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Francesca’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Francesca’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Francesca Forrest
Goodreads Author
Member Since
April 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/asakiyume
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Pen Pal
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2013
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4 editions
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The Inconvenient God
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2018
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3 editions
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Lagoonfire (Tales of the Polity Book 2)
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2021
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2 editions
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The Gown of Harmonies
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On the Highway: A Short Story
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Duplication
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Cinderella Jump Rope Rhymes
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2012
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Tilia Songbird
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2012
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The Bee Wife
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the yew's embrace
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Eritrea, Amazonia
Things have been stressful around here--there was a health scare for a family member, but they're quite fine now, happy to say.
But there are a number of nice things, too. Last week I took R to a doctor's appointment, and afterward, we had a meal together, including some siwa (also romanized suwa), a Eritrean homemade fermented drink. I think I've posted about it before, but I can't find the post, Read more of this blog post »
But there are a number of nice things, too. Last week I took R to a doctor's appointment, and afterward, we had a meal together, including some siwa (also romanized suwa), a Eritrean homemade fermented drink. I think I've posted about it before, but I can't find the post, Read more of this blog post »
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| I savored this book all the way through. It's a story you settle into because you want to spend time with the characters. You want to learn how they see the world; you want to hear their observations about life, people, magick. The story happenings a ...more | |
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Gwen wrote: "I loved "Hatchet" for similar reasons."
I should try it! (The friend who recommended The Cookcamp liked Hatchet too) ...more " |
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| I read this carefully (i.e., word-for-word) for about half the book, then skimmed the rest. The ideas and presentation were fabulous, and the way the author made it happen, the language, was fabulous too. The problem was clearly that the book and I w ...more | |
"I loved this! Sort of Buffy-esque, very funny and very creepy in charmingly complementary ways, with a nice little mystery and a nice little romance. And a nice little journey of self-discovery too!
And I have to give the author credit bc I googled “" Read more of this review » |
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Francesca Forrest
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Debbie Gascoyne's review
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The Countryside: Ten Rural Walks through Britain and its Hidden History of Empire:
"This was very interesting, and I learned a lot. I confess the "here's a walk that illustrates some kind of history" wore out its welcome after a while, and sometimes I found the transition awkward between the description of the walk and the historica"
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| Really beautiful. The boy's memories are so vividly conveyed and the details are so particular and sensory, and on top of that, the emotional component, lightly but powerfully laid in there. So glad I read this. The part at the back, Gary Paulsen's p ...more | |
"It's a farce from the gitgo. If you haven't picked that up by the end of the first page, and adjusted your expectations, you won't get the maximum fun out of this tongue-firmly-in-cheek extra super gay spy romp.
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“Em and her people have hurricane hearts. And me? I must cultivate a heart of ruby fire from now on. The power of ruby fire is different from hurricane power. Everyone can see a hurricane coming, and so they shake with fear. The ruby fire no one can see coming until it arrives—and so they shake with fear.”
― Pen Pal
― Pen Pal
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“Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways. Homo narrans, juridicus, ludens, diaspora: we are storytelling, legal, game-playing, scattered people, too. True but incomplete. That old phrase has the secret. We are all, have always been, will always be, Homo vorago aperientis: person before whom opens a vast & awesome hole.”
― Railsea
― Railsea
“There was a time when wen we did not form all our words as we do now, in writing on a page. There was a time when the word "&" was written with several distinct & separate letters. It seems madness now. But there it is, & there is nothing we can do about it.
Humanity learned to ride the rails, & that motion made us what we are, a ferromaritime people. The lines of the railsea go everywhere but from one place straight to another. It is always switchback, junction, coils around & over our own train-trails.
What word better could there be to symbolize the railsea that connects & separates all lands, than “&” itself? Where else does the railsea take us, but to one place & that one & that one & that one, & so on? & what better embodies, in the sweep of the pen, the recurved motion of trains, than “&”?
