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Paula Bomer

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in Madison, WI, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Parenting & Families

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Leo Tolstoy, Mary Gaitskill, Philip Roth, Alicia Erian ...more

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I'm the author of the novel, Nine Months (Soho Press), Baby and Other Stories (Word Riot Press) and the forthcoming collection, Inside Madeleine (Soho Press). I also am the publisher and editor at Sententia Books. I grew up in South Bend, Indiana and have lived in Brooklyn, New York for over 20 years. ...more

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	Inside Madeleine 3.50 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 2013 — 8 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
	Nine Months 3.23 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Baby and Other Stories 3.87 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 2010 — 8 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
	Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life 4.40 avg rating — 15 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
	An Important Day in the Joyful Life of Marjorie Wallace it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	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 Literary Review: Women's Studies by Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author), Brenda Shaughnessy, Priscilla Becker it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Tante Eva it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
	Sententia 5: Longer Short Stories by Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author), Adam Robinson (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children: Bookmarked 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2016 — 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 Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Benedict (Goodreads Author), Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2015	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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Paula Bomer wrote a new blog post A new essay on TALKSPACE I'm so happy to be contributing again to Talkspace. Here is the link to my new essay about growing up with my mentally ill father.
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Paula Bomer is now following Thelma Adams Author of The Last Woman Standing
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Paula Bomer and 38 other people liked xTx xTx's review of The Girl on the Train: "sort of like the british 'gone girl' but not as good. not bad, though. i like how she was drunk all the time."
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Paula Bomer made a comment on My Father's Suicide and "The Days of Abandonment" " thanks Ellen. I'm a huge Tolstoy fan, too. ...more "
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Paula Bomer made a comment on Sheldon Compton’s review of American Salvage " Love this book. "
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Paula Bomer rated a book it was amazing Aquarium by Ryan W. Bradley (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
Great poems. Nuff said.
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Paula Bomer rated a book it was amazing Playdate by Thelma Adams (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
This book was so much FUN and also gritty and real. Great read. Funny, contemplating real issues- really well paced.
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“I was thinking how hard it is to be ugly, how hard it is to be an outsider, how it turns people cruel and bitter and mean. Richard is sort of super ugly, but even if you’re just not what everyone else is, it makes you act in ways that you wouldn’t if you were like everyone else.”
― Paula Bomer, Inside Madeleine

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“This was before I knew that we all live on this planet, driving in the cars of our own little minds, our own self-contained worlds. Yes, this was before I knew that, when I thought that I mattered, when I thought that people saw me, deep into me, saw all my love and excitement at being alive, saw the very glistening, running-overness of my aliveness. But we only matter when we do something awful. Then, someone sees us and only then.”
― Paula Bomer, Inside Madeleine

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“Although we usually fail to think of it in this way, the world around us today is just one of countless possible worlds. The millions of species of plants, animals, and insects we see around us are the expression of myriad interacting processes, including chance -- perhaps especially chance. At any point in its prehistory, a species might just easily have taken a different direction, given a slightly altered confluence of events, thus leaving today’s world a slightly different place.”
― Paula Bomer, Inside Madeleine

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