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Maria Dahvana Headley
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I got back from Orlando, and ICFA (as in the International Convention of the Fantastic in the Arts) yesterday, and it was so great, really so totally great, that I have to post about it. This, even though I'm far behind and generally quite bad at posting any kind of conference wrap-up, or any kind of wrap-up of anything at all, as it happens. This, despite the fact that in the last three weeks,...
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The Year of Yes
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Queen of Kings
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Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices
by Elizabeth George, Kathleen Alcal, Erica Bauermeister (Goodreads Author)  3.13 avg rating — 109 ratings
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| This is the first book I'd read by Helen Oyeyemi, and I instantly had to purchase everything else. Girl has a way with words, a way with weird, and a way with witching. It kills me, full on kills me that she is writing like this and she's only, dear...more | |
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| Basically, Chris Adrian ranks in my personal pantheon of author rockstars. I love people who write this way - both beautifully, on a sentence by sentence level, and with elements of the unreal incorporated in the text. I had about ten years of readin...more | |
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| I happened upon The Bestiary a few weeks ago, and was blown away. This book is underknown. Nicholas Christopher is underknown! This should not be the case. He's an amazing writer on a cellular level - each sentence is a work of art - and on a concept...more | |
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Despite the fact that it combines two of my favorite obsessions--vampires and Ancient Rome/Egypt circa the lifetime of Cleopatra--I almost didn't read this book. I was leery that it was going to be a bodice-ripper in disguise (nothing triggers my...
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I actually finished reading this about two weeks ago but forgot to come back and update my status. In short, this book is awesome. It's a great combination of history and the supernatural, and the author really seems to have done some hardcore res...
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Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley was a book about the immortal life of Her Majesty Queen Cleopatra. The book is mostly historically accurate but involves many Egyptian and Roman gods. Many of the events were made from the authors imaginati...
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“I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes
“I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes
“The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes
― Maria Dahvana Headley, The Year of Yes
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| About Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices | 1 | 10 | Apr 18, 2011 08:45am | |
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| Nothing but Readi...: Level 3 of the Serious Readers Challenge for 2011 | 167 | 221 | Jan 01, 2012 08:27pm | |
| Around the World ...: Egypt | 3 | 58 | Feb 27, 2012 06:28am | |
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| Nothing but Readi...: Fill In the Gaps Project | 34 | 262 | May 22, 2012 11:29am | |
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