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Janet Nichols Lynch

Goodreads author profile

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http://www.goodreads.com/JanetNicholsLynch

born

October 03, 1952 in Sacramento, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.janetnicholslynch.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, Nonfiction

influences

Jane Smiley, Jane Austen, Lorrie Moore, Anne Tyler

member since

January 2009

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Janet Nichols Lynch’s upcoming book is RACING CALIFORNIA, a YA novel of the Amgen Tour of California. She is the author of the novels ADDICTED TO HER, MESSED UP, CHEST PAINS, and PEACE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD.

In RACING CALIFORNIA, Evan Boroughs is shocked when his idol Tour de France winner Dash Shipley asks him to join his team for the Amgen Tour of California. He accepts the offer and wins sudden fame as the youngest rider in the event. Racing 800 grueling miles, at top speed, in bitter weather over some of the toughest terrain in California, Evan experiences spectacular triumphs and bitter disappointments. He is further challenged by an aggressive media, allegations that Dash is using performance-enhancing drugs, and pressure from his f...more Janet Nichols Lynch’s upcoming book is RACING CALIFORNIA, a YA novel of the Amgen Tour of California. She is the author of the novels ADDICTED TO HER, MESSED UP, CHEST PAINS, and PEACE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD.

In RACING CALIFORNIA, Evan Boroughs is shocked when his idol Tour de France winner Dash Shipley asks him to join his team for the Amgen Tour of California. He accepts the offer and wins sudden fame as the youngest rider in the event. Racing 800 grueling miles, at top speed, in bitter weather over some of the toughest terrain in California, Evan experiences spectacular triumphs and bitter disappointments. He is further challenged by an aggressive media, allegations that Dash is using performance-enhancing drugs, and pressure from his family and girlfriend to quit the race and return to his college-prep classes. There’s thrilling sports action in this novel about a gifted athlete who realizes that it takes more than talent to succeed in his first pro event.

Janet, born and raised in Sacramento, California, is the author of nine books. In 1984 her first published short story appeared in THE NEW YORKER, and since then her fiction has been included in SEVENTEEN, SAN JOAQUIN REVIEW, BALTIMORE REIVEW, CONFRONTATION, WRITER'S FORUM, and the anthology of California writers HIGHWAY 99: A LITERARY JOURNEY THROUGH CALIFORNIA'S GREAT CENTRAL VALLEY. For the past eleven years, Janet has read her fiction on Valley Public Radio’s (KVPR, Fresno and KVPX Bakersfield FM 89.3)VALLEY WRITERS READ, hosted by Franz Weinschenk.

Janet received a B.A. in Music from California State University, Sacramento, a Master of Music Degree in Piano from Arizona State University, and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from California State University, Fresno, where she was the 2003 Outstanding Thesis Award Nominee for the College of Arts and Humanities. She has taught music at De Anza College, Cupertino, and Skyline College, San Bruno, and music and English at College of the Sequoias, Visalia; currently she teaches English at El Diamante High school. She competes in marathons and triathlons, and once rode her bike from Phoenix, AZ to Washington, D.C. She lives in Visalia with her husband, Timothy, and their college-age children, Caitlin and Sean.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 228 ratings · 74 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Messed Up 3.91 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Addicted to Her 3.18 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Chest Pains 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Racing California 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Peace Is a Four-Letter Word 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Where Words Leave Off Music Begins 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	Casey Wooster's Pet Care Service 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993	My rating:
	My Beautiful Hippie 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Fresh Ink: Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry by Young Adult Writers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Fresh Ink: Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry by Young Adult Writers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Janet Lynch is currently reading:

The Road to Oz

by L. Frank Baum

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Janet Lynch gave to: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami	My rating:
This is a charming light-weight memoir from a deep novelist which depicts his love of running. Besides running, Murakami ruminates about writing, aging, the disciplined life, and acceptance. I enjoyed it thoroughly, however, if he truly believes cycl...more
May 28, 2012 12:10pm · see review
Janet Lynch gave to: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux	My rating:
I am an avid Theroux fan so it was so no surprise that I was thrilled by this book. In it, Theroux takes pretty much the same treck he did in his 1978 The Great Railway Bazaar, my introduction to the author thirty years ago. Theroux constantly makes...more
May 28, 2012 12:03pm · see review
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Janet Lynch is currently reading: The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum	My rating:
May 15, 2012 05:57pm
Janet Lynch made a comment on her review of Shooting Polaris: A Personal Survey in the American West "This book took me a long time to read. It’s deep, dense, and thought-provoking. I found myself often setting the book down and thinking: now how do I...more "
May 15, 2012 05:55pm · see review
Janet Lynch gave to: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz, #4) by L. Frank Baum read in May, 2012	My rating:
My least favorite thus far in the Oz series. Dorothy falls in a crack in the earth during an earthquake and encounters veggie and wooden people which is somewhat interesting. Then she and the wizard make a cursory detour to Oz where there is a not-ve...more
May 14, 2012 08:12pm · see review
Janet Lynch gave to: Ozma Of Oz (Oz, #3) by L. Frank Baum read in May, 2012	My rating:
Dorothy actually goes to Ev. I love the princess with the thirty heads and the wheelers.
May 14, 2012 08:07pm · see review
Janet Lynch gave to: Patty Hearst Her Story by Patricia Campbell Hearst read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Janet Lynch gave to: The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Janet Lynch gave to: The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2) by L. Frank Baum read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 05, 2012 07:49pm

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Quotes Janet Likes

“During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.”
― Lance Armstrong, It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

tags: go , lance-welcome-to-visalia

21 people liked it

“Standing amid the tan, excited post-Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet, what's floating in unseen about to land, is not his son Nelson and daughter-in-law Pru and their two children but something more ominous and intimately his: his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane. ”
― John Updike

2 people liked it

“excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do”
― Shaquille O'Neal

6 people liked it