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Rachel Hartman
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Came across this nice review today at The Bookbag. I am so tickled that the book is “classy”, especially after all my filking has other people calling me “the Weird Al of YA”. But y’know what? I’m comfortable with my contradictions. I can be both.
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Seraphina
  4.21 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Amy Unbounded: Belondweg Blossoming
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2002
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A Taste of Serendib
by Mary Anne Mohanraj (Goodreads Author), Rachel Hartman (Goodreads Author)   2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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2003
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is on page 176 of 563 of Bitterblue: This is all about coming back from abuse. So was Graceling, really, but this is a different angle on it. Trying to piece together yourself by piecing together the past.
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And I heart the Alien movies super hard too. I keep watching Dark Creepy Deep-Space Bad-Assed SF (I believe t...more " |
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A Jones the cat from Alien fanfic. Like you do.
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If I had read this five or ten years ago, I would have probably liked it quite a bit more. Unfortunately, in the past ten years I have read a lot of young adult fantasy novels. And in that time, I’ve noticed certain recurring themes: 1)... " Read more of this review » |
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“Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
“He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertigi-nous moment, made me want to be better than I was.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
“He was laughing, silently, and then we were both laughing, and then something changed. It was as if I had been watching the world through oiled parchment or smoked glass, which was yanked abruptly away. Everything grew very clear and bright; the music burst forth in majesty; we stood still and the room turned around us; and there was Kiggs, right in the middle of all of it, laughing.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
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“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
― Terry Pratchett
― Terry Pratchett
“Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.”
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― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
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― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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― Cory Doctorow, For The Win
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― Cory Doctorow, For The Win
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Yuppers. When a guy goes crazy saying his small publishing company is not a small press then bitches out bloggers saying he sells more than Tolkien, Hobb and Goodkind when he actually... doesn't... He, and his pseudonyms, goes on my Llama list.
Rachel wrote: "I noticed you liking some House of the Scorpion reviews, and I was all, "Hey, why didn't he like mine?" Oh, because I didn't write one! It's been a long time since I read that book, but I think you'd love it. It basically asks the question "Is evil hereditary?" I loooooved it so much. "Well of course I would have liked your review if you had written one!! I was just moving down the line of friends' reviews - I think after seeing a comment about the book by Catie.
Thanks for writing a personal review and rec just for me! I already have the sample and your praise gets me even more interested in it. It sounds great!
Getting more and more excited about your book, Rachel!!
that is a good motto. mine is, "if it doesn't move, it's food."this is a bad motto. i should think it through before i make it official.. i was too enthusiastic. oh, dear - that stapler isn't moving....
ooh, it is this thai restaurant near my house..... soo good. i do a weekly "adventures in food and fun" thingie on here in my writing section. you can see the actual food there and continue to be jealous. i love food. and fun.
I tend not to list my current-reading, for fear I might wander off and then get yelled at. Plus, I downloaded it yesterday, and read it in a huge tear. Excellent!
Shit, Rachel, I fucking loved your book. I'm sorry I'm swearing so much on your profile. Needed to be said.
Of course we're friends! Any friend of Ista's is a friend of mine. ;)I'm looking forward to reading Seraphina too--it was already on my TBR list!
Ahahaha, thank you. When I came across it on the internet I thought "Now that's afacepalm that will prove useful."
I so thought we were friends already, I see you everywhere on here so I just assumed =)Thanks for the invite =)
WOOOHOOOOO!!!! Number 8 is officially hanging in Rupp. Need to find a way to see it ASAP. Sounds like thousands of people celebrated today. I wanted to go to Rupp but the tickets sold out too quickly.
Thanks! Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat. Bleeding blue knows no bounds (international lines or otherwise). I'm so excited it's hard to actually focus on anything this evening.
Thanks for accepting my friend request. I just finished Seraphina and I absolutely adored it. It is now one of my favorite books, and I cannot wait to reread it and others! Thank you for a beautiful and thrilling escape into Phina's world!
Thank you so much for the friend request. (I am so much in awe of you after reading Seraphina that I would have just followed you in perpetuity rather than friending you!)
Hi Rachel! I picked up Seraphina this weekend at ALA midwinter and I can't tell you how excited I am to read it!
Hey Rachel, thanks for the friendvite! I'm glad to be in touch on a more regular basis. And if you start throwing your weight around when your book comes out, I'm sewing that shadow right back onto you with the biggest needle I can find.
