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Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Melissa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Melissa McShane
Goodreads Author
Born
in Portland, Oregon, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
July 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/melissamcshane
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Burning Bright (The Extraordinaries, #1)
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2016
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11 editions
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Servant of the Crown (The Crown of Tremontane, #1)
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2015
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9 editions
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The Book of Secrets (The Last Oracle, #1)
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2018
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8 editions
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The Book of Peril (The Last Oracle, #2)
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The Book of Mayhem (The Last Oracle, #3)
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2019
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5 editions
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Wondering Sight (The Extraordinaries, #2)
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2017
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10 editions
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The Book of Lies (The Last Oracle, #4)
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2019
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3 editions
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Rider of the Crown (The Crown of Tremontane, #2)
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2015
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3 editions
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The Book of Betrayal (The Last Oracle, #5)
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2019
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3 editions
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The Book of Havoc (The Last Oracle, #6)
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2020
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3 editions
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My 2019 Reading Favorites
I read 79 books in 2019, which is lower than last year. Considering that I read a lot of my own books (either in editing or in preparing to write something new in a series) that number is actually more like 67. In looking at my spreadsheet where I track my reading, I see long weeks where I didn’t read anything at all. That’s the tradeoff for me as a writer–either I’m reading or I’m writing, but I’
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Melissa’s Recent Updates
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Melissa McShane
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Miquela's review
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Swallows and Amazons (Swallows and Amazons, #1):
"Kids absolutely loved this, so we have ordered the whole set (12 books total). They thoroughly enjoyed children having an adventure who were responsible, respectful, and had good relationships with one another without "conflict" for the sake of drama"
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Melissa McShane
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Carol, She's so Novel ꧁꧂ 's review
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The Old Man and the Sea:
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Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he thought. I must not deceive myself too much. This wonderful quote seems to me to be the heart of this awes" Read more of this review » |
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Melissa McShane
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Andrea's review
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The Monogram Murders (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #1):
"Since I was on a re-read of Christie and had just finished Poirot, I figured I'd try a couple of these not-Christie Poirots. They hold together as stories, and do better than most at keeping to the tone of the era, but they didn't feel particularly l"
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Melissa McShane
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Jacob Proffitt's review
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Echoes of Chaos (Eve of Destruction Book 6):
"This is sixth of an escalating power fantasy in fantasy space. Read them in order if you don't know what that means.
This book has four distinct parts and is practically four novellas in a single novel. I don't think that's a bad thing except insofar " Read more of this review » |
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| Re-read 4/19/26 to my daughter, whose dyslexia makes reading unpleasantly difficult but who loves stories. I can't afford to turn this into an audiobook, but it's fun to read aloud. This is a monster of a book, and we finished it in a six-hour-long s ...more | |
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| Re-read 4/16/26 to my daughter, whose dyslexia makes reading unpleasantly difficult but who loves stories. I can't afford to turn this into an audiobook, but it's fun to read aloud. She was especially emotionally agitated by this one, which heightene ...more | |
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Re-read 4/11/26 to my daughter, whose dyslexia makes reading unpleasantly difficult but who loves stories. I can't afford to turn this into an audiobook, but it's fun to read aloud. Read 8/22/21: This is the second book in this four-book series, and h ...more |
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Re-read 4/9/26 to my daughter, whose dyslexia makes reading unpleasantly difficult but who loves stories. I can't afford to turn this into an audiobook, but it's fun to read aloud. Read 6/29/21: This book began as a short story for a dragon-themed YA ...more |
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| Re-read 2/26/26: I re-read this because I needed something familiar, and then I read my review. I think my earlier assessment of gifting thirteen brides is overly simplistic. If these mysterious warriors were as valuable to the men of the Dales as it ...more | |
“it’s because you’re a different person, every time you re-read a book, and you learn things your earlier self wouldn’t have noticed or wouldn’t have cared about. Or sometimes it’s just because the story is an old favorite, and it’s a comforting reminder of good things.”
― Servant of the Crown
― Servant of the Crown
“It gives me pleasure to walk through a room full of books and know that one of them might be the next story I fall in love with.”
― Servant of the Crown
― Servant of the Crown
“My people believe bathing weakens you,” Gerrard said. “But my people are well known to be uncivilized.” “Your people don’t believe in drinking coffee. That’s a fair definition of uncivilized.”
― Emissary
― Emissary
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“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
― Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
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“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
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“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Sourcery
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Sourcery
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Thanks for adding me Melissa. Happy reading to you :)
