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Michele’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michele’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Michele Sharpe’s Followers (19)
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Michele Sharpe
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Charlotte Bronte, Annie Proulx, Hilary Mantel, Mary Karr, Dostoevsky,
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Member Since
February 2008
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Walk Away: a memoir
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Back East
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2013
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Virus Conversations
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2014
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The Glass Transition
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2010
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The Powow River Anthology
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The Fascist Imagination
About 40 years ago, a friend gave me Klaus Theweleit’s book Male Fantasies, the first in his series about the fascist imagination, specifically how it was expressed in letters and journals of the post-WW I Friekorpsmen, who were the forerunners of the Nazi SS. It was a seminal (pun intended) book for my evolving political thinking.
Like many people, I’m aghast at our American government’s viole
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"Have you ever wanted to live inside a book? Same. If you’re a fellow bookworm, you know the itch—to step through a portal an author built and wander a world where the prose does the set design, the lighting, the score, even the CGI. Kate Quinn’s late"
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"Wow! This is another one of my fastest reads. I was able to devour this book in one sitting, completely drawn into the mystery of a seventeen-year-old girl who wakes up in a ditch, covered in blood, with a crushed nose and a lump on her head, in the "
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What We Can Know
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"Without a doubt, The Failures is one of the more ambitious and unique sci-fi/fantasy debuts I’ve read in quite a while. It’s also incredibly difficult to describe and pretty weird. Imagine if Christopher Ruocchio, Gene Wolfe, Joe Abercrombie, China M"
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"I liked this novel’s nods to folklore and horror. My favorite character was Lena and I wished for more depth for her as the story progressed. "
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“Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else.”
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“There were worse things than being a motherless child. Without a past, Aster was boundless. She could metamorphose. She could be a shiny, magnificent version of herself.”
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
― An Unkindness of Ghosts
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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Memoir Authors
— 1292 members
— last activity Jan 31, 2026 06:14AM
A group for those who have written or are busy writing a memoir - let's share experiences. ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
— 13222 members
— last activity Feb 23, 2026 10:44PM
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Apocalypse Whenever
— 13907 members
— last activity 1 hour, 58 min ago
The most active group for apocalyptic and dystopian stories! Join a monthly book discussion, get recommendations, or just tell us if you like canned p ...more
