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Candy Gourlay
Goodreads author profile
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http://www.goodreads.com/candygourlay
born
April 19, 1962
in Davao City, Philippines
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So many banana peels, so little time.This week, I'm guest blogging on Elizabeth Stevens Omlor's Banana Peelin blog - Elizabeth's worthy mission is to name and classify every single banana peel on the road to getting published (sounds like procrastination to me, but hey).
Anyway ... the road to publication is LITTERED with banana peels. For every book published, four score and seven commissionin... read more »
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Tall Story
  4.00 avg rating — 233 ratings
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2010
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8 editions
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Hinabing Gunita (Woven Memories): Filipinos in the United Kingdom
5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 10: Tree Tops Myths And Legends: Animal Tricksters
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Oxford Reading Tree: Stages 9/10: Tree Tops Myths And Legends: Pack (6 Books, 1 Of Each Title)
by Pie Corbett, Sally Prue, Michaela Morgan 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Upcoming Events
Candy Gourlay at the IBBY World Congress
Author appearance, August 25, 2012 01:51PM — 2 people invited
Imperial College, London, GB
http://www.ibbycongress2012.org/
Author appearance, August 25, 2012 01:51PM — 2 people invited
Imperial College, London, GB
http://www.ibbycongress2012.org/
The main theme of the congress is Crossing Boundaries: Translations and Migratio...more
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Candy Gourlay said:
"Opening isn't promising - with a girl begging for a story and then an old man obliging, saying 'but no interrupting' ... groan. But the synopsis with witches and angel's wings is promising. So I will keep going.
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Candy Gourlay said:
"Sigh. I just love Sally Nicholls' writing. Don't know why. I just feel so comfortable reading her.
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Candy Gourlay said:
"I can tell from the first few chapters that this is not quite on par with Once and Then. But I'm willing to give it a chance. Will get back to it later.
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Candy's Recent Updates
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Candy Gourlay
wrote a new blog post: Banana Peel on My Mind: How to Give Success the Slip
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| "When I put up a proof of Slated on a Goodreads giveaway on March 19, I had no idea what response it would get. I was absolutely thrilled that so many people entered to win it! Thanks so much to ev..." ...read it » | |
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"I've just finished my second novel!!! Hurrah! Neil Gaiman likes quoting his friend Gene Wolfe, saying "You never learn how to write a novel, YOU ONLY...more
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"Isn't it just? I'm very excited!
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Mar 28, 2012 06:14am
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made a comment on the poll: July 2012 Group Read: Award-Winning Novels:
"Go ISHINATICS!"
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| Nervy, angry stuff. Terrific writing. I mean, like WOW writing!!!! The characters are the sorts of girls I would have avoided like the plague in school ... or who would have enjoyed toying with a geek like me. And this may be controversial but ... we...more | |
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“If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.”
― Richard Peck
― Richard Peck
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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Elen wrote: "Hello, I've made a listopia list of UKYA to go with the current hashtag/blog, anyone can add to it, so if you want to, feel free! http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/18..."Thanks Elen - will see what I can do!
Hello, I've made a listopia list of UKYA to go with the current hashtag/blog, anyone can add to it, so if you want to, feel free! http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/18...
