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Laura is Currently Reading

Laura is currently reading

Very Nice Funerals (Rocky Start #2)

by Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)

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Laura’s Quotes

“In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.”
― John Scalzi, Redshirts

tags: humor

30 likes

“My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous enough in my writing to make them interesting.”
― John Scalzi, Redshirts

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“Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.”
― Joe Queenan

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“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”
― John Scalzi

tags: characters, gay, glbt, literature, raising-kids, writing, ya

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“Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.”
― Joe Queenan, One for the Books

tags: books, poverty

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