Ariel Meadow Stallings
goodreads author profile
url
http://www.goodreads.com/arielmeadow
born
May 16, 1975
gender
female
place of birth
The United States
website
genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
influences
David Sedaris, Dan Savage, David Schmader, Chuck Klosterman, Meghan Daum, Mimi Smartypants
member since
February 2007
about this author
Here’s the official third-person bio: A writer and editor for a decade, Ariel Meadow Stallings has been published in print and web publications including ReadyMade Magazine, Seattle Weekly, and Movies.com. Offbeat Bride is her first book.
Here’s me rambling about myself: I started writing for public consumption in 1997, first for a small women’s zine in San Francisco, and then for Lotus, an electronic music magazine published out of Los Angeles. I worked my way up from event reviewer to contributor to regional editor and I became Editor in Chief of Lotus in 1998. I spent almost three years documenting America’s rave scene (laugh all you want: Lotus had 30,000 readers nationwide and was an unmitigated niche success) before...more
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avg rating: 3.97
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Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides by Ariel Meadow Stallings (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.97 — 179 ratings — published 2007 |
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Your wedding is not a contest (Nonfiction)
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updated Jul 24, 2007 04:31PM
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A blog post from http://offbeatbride.com
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Stephanie's
review of Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides:
"I sat in Barnes & Noble one day in the wedding section, completely overwhelmed and sickened by the tasteless commercialization of weddings. But in my world, if you need to know something, you look for it in a book. Thank fucking...more " | |
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Amanda's
review of Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides:
"She had me in the first few sentences. "For me, the scariest part of getting engaged was feeling as if I were suddenly buying into an identity that wasn't my own. I was having a bridentity crisis. Suddenly I was supposed to care about floral arr...more " | |
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Ariel Meadow
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Gretel Twombly's
review of Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides:
"a much-needed, reassuring break from the knot and all the bridal magazines. " | |
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Ariel Meadow
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Heather's
review of Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides:
"This book, while more off-the-wall than I want to be with our wedding, still gave me lots of good ideas about how to turn some of those "traditional" aspects of the ceremony and reception around into something more unique. But, best of all...more " | |
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Ariel Meadow
gave Enchanters' End Game (The Belgariad, #5) by David Eddings |
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Ariel Meadow
gave The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves (Hardcover) by M.T. Anderson |
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read in January, 2009
Ariel Meadow said:
"A huge fan of the first book, I found myself disappointed by the second volume. The first book was full of rich character exploration, but "Kingdom on the Waves" got bogged down in the tedium of historical description. I read to the end hop...more
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| September 30, 2008 | ||
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Ariel Meadow
gave Queen of Sorcery (The Belgariad, #2) by David Eddings |
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read in September, 2008
Ariel Meadow said:
"This second book in the Belgariad lags a bit...it's a lot of "and then they went here! ... and then they went there! ... and then they went down here!" But I still lapped it up like hot soup on a cold night. Goes down easy!
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| September 02, 2008 | ||
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Ariel Meadow
gave Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, #1) by David Eddings |
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read in September, 2008
Ariel Meadow said:
"I read these books in middle school back in the late '80s, and decided to see if they've held up to the test of time. The Prologue had be rolling my eyes at the fantasy stereotypes and cheezeball language. "How did I ever get through this?"...more
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| August 18, 2008 | ||
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Ariel Meadow
gave My Sister's Keeper (Paperback) by Jodi Picoult |
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read in August, 2008
Ariel Meadow said:
"Wow. Loved this book. Here I was thinking it was just about morals and ethics and court and a family and then BAM! No spoilers here just ... wow. The end of this book hits you like a ton of bricks.
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