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Elizabeth Engstrom

Goodreads Author

Born

in Elmhurst, Illinois, The United States

Website

http://www.elizabethengstrom.net

Twitter

lizcratty

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

Rod Serling, Edgar Allan Poe, John Steinbeck

Member Since

March 2009

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Elizabeth (Liz) Engstrom grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois (a Chicago suburb where she lived with her father) and Kaysville, Utah (north of Salt Lake City, where she lived with her mother). After graduating from high school in Illinois, she ventured west in a serious search for acceptable weather, eventually settling in Honolulu. She attended college and worked as an advertising copywriter.

After eight years on Oahu, she moved to Maui, found a business partner and opened an advertising agency. One husband, two children and five years later, she sold the agency to her partner and had enough seed money to try her hand at full time fiction writing, her lifelong dream. With the help of her mentor, science fiction great Theodore Sturgeon, When Dar ...more

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Elizabeth Engstrom's Blog

Training to Walk the Half Marathon. Again.

Those of you who follow my blog know that my friend Sue Palmer, my husband Al Cratty, and I walked the Eugene half marathon two years ago. I had to train for it. Here’s my experience.

What happened after that is the real story. My blood pressure plummeted and stayed low for six months. I walked everywhere instead of driving or taking the bus. It’s nothing today, two years later, for me to walk

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Average rating: 3.87 · 6,027 ratings · 1,012 reviews · 65 distinct works • Similar authors

	When Darkness Loves Us 4.01 avg rating — 2,460 ratings — published 1985 — 19 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
	Black Ambrosia 3.74 avg rating — 874 ratings — published 1988 — 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
	Lizzie Borden 3.66 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 1991 — 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
	Nightmare Flower 3.96 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1992 — 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
	The Northwoods Chronicles: A Novel in Stories (Five Star Science Fiction and Fantasy Series) 3.72 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2008 — 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
	Lizard Wine 3.55 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1995 — 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
	Suspicions 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2002 — 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
	Candyland by Elizabeth Engstrom (Goodreads Author), Alan M. Clark (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Benediction Denied: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 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
	Dead on Demand : The Best of Ghost Story Weekend 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2001	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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“Because in this world there is always a monster. And often, the monster is you.”
― Elizabeth Engstrom, When Darkness Loves Us

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“What had happened to that love? Nothing, really, love was love.”
― Elizabeth Engstrom, When Darkness Loves Us

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“La civilización no me impresionó. En todas partes la mejor aportación del hombre a la creación me parecía tan lamentablemente insuficiente como las palabras que tengo para describirla.”
― Elizabeth Engstrom, Black Ambrosia

tags: civilizacion

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“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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“It sometimes seems to rub people the wrong way to say anything sympathetic about humanity, positive about our potential influence on Earth or hopeful about our future. How could you not be shocked and alarmed by our jarring, accelerating influence on this planet? We rightfully feel some deep regret, and some shame, at how we have (not) managed ourselves. However, our obligation now is to move beyond just lamenting the job we’ve done as reluctant, incompetent planet-shapers. We have to face the fact that we’ve become a planetary force, and figure out how to be a better one.”
― David Grinspoon, Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet's Future

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