you have time to read before publication.
Your review of the first book, "The Blood", for Fresh Fiction made my day and I have been able to use parts of it in my marketing. This second installment of the series, "The Balance," has a a bit more of the romance along with the appearance of an unlikely future antagonist who currently hides in dark corners - observing. "The Balance" also got way more complicated when the characters decided that in order to find Ani's twin they were going to have to lie.
Let me know if you are still interested and have the time to read and review.
- Allynn
Hi Allynn, Nice chatting with you.
I enjoyed reading your book so thanks for the lift to my spirits!
You may have sent a note of thanks to Fresh Fiction, and I would encourage you to do this as the whole staff are book lovers who try really hard to get the word about great books to potential readers. When your next book is ready I'd love the chance to review again.
- Clare
Good evening Clare,It is good to count you as a friend here on Goodreads. I have been enjoying your comments in the groups we share - thoughtful, to the point, and with humor, too.
Thank you for the review of my book, THE BLOOD: THE STONE'S BLADE, #1
which was posted on Fresh Fiction's website earlier this week. It was unexpected and I was intrigued, dare I say delighted and awed, to be compared to McCaffrey, one of my all time favorite authors. I hope to live up to that comparison. I should thank you for the extra pressure and encouragement to do even better with the second book of the series, THE BALANCE.Now I get to figure out how to use your review to broaden the readership of THE BLOOD in preparation for the sequel. Please feel free to encourage your friends and acquaintances to check it out.
THANK YOU again as this review will be an asset in my marketing plan.
Hi Clare,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow Goodreads mystery author!
Lara wrote: "Clare,Thank you so much for the brilliant review of
I am thrilled. It's 'a hard ol station' as they say and I am in the early stages of marketi..."I'm delighted that you are pleased as I really enjoyed your book... as you can probably tell!
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Clare,Thank you so much for the brilliant review of
I am thrilled. It's 'a hard ol station' as they say and I am in the early stages of marketing and getting the word out. Your review will be so helpful to people. Thanks, Thanks, thanks. Lara
