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Suzanne  Gilbert

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Suzanne Gilbert

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I have worked as a Japanese-English interpreter, a TV field producer, and in corporate IT.

Part of my childhood was TV-free in rural Maine where I fell in love with Thomas Hardy, Guy de Maupassant, François Mauriac, and the Brontë sisters only to spend decades away reading practical non-fiction, especially concerning coding, enterprise hardware, and IT security.

Two exceptions to this sensibleness were years I binge-read reunion memoirs after being found by my birth-mother {see virtual bookshelf link}. Most recently I have been binge-reading fiction and non-fiction in the reclamation of my paternal Indigenous heritage.

After eighteen years away, I returned to that same Maine island and it is a lovely place to read.

Average rating: 4.25 · 8 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work
Tapioca Fire

4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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Søren Kierkegaard
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard

Tillie Olsen
“Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.”
Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen
“There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.”
Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle

Franco Santoro
“Life is a relentless expulsion from where we come from and an ongoing deportation to alien realms. We are in exile and our greatest dream is to return to the lost land. It is the greatest dream because no matter how long our exile is going to last, the dream will remain. It is the greatest dream because when we finally care only for this dream, then our exile will be over.”
Franco Santoro

Mike Chalek
“I used to think that being consumed by the questions of my identity and origins made me an inferior person, even as a child.”
Mike Chalek, Fraud on the Court: One Adoptee's Fight to Reclaim his Identity

25x33 Tapioca Fire — 14 members — last activity Mar 13, 2014 10:13AM
Susan Piper was adopted years ago in Thailand. A once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings her to Japan for the opening of a new museum. It also gi ...more
25x33 ANYONE INTERESTED IN BOOKS ON ADOPTION? — 50 members — last activity Nov 17, 2025 01:51AM
If you have written a book on adoption, if you were adopted or if you are thinking of adopting, why not join this group. There are so many varied expe ...more
25x33 Best books set in Thailand — 24 members — last activity Apr 04, 2016 02:45AM
Your thoughts on books based in or around the kingdom of Thailand - be they fiction or non-fiction.
102179 RJ Reads (Reproductive Justice Book Club) — 219 members — last activity Nov 28, 2015 02:43PM
Reading and discussing nonfiction and fiction books relating to reproductive justice issues. New books quarterly. A Backline joint.
94603 Sex Trafficking: Bring Justice To These People! Take A Stand With Me! — 6 members — last activity Jan 09, 2014 06:03PM
It’s a dark, deeply frightening image that many think exists only in far away, third-world countries — young girls brutalized and forced into sex slav ...more
25x33 Unruly Adoptions — 21 members — last activity Jan 11, 2014 02:47PM
Adoption. It's a beautiful thing, and it shows real love for the children. But what if the children were not the nicest? ...more
25x33 So you love Jewish fiction? — 135 members — last activity Oct 31, 2018 02:05PM
For anyone who loves Jewish fiction, if such a thing exists.
42754 Read It Forward — 294 members — last activity Aug 09, 2015 09:09AM
For members of the Read It Forward community and all fans of great fiction and narrative non-fiction. Author chats and more!
2188 Genealogy — 363 members — last activity Jan 27, 2024 02:38AM
Good reading for family historians.
77447 Virtual Writers — 2342 members — last activity Oct 07, 2025 02:30AM
Helping readers and writers connect. Virtual Writers is a popular online writers’ community committed to showcasing established and emerging writers ...more
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