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Monica Drake
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Clown Girl
by Monica Drake (Goodreads Author), Chuck Palahniuk    350 avg rating — 1345 ratings
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2006
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5 editions
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Portland Noir
by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads Author) , Karen Karbo, Bill Cameron  331 avg rating — 154 ratings
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2009
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2 editions
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A brilliantly honest, hilarious book. Clown girl doesn't have much of a life plan, but has it all worked out -- sort of. I so much wanted a happy ending for her. But the ending is completely up to her and how she handles the lemons that are perpet...
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Thursday was my first meeting back with the Oakdale Prison book group, and this was the book we discussed. I've been interested in this book since it was first released (how to deny the attraction to the rubber chicken?) and was pleased to have th...
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This book, by a new novelist, sends the reader on a strange trip through Baloneytown, a section of an unamed city peopled by offbeat characters. The writing style is colorful, descriptive, action-based even when the protaganist is thinking about w...
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Monica Drake is a woman after my own heart. It sounds bizarre but I love clown stories. She is also the second author recommended to me by Chuck Palahniuk – and this one panned out. The book is slightly like Suicide Blonde in that it takes place i...
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| Fabulous insights into the connection between writing and visual arts, and how we perceive the world, how we translate those perceptions into written or visual work. Mostly, the first 64 pages of this slim book are really worthwhile, in terms of gene...more | |||||||||||
"This book is so fabulous, I wish I'd read it while the author was still alive so I could write to him. It's a quiet memoir of a hard-knocks childhood,...more
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“I kneeled in front of the E M T chair, in front of the mirror on the medicine cabinet, and wiped the rest of the makeup away. My skin was raw, pink and new. The ambulance had a single round light in the middle of the ceiling. The light cast long shadows under my nose, ears, eyes, and chin, and in the shadows I was young and I was a crone, in the exact same moment. That's it, I thought: life is short. The only value of wated time is knowledge. p.295”
― Monica Drake, Clown Girl
― Monica Drake, Clown Girl
“Which on am I?" I drew my left eyebrow in a high, puzzled arch.
"Which what?" Crack reached for her makeup kit. "Bottom or fool?" She pulled out a tiny mirror and put another layer of mascara on her giant fake lashes. She used a special oversized mascara brush for her oversized lashes, carried in a big tube.
"No. Trixie, Twinkie, or Bubbles?" I asked. "Who, in the show?"
She shrugged. "What ever you want, Sugar. Makes no diff to me. A name's just another kind of package. Marketing. Starts the day you're born" p.136”
― Monica Drake, Clown Girl
"Which what?" Crack reached for her makeup kit. "Bottom or fool?" She pulled out a tiny mirror and put another layer of mascara on her giant fake lashes. She used a special oversized mascara brush for her oversized lashes, carried in a big tube.
"No. Trixie, Twinkie, or Bubbles?" I asked. "Who, in the show?"
She shrugged. "What ever you want, Sugar. Makes no diff to me. A name's just another kind of package. Marketing. Starts the day you're born" p.136”
― Monica Drake, Clown Girl
