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Michele Young-Stone
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Are you STATIC or Are you Woman Seeking New Adventures?I just had another birthday, and I am so grateful! I quote Dylan Thomas far too often, but here I go again "on my own, going down the only road I've ever known..." Oops! That's White Snake! Here we go: "Do not go gentle into that good night/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light."Rage, I say. RAge and RaGe and RAGE because with old age...
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The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel
   3.46 avg rating — 581 ratings
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The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors (Literature & Fiction)
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Damaged people inhabit this debut novel: people who have been struck by lightning as well as those who have lost loved ones from death, divorce, drinking, or duplicity. Young-Stone tells parallel stories that hurdle storm after storm headlong into one another... [She] is a very fine writer who has created a host of endearing losers—young, old, literate, and simple, all full of longing. What she does best is portray the incredulousness of the unlucky. (Apr.)
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"My second novel, which I've finished, actually opens with a quote from A Farewell to Arms, which is ironic because the story is about people who are b...more
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Simple put, this was quite wonderful!
I never once felt like I was reading about 'characters.' These were definitely real people. And the way Ms. Young-Stone interweaves the voices is quite amazing. Sometimes the narrator is different from paragra... " Read more of this review » |
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Thanks for the great review. The novel comes out in paperback April 5th. Please spread the word! Thank you!!!!!! " |
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Original review posted on Layers of Thought.
Actually a 4.5 star. One of my favorite books this year - it’s a sweet, funny, and heartbreaking novel with a metaphorical link to lightening. Shellie’s Blurb: Set in the 1980s in the Midwest and the South... " Read more of this review » |
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“She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.”
― Michele Young-Stone, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel
― Michele Young-Stone, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel
“... and people who have kids, people with husbands and jobs and mortgages, don't much want to hear about other people's paintings.”
― Michele Young-Stone, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel
― Michele Young-Stone, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel
