Michele Cacano

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Michele is Currently Reading

Michele Cacano is currently reading

All the Fiends of Hell

by Adam L.G. Nevill (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: horror, novel, currently-reading

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Apr 04, 2026 03:37AM

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A Poetry Handbook

by Mary Oliver

bookshelves: books-on-writing, poetry, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in March 2022

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Michele Cacano said: " Wow, I will be reading and re-reading this book many times, I am sure. 120-ish pages, I thought, seemed brief. Until I started reading. Mary Oliver has delivered in those pages an entire course in poetry education. First published in 1994, it's easy ...more "

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— Mar 05, 2022 05:00AM

Mar 29, 2022 05:02AM · see review

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

by Simone de Beauvoir

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Mar 30, 2026 04:32AM

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Michele’s Notes & Highlights

Quicksand by Nella Larsen

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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

“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: reading, writing

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“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

tags: anything-can-be, hope, impossible, inspirational, musn-t, possibilities, shouldn-t, won-t

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“Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: words, writing-advice

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