63 ratings | 8 reviews | avg rating:4.44

Marion's Bookshelves

read (64)
currently-reading (2)
to-read (1)

Marion’s Friends (48)

Charlene

1,535 books | 210 friends

The Chaotic Reader

2,024 books | 5,000 friends
Friend details

Michael LaRocca

1,278 books | 4,242 friends

Doug Bremner

43 books | 772 friends

Stuart Estell

510 books | 100 friends

Jonathan Harnisch

944 books | 106 friends

Maria

627 books | 4,009 friends

John

973 books | 5,002 friends

More friends…

Marion Stein

Goodreads author profile

born

New York City

gender

female

website

http://www.marionstein.net

genre

Literature & Fiction

member since

April 2011

About this author

edit data

Marion’s careers have included crisis clinician, teacher, tarot card reader, grant writer and temp. Her story Pogo was published in Gordon Lish’s legendery literary magazine,The Quarterly, long, long ago. More recently she was a featured storyteller on a WBAI radio broadcast. Her novel, Hungry Ghosts was shortlisted for the 2009 International 3-Day Novel Contest.

Marion will be reading from Loisaida -- A New York Story, on August 31, 2011, 7:30 PM at Bar on A (Avenue A at the SE corner of 8th street) IN Loisaida. Contrary to rumor, she will not be buying free drinks for anyone who shows up, but you are all welcome to.

(The reading is part of the Guerrilla Lit reading series find them here: http://guerrillalit.wordpress.com/)

94 posts
Marion Stein's Blog

Your Saturday Book Review — TBR

Another week that I didn’t read a book. But I pledged to write a book review every week, so what to do? I could do what I’ve been doing and pick a book I read at some point in the past, but that’s gotten old, so instead I’m going to be completely self-indulgent because it’s not like anyone I don’t know actually reads this blog, and I’ll discuss some of my to-be-read-books because not knowing an...

View more on Marion Stein's website »

0 comments

• like •

Published on May 18, 2013 10:41

View all 94 posts »

combine editions
Marion Stein's Books

Average rating: 3.66 · 98 ratings · 29 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Death Trip 3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Loisaida -- A New York Story 4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schrodinger's Telephone 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Marion is Currently Reading

Marion Stein is currently reading:

Barney's Version

by Mordecai Richler

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jun 03, 2011 09:10pm

Marion Stein is currently reading:

Netherland

by Joseph O'Neill

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jun 03, 2011 09:10pm

rss
Marion's Recent Updates

Marion Stein made a comment in the group Transgressive Fiction — Name some books. topic "Sorry, as I mentioned this months back on this thread. My novel, Loisaida, fits the transgressive category. (Probably my dystopian novella, The Death...more "
May 19, 2013 09:47am
Marion Stein wrote a new blog post: The Office — Escape from Scranton The Office — Escape from Scranton When the American version of The Office first appeared, it was condescending in a Hollywood way, written by people who may have once, briefly, work... read more »
May 19, 2013 07:12am · like
Marion Stein made a comment on La Perichole, NYC-Opera — A First for Us Idiots: "I've been reading some of the traditionalists reactions to the new settings (and sometimes singers) at the Met, and clearly there's a divide. I think...more "
May 01, 2013 07:37am
Marion Stein is now following Andrew Shaffer's reviews
Mar 16, 2013 11:59am
Marion Stein made a comment in the group ROBUST — Book and film reviews, post them here, discuss them here topic "I'm still confused. Am I supposed to post about book reviews I wrote like this one: http://www.marionstein.net/tags/the-c... ? Or can I post a link her...more "
Mar 03, 2013 12:04pm
Marion Stein rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Chrysalids by John Wyndham read in February, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Joy is rediscovering a book you read in childhood, and still loving it. I first read Rebirth (the original US title of The Chrysalids) when I was a child and probably didn’t get most of the references. I understood the future post-apocalypse part, hav...more
Mar 03, 2013 04:16am · see review
Marion Stein is now following Kerry Smyth's reviews
Mar 02, 2013 10:28pm
Marion Stein made a comment on The Chaotic Reader's recommendation of When the Bough Breaks: Rockabye Baby to Marion Stein "Thanks, Dan. My tbr list is pretty full, but I might take a look at this one. "
Mar 01, 2013 06:50pm
Marion Stein made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Multiple points of view topic "Dana wrote: "Just to recap here. We all agree that the length of chapters does not matter so long as they end with a cliffhanger; that chapters headed...more "
Feb 17, 2013 07:07am
Marion Stein voted on the list Best Transgressive Fiction
Feb 14, 2013 07:44pm · like · Marion's votes · everyone's votes · vote

More of Marion's books…

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Nothing but Readi...: Tia's 2013 Reading Challenges	2	71	Jan 11, 2013 10:50am

Quotes Marion Likes

“You can leave a place, you can leave a situation. You can quit a job, move to a different house, forget a thing that has happened, or even give up on a love. But the one thing you can never walk away from is yourself.”
― Moxie Mezcal, Concrete Underground

22 people liked it