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Kristina Riggle
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About this author
Frank Mallett, a vicar in THE CHILDREN'S BOOK by A.S. Byatt, meets an author whose work he admires, but finds himself "annoyed that this robed person, with his electric black hair, was more the owner, so to speak, of the imagined rocks and stones and elder bushes than he, the reader." The next line made me smile ruefully. "Readers ought not to meet writers, he thought. They are meant not ...
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Real Life & Liars
   3.37 avg rating — 365 ratings
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2009
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7 editions
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The Life You've Imagined
3.41 avg rating — 239 ratings
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2010
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Things We Didn't Say: A Novel
3.40 avg rating — 204 ratings
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2011
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Keepsake: A Novel
4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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expected publication
2012
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Keepsake
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"I missed this earlier about Susan Elizabeth Phillips being so close to my stomping grounds! My neck of Michigan is just a few hours from Chicago.
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"I love Sideways and Up in the Air, but in isolation from the books (which are good in a different way). They are both so different from the source mat...more
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"Susan wrote: "I'll add a few sites to TK's recommendations for aspiring authors re. helpful advice. I think Kristen Nelson (a literary agent) has some...more
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"I like the cameos, too. Madeline L'Engle did that, as well, as I remember from my teen-age reading.
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Hey authors: What's the no. 1 question you get about your book(s)?
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"I'll tell you mine, about THINGS WE DIDN'T SAY.
"OMG, do you *know* someone like Mallory?!" (The answer: No. And whew.) " |
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“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)”
― Kristina Riggle
― Kristina Riggle
“I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could have - so she understands how it kills me now that she won't let me hug her when she's in obvious distress. (The Life You've Imagined)”
― Kristina Riggle
― Kristina Riggle
Summer Reads! One-Day-Only Discussion Group
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