Michele Cacano

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Michele is Currently Reading

Michele Cacano is currently reading

Lucky Day

by Chuck Tingle (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: horror, novel, currently-reading

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Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s

by Valeria Belletti

bookshelves: 1920s-related, history-non-fic, memoir, currently-reading

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A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

by Virginia Woolf

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Turning from the window, her gaze wandered contemptuously over the dull attire of the women workers. Drab colors, mostly navy blue, black, brown, unrelieved, save for a scrap of white or tan about the hands and necks. Fragments of a speech ...more

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Michele’s Quotes

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

5985 likes

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: writing

1220 likes

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain

1681 likes

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

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Michele’s Groups

Apocalypse Whenever — 13863 members — last activity 26 minutes 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

Literary Darkness — 4722 members — last activity 5 hours, 30 min ago
This group is dedicated to an appreciation of important works of literature, both classic and contemporary... that happen to fall into the category of ...more

Our Shared Shelf — 223225 members — last activity 6 hours, 45 min ago
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more

Ask S.E. Hinton - Monday, June 17th! — 1024 members — last activity Mar 09, 2017 04:45PM
Join us on Monday, June 17th for a special discussion with author S.E. Hinton! S.E. Hinton will be discussing her books Tex, Rumble Fish, Som ...more