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C.S.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at C.S.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
C.S. Malerich’s Followers (30)
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C.S. Malerich
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March 2007
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The Factory Witches of Lowell
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2020
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Among Animals: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction (Among Animals, #1)
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2014
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Undeniable: Writers Respond to Climate Change
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2020
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Mother's Revenge: A Dark and Bizarre Anthology of Global Proportions
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2017
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Among Animals 2: The Lives of Animals and Humans in Contemporary Short Fiction
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2016
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Fire and Locket
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Ares Magazine Issue #3
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2015
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Meat
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2014
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Apparition Lit, Issue 3: Vision (July 2018)
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C.S.’s Recent Updates
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This is the definition of literature for me: simple, ordinary moments described so artistically, they become obviously profound. This book is achingly sad. It is also the story of triumph. It is the story of an abusive relationship. It is also the sto ...more |
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Readable - not really. I think this could have used another round of editing for clarity. And an appendix of organizations and people mentioned would have helped, too. Important - yes. I don't have enough expertise to judge whether the issues of inter ...more |
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| Maybe it's me, but I had trouble following the (nonlinear) storyline here, though I continue to adore the main character and the alternate universe. ...more | |
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| Maybe it's me, but I had trouble following the (nonlinear) storyline here, though I continue to adore the main character and the alternate universe. ...more | |
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| As horror books go.... this is pretty horrific. The unsettling, supernatural parts may be the least upsetting sections, compared to the mundane racism and sexism that Cora experiences. There's also a series of gruesome murders. And the existential dr ...more | |
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A beautifully written First Contact story. When researchers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico pick up singing from an extra-terrestrial society, the governments of Earth are divided on what to do. But the Jesuit order does what it's always don ...more |
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| Parts of this book read like a white person who just learned that racism exists. Does Brooks mean well? Yeah, of course she does. But the 2019 sections are more parable about black-white relationships than believable portrayal of full-blooded people. ...more | |
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My main take-away: -ploice (and surveillance companies) already wanted body cameras before the murder of Mike Brown and activists calling for the cameras for accountability. Body cameras may occasionally reveal police brutality, but their main effect ...more |
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Amazing prose, and characters feel real. There's so much suffering and heartbreak in this novel about grinding, day-to-day poverty. But also moments of joy and tenderness that also moved me to tears. I have never read The Grapes of Wrath, and I don't ...more |
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“Flog them, hang them, drown them like rats. It won’t change the facts: we are the ones who poured our sweat and souls into your looms. We have rights to expect a little loyalty.”
― The Factory Witches of Lowell
― The Factory Witches of Lowell
“We were crushed’ said Judith; ‘for lack of resolution more than lack of numbers. A strike is nothing if a worker may pledge herself to it today and return to the factory
tomorrow. So we gather here; tonight, to unite and entwine our fate.”
― The Factory Witches of Lowell
tomorrow. So we gather here; tonight, to unite and entwine our fate.”
― The Factory Witches of Lowell
“All magic is mastery and command, isn't it? You have to have a claim to something before you can cast spells over it, even your own self.”
― The Factory Witches of Lowell
― The Factory Witches of Lowell
“Australians were very practical, Emily had found. They did things quickly and purposefully and to the absolute minimum standard required. It was refreshing and guenuine but sometimes led to situations like building a town around a hole.”
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“I'm scared, Mom." ... "It's okay, honey. It's all right. That's the big secret, don't you know? Everyone is. All the time.”
― The Shining Girls
― The Shining Girls
“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true,
only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really remember it or only remember how to tell it. Language does this to our memories, simplifies, solidifies, codifies, mummifies. An off-told story is like a photograph in a family album. Eventually it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Beta Reader Group
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A place to connect writers with beta readers. A cliche is just one of the things to look out for while writing. They can slip in unnoticed and ruin a ...more
The Big Book Club from Arlington Public Library in Arlington, VA
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— last activity Dec 06, 2021 07:16AM
Want to join a book club but don't have time? Did you just finish a book you loved, but you don't have anyone to talk with? Want to know more about th ...more