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Lauren McLaughlin
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In light of the Pope’s recent decision to step down, I have been revisiting my all-consuming rage over the Church’s conspiracy of enabling and protecting child rapists within its midst. I’ve re-read a number of articles that came out in early 2010 when a new rash of particularly disgusting threads of this hellacious quilt came to light. What strikes me today, nearly three years later, is that s...
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Scored
— published 2011 — 6 editions |
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Cycler (Cycler, #1)
— published 2007 — 8 editions |
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(Re)cycler (Cycler, #2)
— published 2009 — 5 editions |
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Year's Best SF 11
by David G. Hartwell , Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) , David Langford — published 2006 — 5 editions |
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Lauren McLaughlin said:
"I read this after reading the wonderful Broken Harbor. It's clearly an earlier book and it was great fun (as it always is) to experience an author honing her craft. In some ways, this one had a bit more character subtlety and depth than Broken Harbor...more
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| Shades of John Irving make this crisp social satire crackle with absurdity. Semple does not shy away from pushing the narrative to extremes that strain credulity, but you'll not only forgive her for this, you'll thank her. She's not going for literal...more | |||||||||||
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| I am increasingly falling in love with crime fiction and this one swept me away. The author combines a thrilling commitment to taut story structuring with some gorgeous writing and keen insights. But the thing that impressed me the most about this bo...more | |||||||||||
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McLaughlin outdoes herself with this sequel to the provocative Cycler. In Cyclerwe were introduced to Jill, a teenage girl who fully tranforms into a teenage boy once a month, like it or not, with complicated consequences. Both Jill and her family...
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I fell for this book based entirely on the premise: that the main character goes through a 4-day "cycle" of being male every month the way other girls go through their period. I expected this to be a pretty gimmicky book, and it looked as if it we...
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“We can say all we want about equality, but we don't believe in it. We believe in superiority and inferiority. It's in our nature to rank ourselves into status groups.”
― Lauren McLaughlin, Scored
― Lauren McLaughlin, Scored
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