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I grew up in Santa Cruz, California, an only child of a single mother, I spent my youth riding my bike and reading incessantly. My college days were spent at University of California at Irvine where I studied English with a writing emphasis and then I studied at UC Santa Cruz taking a degree in education. I imagined I would be a teacher like my mother, or maybe I would write for magazines. When I had my children, I loved being a stay-at-home parent. I gardened, cooked, volunteered at their schools. When my youngest entered preschool, I took a writing class and then I took another. Soon I gave up gardening and took up early rising to write at my desk. With my kids in elementary school I wrote in coffeehouses and at the library, in the parkin...more


I saw a cheerful bald woman eating fish tacos the other day. She took one look at me and said, “I think we have the same hairdresser.” I felt downtrodden, anxious.
Anxiety is imagining forward, imagining the worst. When I feel anxious I ask myself, “Where did you get that information, Natalie?” If the answer is from me, than I say, “Toss it, Smarty. It’s not helping you.” I’m afraid I don’t use... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.55 · 316 ratings · 101 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors
Shout Her Lovely Name
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
shout her lovely name
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The Woman Upstairs
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read in April, 2013
When Thurlow Dan, the isolated cult leader who dwells at the leading edge of crazy, a man idolized by thousands yet loved by no one, cries out to his followers, "Tell me something real," I leaned forward in my seat. I wanted to hear what Fiona Maazel...more
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The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
I liked this book more as I got further into it. At first I was aghast, "Really?" I thought. Did I want to continue to read about how hard it was to be kind to her husband, to hold back the sniping at her kids. I'm not suggesting that I am not someti...more
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout
The Burgess Boys
by Elizabeth Strout
read in January, 2013
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Every family has a cache of secret miseries, few as toxic and life defining as those of Jim and Bob Burgess, the eponymous characters of Elizabeth Strout’s wonderful new novel, THE BURGESS BOYS. Living beneath a shadow of loss and blame...more
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
read in March, 2013
“You wonder about me. I wonder about you.” So begins and ends A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING, Ruth Ozeki’s rich and engaging new novel. Two women on different continents have written these words, one in a diary and one in a letter. One of the writers is N...more
The Pretty Girl by Debra Spark
The Pretty Girl
by Debra Spark (Goodreads Author)
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“She named her cat Phil Donahue, hoping he'd greet her the way Donahue ran to the women in his audience, eager to hear anything they had to say about seat belts, war, or divorce.”
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