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Every writer is at least two beings: the one who lives and the one who writes. Every question and answer session at a book event is an illusion. It's the one doing the living, not the one doing the writing who is present on such occasions. How could the writer be there, since no writing is being done at that moment? Like Jekyll and Hyde ...
[from the Introduction, actually page xix]
— Nov 08, 2025 09:17AM
[from the Introduction, actually page xix]
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Alan (the Lone Librarian rides again) Teder
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Another of my stuffed animals was a giraffe, covered with strange pink wartime oilcloth. Why was his name Squirrely? Search me. During a motorboat trip, Squirrely went overboard ... But the next spring, there was Squirrely, floating in the lake and not much the worse for his ordeal.
Narratives could change. Disasters could be reversed. Redemption was possible. The dead could live again. Miracles could happen.
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Narratives could change. Disasters could be reversed. Redemption was possible. The dead could live again. Miracles could happen.
Alan (the Lone Librarian rides again) Teder
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You were such a sensitive child!
- My Mother
But I'm quite flinty now.
- Me
Yes. You are.
- My Daughter
One of these days that smart mouth of yours is going to get you in trouble.
- My father, when I was a teenager
[from the epigraph, actually page ix]
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- My Mother
But I'm quite flinty now.
- Me
Yes. You are.
- My Daughter
One of these days that smart mouth of yours is going to get you in trouble.
- My father, when I was a teenager
[from the epigraph, actually page ix]
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Ooooooo, I don't typically read memoirs but may have to make an exception for this one, Enjoy!
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Valerie Book Valkyrie wrote: "Ooooooo, I don't typically read memoirs but may have to make an exception for this one, Enjoy!"I'm 60 pages in and I'd sum it up as "delightful." Full of quirky anecdotes about her writing life in the intro and then about her family while growing up.
