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Harma-Mae Smit

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Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality

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Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Diana Wynne Jones

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Harma-Mae Smit is currently surviving your typical tumultuous twenty-something years, but through it all has clung to three constants in her life: God, travel and writing. Despite her strong Dutch-Canadian roots, she’s discovered a small piece of Brazil in her soul after venturing onto the South American continent. Her love of travel, though, is rivalled only by her life-long love of writing. Her fingers felt the itch even before she could spell, requiring the conscription of her mother to spell out every word of her story that had to be written. Check out her blog at HarmaMaeSmit.com

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Peck Out Her Eyes, She Deserves It!

Vindictiveness in Fiction

‘Just Desserts,’ by Paulina Smit. Creative Commons.

Some versions of Cinderella end with her ordering her bird-friends to peck out her stepsisters’ eyes. Yes, the sweet, lovely Cinderella whom we all heard about as a kid – though clearly not the Disney version. Apparently she decided to take revenge and punish her sisters by blinding them in the most gruesome way she c...

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Average rating: 2.88 · 8 ratings · 1 review · 7 distinct works · Similar authors

	Prince Charming 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Johnnie's Girl 2.5 of 5 stars 2.50 avg rating — 2 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
	Why Polly? (Chapter 1 - Meet the Princess) 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Why Polly? (Chapter 4 - Explanation of Long Noses) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 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
	Why Polly (Chapter 3 - The Magician's Peak) (Why Polly? #3) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 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
	Why Polly? (Chapter 2 - Welcome to Chaldea) (Why Polly? #2) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Spring Fever 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	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

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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

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Harma-Mae Smit wrote a new blog post Peck Out Her Eyes, She Deserves It! Vindictiveness in Fiction ‘Just Desserts,’ by Paulina Smit. Creative Commons. Some versions of Cinderella end with her ordering her bird-friends to... Read more of this blog post »
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Harma-Mae made a comment on Why Polly? (Chapter 1 - Meet the Princess) — NOTICE - ebook technical difficulties "Unfortunately, the ebook is currently not displaying properly. I am doing to my best to find the error and correct it. In the meantime, this ebook is...more "
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Harma-Mae rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer recommended to Harma-Mae by: my aunt	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
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Harma-Mae rated a book 4 of 5 stars El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo	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
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Harma-Mae is currently reading The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) by J.R.R. Tolkien	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
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Harma-Mae rated a book 4 of 5 stars Courting Cate (The Courtships of Lancaster County #1) by Leslie Gould (Goodreads Author) read in March, 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
This is "The Taming of the Shrew" re-told in an Amish setting. It actually works surprisingly well. Plot elements that would be hard to make believable in the modern day are somewhat plausible when transported to Amish culture, though there were stil...more
Mar 07, 2013 11:56am · see review
Harma-Mae rated a book 4 of 5 stars One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding by Rebecca Mead (Goodreads Author)	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
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