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Caleigh’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Caleigh’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Caleigh O'Shea
Goodreads Author
Born
The United States
Website
Twitter
Member Since
June 2014
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Unplayable Lie (Josh Griffin Mystery Series, #1)
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2017
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3 editions
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Lazy? Or What?
For even worse than laziness of body is laziness of the mind and heart. ~May Sinclair, British novelist, poet, and critic
A few days ago, I went to WalMart to pick up some things I needed, and I came out so disgusted and angry I was ready to throttle somebody.
Anybody.
Here’s what happened — and I’ll be interested in hearing if you (as intelligent, well-meaning readers) feel the same way, or if I
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| I was looking for Frazier's Cold Mountain, but when I didn't find it, I happened upon Varina, a novel about the wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the American Civil War, and its aftermath. Varina didn't believe in slavery, and she trod a ...more | |
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| Funny in parts, sad in parts -- interesting and beautifully written all the way through! Flagg is a wonderful spinner of tales, and she keeps you turning pages until, when you reach The End, you're sorry to see the adventure is over. ...more | |
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| Boy, am I glad to be finished with this thing -- talk about a downer! I've never read Anne Tyler before, and yet the blurbs for this book were excellent. So were the awards it apparently captured. Still, every sentence was an effort, like somebody wa ...more | |
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| Stunningly crafted characters in a tale of "you can't go home" but "you can't leave home" either. It's one of those books where, when you come to The End, you wish there were a hundred more pages, just so you can live in that world a bit longer. Emot ...more | |
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
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“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
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“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
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[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
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“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
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“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide."
[Writer's Digest, September 1961]”
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[Writer's Digest, September 1961]”
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