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Wondra Vanian

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pan pagan, geeky snowflake, mental health warrior, raging fangirl, author of things that go bump in the night, uppity feminist, & sausage mama (she/her)

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	Alternative Truths by Phyllis Irene Radford (Editor), Bob Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Adam-Troy Castro 4.26 avg rating — 121 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Strange Girls: Women in Horror Anthology by Azzurra Nox (Goodreads Author), Claire Hamilton Russell (Contributor), Emma Johnson-Rivard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.27 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Second Corona Book of Horror Stories by Lewis Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Phillip Drake, Tina Grehm (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	More Alternative Truths: Stories From The Resistance by Bob Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Irene Radford (Editor), Lou J. Berger (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.35 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Corona Book of Horror Stories by Lewis Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), S.L. Powell, Keith Trezise (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Oceans (Dark Drabbles, #9) by D. Kershaw (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Anderson (Goodreads Author), Cassandra Angler 4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	The Fourth Corona Book of Horror Stories by Lewis Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Florence Ann Marlowe (Contributor), Donna L. Greenwood (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Run, Rabbit, Run (Dark Drabbles, #14) by Wondra Vanian (Goodreads Author), Bernardo Villela (Goodreads Author), Laurence Sullivan (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Pale is the New Tan 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	A Long Time Dead 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Fire Starter (Fluorescence, #1)

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365 Days of Hoodoo: Daily Rootwork, Mojo & Conjuration

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Wondra Vanian rated a book really liked it Rewinding The ’80s: Cinema Under the Influence of Music Videos, Action Stars, and a Cold War by John Malahy (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
Started with more promise than it lived up to. Thought it was going to be a deeper delve into the social & cultural impacts but just got kinda... listy. Still enjoyable and worth a read, though.
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Interesting but a little dry.
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Wondra Vanian rated a book it was amazing Funny You Should Ask . . .: Your Questions Answered by the QI Elves by The QI Elves	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 kind of book you really want to have a print copy of - but then you'd miss the fun of Brandreth narrating it. ...more
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Wondra Vanian rated a book it was amazing Seren Gwrachod Cymru Welsh Witches. by Efa Lois	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Wondra Vanian rated a book liked it The Complete Poems of Sappho by Sappho	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

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“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: drinking, humor

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“God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

tags: clay, friends, friendship, influence

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“And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

tags: something-wicked-this-way-comes

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