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Kristen Caven

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Motown, The United States

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http://www.kristencaven.com

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Literature & Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Psychology

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January 2008

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Kristen Caven is a multidisciplinary writer whose genres and media include cartoons, comedy, essays, graphic narrative, lectures, literary criticism, lyrics, memoir, paper dolls, picture books, plays, poetry, prescriptive writing, self-help, and lists.

Her books include Perfectly Revolting: My Glamorous Cartooning Career, The Bullying Antidote: Superpower Your Kids for Life, The Souls of Her Feet (a novel cinderella), The Reason She Left, and more!

She teaches Positive Psychology and is a creative arts instigator in Oakland CA

Websites: www.kristencaven.com, www.thesoulsofherfeet.com
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	The Winning Family: Increasing Self-Esteem in Your Children and Yourself by Louise Hart (Goodreads Author), Kristen Caven (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1987 — 7 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
	11/9: The Fall of American Democracy by Casey Lawrence (Goodreads Author) (Editor), William D. Dickerson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Taylor “Dallas Rey” Custis (Contributor) 4.65 avg rating — 17 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
	The Souls of Her Feet 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 9 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
	Perfectly Revolting: My Glamorous Cartooning Career really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010	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 Vesuvian Affair by Cosima Zanardi (Narrator), Kristen Caven (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 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
	The Bullying Antidote: Superpower Your Kids for Life by Louise Hart (Goodreads Author), Kristen Caven (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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
	Inside the Mills Revolution 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1990	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 Time to Love: One Father's Extraordinary Journal of Living Longer With ALS by Joseph Wions, Julie Wions (Illustrator), Dan Wions (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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
	Sammy Sperm's Guide to Safe Sex it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	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 Reason She Left it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	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 Winning Family is back in print, with a fresh new energy and a fresh new voice: mine! I am now the narrator of my mom’s memoir/self-help book. After 35 years, it finally felt safe to put myself into a book about my family. My mother built her career around this book. It helped shape […] Read more of this blog post »

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Works

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A Promised Land

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Kristen made a comment on The Bullying Antidote: Superpower Your Kids for Life — How have you recovered from bullying? How have you strengthened your kids against it? " When I wrote this book, so many people came up to me to tell me their stories about what other humans had done—or what they did. This book is about so ...more "
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“Turning her body slightly to the left, he gently bends her knee, breaking eye contact to lick her slowly, from Venice to Trieste—then down the Croatian Coast, the length of Serenissima.”
― Kristen Caven, The Vesuvian Affair

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“Listen,” whispers Dario. “How still it is.” They stand under a darkened archway, the only sound a whispered squeak where docked gondolas rub against each other. Negative ions from the lapping water release serotonin, and the brains of these two flood with the nourishment of each other’s breath, each other’s chi.”
― Kristen Caven, The Vesuvian Affair

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“It’s a wonderful body,” he’d whispered the next morning while she was still asleep. Not even the blue silk Loretta Caponi pajamas he’d brought back for her from Florence could disguise its lumpiness. But it was so gorgeously strong. She almost never got sick. She could outswim riptides and ski double diamonds. And even when a wave scraped her into the sand or a patch of ice threw her to the ground, she rarely bruised. He loved that body for taking care of her, for sheltering the one thing he couldn’t live without.”
― Tanya Egan Gibson, How to Buy a Love of Reading

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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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