Thanks for accepting my friend request. I loved your book and can't wait for the next one, even if this one is not out yet! Heraklion is not my hometown, but I've been living here for five years now and I love it, even though I hate seafood, can't really eat anything from the sea...:P
Thanks for accepting my friend request. I've enjoyed your reviews for a while and I'm looking forward to reading Seraphina when I can get my hands on it. :)
Thanks for the friend request. I'm so flattered. I've seen people getting really excited for Seraphina and sometimes I get intimidated about approaching GR friends because I'm actually rather shy.I must admit I've never read any Terry Pratchett. I don't necessarily have anything against him, there's just always other books I want to read first >.< I'll keep Tiffany Aching in mind, though. I'm always on the hunt for strong heroines.
Thanks so much for the request, Rachel. I'm glad that you decided to come back to goodreads. I enjoyed reading your book so much; I think that Stephanie and I will be eagerly awaiting the sequel! Best of luck on your debut!
Rachel wrote: "Moorchild wrote: "Rachel! Are you doing Nanowrimo this year?"Y'know what, you twisted my arm (that was hard, wasn't it?). I'm already 30K words into it, but I think I can use this to track my con..."
Yay! I'll add you to my buddies when they get the system running. I'm also sort of cheating, since I've done a teensy bit of writing and a lot of outlining before I start officially.
(My 18+ charisma is irresistible. I knew you'd eventually succumb to my Nano-y pressures.)
Moorchild wrote: "Rachel! Are you doing Nanowrimo this year?"Y'know what, you twisted my arm (that was hard, wasn't it?). I'm already 30K words into it, but I think I can use this to track my continued progress and give myself a kick in the pants, which I seem to need. My handle is amyunbounded.
Kat wrote: "Saw your book on Netgalley! Good luck, Rachel! If anyone deserves to be published, successfully and kicking the literature world's ass - it's you!"Aw, thanks! I shall endeavour to kick the world's ass to the best of my ability. Er, the literature world's ass, that is. Maybe both, if I have time.
Saw your book on Netgalley! Good luck, Rachel! If anyone deserves to be published, successfully and kicking the literature world's ass - it's you!
Rachel wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Hey Rachel. I just saw a certain book on NetGalley and just had to request it! ;)"Is it on NetGalley? Cool! Sorry it doesn't have a proper cover yet!"
Yup, it was a nice surprise to see it. Hopefully they will accept me. :)
Stephanie wrote: "Hey Rachel. I just saw a certain book on NetGalley and just had to request it! ;)"Is it on NetGalley? Cool! Sorry it doesn't have a proper cover yet!
Thanks for the friend invite. Soggy diaspora - I'll have to remember that. What I miss the most are the beaches, especially when the tides are out.
Thank you for the friend request. Note to self, milk and bread doesn't work on trolls, but it does work for new GR friends.
Rachel wrote: "Moorchild wrote: "Rachel wrote: Howdy! I agree that the Pacific Northwest is a particularly apropos place for hunting undead!"I see you're from BC! I am actually very close to you, right now, in ..."
Glad to hear someone is keeping up the good fight. Your seven-year-old sounds like the best seven-year-old I have ever heard of!
Ms Carr sounds like a runner, in that case. Maybe stealthy.
My friends and I created the big zombie LARP group in Olympia last year, so I can proudly call myself a hunter of the undead.
Moorchild wrote: "Rachel wrote: Howdy! I agree that the Pacific Northwest is a particularly apropos place for hunting undead!"I see you're from BC! I am actually very close to you, right now, in Port Townsend. Hul..."
LOL. This is something we talk about CONSTANTLY at the dinner table. My seven-year-old thinks he's part of the Lesser Undead Fighters' Association of Greater Vancouver, and he tells me all these zombie-fighting adventures he has at night. Also: famous Canadian painter Emily Carr is apparently also undead, and very hard to catch. Who knew?
Rachel wrote: Howdy! I agree that the Pacific Northwest is a particularly apropos place for hunting undead!"I see you're from BC! I am actually very close to you, right now, in Port Townsend. Hullo from across the Sound! How are you guys containing the undead over there?
Moorchild wrote: "Hello, Rachel! Nice to meet you! :D"Howdy! I agree that the Pacific Northwest is a particularly apropos place for hunting undead!
Vinaya wrote: "Yay! I was going to send you a request, but you beat me to it! I tend to dither over these things... Btw, the green worm is supposed to be a book worm. I'm not sure how physiologically accurate it ..."I've never seen a real live bookworm, I have to admit. I've seen the holes they leave, which are kind of cool looking, if creepy. Anyway, thanks for accepting!
