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Theresa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Theresa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Theresa Smith
Goodreads Author
Born
in Australia
Genre
Influences
Music, Social Issues, Media, History, Literature
Member Since
November 2013
Book Review: By Her Hand by Marion Taffe
About the Book:
Peak District, Mercia, AD 910: a young girl, Freda works hard to avoid her father’s temper, while longing for his approval. She loves foraging in the woods and hearthside stories of heroes. Secretly she thinks in poetry and dreams of one day being able to write; her quills are grass stalks and sticks, her parchment the sky, the earth, her skin. But Freda’s world is at war, and when
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Lemongrass Bay
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Somebody I Used to Know (Somebody I Used to Know, #1)
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2013
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In The Arms of Sleep
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2014
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Yellow Light (Somebody That I Used to Know, #2)
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2015
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Selling the Drama
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2015
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3 editions
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Theresa’s Recent Updates
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Rowan MacDonald's review
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Murder in the Pacific: Waterfall Village:
"Waterfall Village is the fourth instalment of this enjoyable series set in Vanuatu. It was great to be reunited with Sergeant George Long and Constable Jayline Oli – they feel like my friends after four books! This one sees them sent to Pentecost Isl"
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"I would have LOVED The Favourites at 15, all the angst and miscommunication..all the quest vibes and Olympic Gold..it’s also not fair I was comparing Katarina Shaw to Carrie Sotto..at 15 I would have wondered if they were friends! The ice dancing was"
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Deliciously gothic historical fiction. Set in an unnamed colonial city in 1920, this is a story of obsession born out of loss, of grief stripped down to longing, of slavery and patronising empathy. The writing slips over you like silk as the creeping ...more |
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| What a ride this novel was! From the beginning I was reeled in by Louise's beautiful prose and intricate character development. This story creeps up on you though and before long, I found it very hard to put down, so much so, I decided to both read a ...more | |
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“There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.”
― Somebody I Used to Know
― Somebody I Used to Know
“I loved him. In a completely platonic, best friend, would not even go there if you were the last guy on earth, sort of way.”
― Somebody I Used to Know
― Somebody I Used to Know
“I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that did not belong.”
― Somebody I Used to Know
― Somebody I Used to Know
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Aussie Readers:
February 2019 Group Read
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1 | 19 | Jan 09, 2019 06:59PM | |
| Aussie Readers: February 2019-First Thoughts-**No Spoilers**-Lemongrass Bay | 2 | 12 | Jan 30, 2019 08:24PM | |
| Aussie Readers: February 2019-Final Thoughts-**Spoilers Allowed**-Lemongrass Bay | 2 | 11 | Feb 18, 2019 12:01AM | |
| Fiction Fanatics: * February POINTS Challenge! <3 <3 | 18 | 44 | Mar 01, 2019 01:37AM | |
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Cozy Mysteries :
When You're Not Reading a Cozy . . .
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1853 | 862 | Apr 13, 2019 07:45AM | |
| WACKY READING CHA...: Feb 2019 Featured Author: Dean Koontz | 46 | 40 | Sep 26, 2019 08:09AM |
“And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.”
― On Beauty
― On Beauty
“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.”
― Outside the Dog Museum
― Outside the Dog Museum
Australian Women Writers Challenge
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AS AT JANUARY 1st 2022, THIS GROUP IS NO LONGER IN OPERATION. This group is for participants in the Australian Women Writers Challenge. Everyone who ...more