An efficient route from where we start to where we end would make the word the tiniest line. But it takes a veering route, up & backwards, overshooting & correcting, back down again south & west, crossing its own earlier path, changing direction, another overlap, to stop, finally, a few hairs’ width from where we began.
& tacks & yaws, switches on its way to where it’s going, as we all must do.”
― Railsea
Humanity learned to ride the rails, & that motion made us what we are, a ferromaritime people. The lines of the railsea go everywhere but from one place straight to another. It is always switchback, junction, coils around & over our own train-trails.
What word better could there be to symbolize the railsea that connects & separates all lands, than “&” itself? Where else does the railsea take us, but to one place & that one & that one & that one, & so on? & what better embodies, in the sweep of the pen, the recurved motion of trains, than “&”?
An efficient route from where we start to where we end would make the word the tiniest line. But it takes a veering route, up & backwards, overshooting & correcting, back down again south & west, crossing its own earlier path, changing direction, another overlap, to stop, finally, a few hairs’ width from where we began.
& tacks & yaws, switches on its way to where it’s going, as we all must do.”
― Railsea
“A poor old Widow in her weeds
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, and not too deep,
And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip.
Up shone May, like gold, and soon
Green as an arbour grew leafy June.
And now all summer she sits and sews
Where willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,
Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,
Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;
Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;
Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;
Like Oberon's meadows her garden is
Drowsy from dawn to dusk with bees.
Weeps she never, but sometimes sighs,
And peeps at her garden with bright brown eyes;
And all she has is all she needs --
A poor Old Widow in her weeds.”
― Peacock Pie
Sowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;
Not too shallow, and not too deep,
And down came April -- drip -- drip -- drip.
Up shone May, like gold, and soon
Green as an arbour grew leafy June.
And now all summer she sits and sews
Where willow herb, comfrey, bugloss blows,
Teasle and pansy, meadowsweet,
Campion, toadflax, and rough hawksbit;
Brown bee orchis, and Peals of Bells;
Clover, burnet, and thyme she smells;
Like Oberon's meadows her garden is
Drowsy from dawn to dusk with bees.
Weeps she never, but sometimes sighs,
And peeps at her garden with bright brown eyes;
And all she has is all she needs --
A poor Old Widow in her weeds.”
― Peacock Pie
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”
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“I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.
I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Name you Proginoskes.
I fill you with Naming.
Be!
Be, butterfly and behemoth,
be galaxy and grasshopper,
star and sparrow,
you matter,
you are,
be!
Be caterpillar and comet,
Be porcupine and planet,
sea sand and solar system,
sing with us,
dance with us,
rejoice with us,
for the glory of creation,
seagulls and seraphim
angle worms and angel host,
chrysanthemum and cherubim.
(O cherubim.)
Be!
Sing for the glory
of the living and the loving
the flaming of creation
sing with us
dance with us
be with us.
Be!"
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door”
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I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Name you Proginoskes.
I fill you with Naming.
Be!
Be, butterfly and behemoth,
be galaxy and grasshopper,
star and sparrow,
you matter,
you are,
be!
Be caterpillar and comet,
Be porcupine and planet,
sea sand and solar system,
sing with us,
dance with us,
rejoice with us,
for the glory of creation,
seagulls and seraphim
angle worms and angel host,
chrysanthemum and cherubim.
(O cherubim.)
Be!
Sing for the glory
of the living and the loving
the flaming of creation
sing with us
dance with us
be with us.
Be!"
- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door”
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C.s.e. wrote: "Hallo! Thank you for finding me! This place is a JUNGLE! I like it."Hahaha! This is a place where I don't even **try** to keep up appearances. It takes me months and months to read even one book (short stories I can read right away, but books I don't seem to build in time for, somehow), so I am very pathetic. But it's fun to read people's book reviews!
Hallo! Thank you for finding me! This place is a JUNGLE! I like it.
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