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Michele’s 2024 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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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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The Glass Transition
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2010
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The Powow River Anthology
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Virus Conversations
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2014
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Who Will Win the Booker Prize?
And why should I read outside of my comfort zone?
I’ve only read two titles on the Booker Prize short list, The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller and Audition by Katie Kitamura, so there’ no telling which book will win from my perspective. It’s the big night!
Audition was a First Editions Book Club pick at my local bookstore, The Lynx, a project spearheaded by writer Lauren Groff. The Lynx has bee
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Michele’s Recent Updates
"I finished this late last night (has been a while since I stayed up so late to finish a book) but had to seriously ponder how to write this review.
Only recently I read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time and it is clear from these two books that th" Read more of this review » |
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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
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A group for those who have written or are busy writing a memoir - let's share experiences. ...more
Literary Fiction by People of Color
— 13018 members
— last activity 7 hours, 47 min ago
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
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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
