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Deb’s 2022 Year in Books
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Deb Spera
Goodreads Author
Born
in Louisville, Ky., The United States
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Wendell Berry, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stegner, Pau
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May 2018
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Call Your Daughter Home
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2018
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25 editions
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LE CHANT DE NOS FILLES - 2 VOLUMES
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Gratitude
It's a daunting thing to publish a novel. I wasn't sure what to expect. I had high hopes and low expectations, I've found life works better for me this way. What I've learned is that trying any creative venture offers many gifts along the way. This book is no exception The gifts this book has given me are numerous: new friends, connection with family I'd not had before, travel, readers who are tho
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Although I liked this much better than Where the Crawdads Sing, it will be hard for me to recommend. Spera does an excellent job weaving the lives of three socially and culturally varied women together. The growth of Gertrude is plausi" Read more of this review » |
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“Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over. I don’t know why I was surprised when the children grew up, but I was. I thought, in their youth, it would last forever. Now I see that it was my youth, not theirs that was speaking. The past is now and now and now.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“No. None of us get what we deserve. We make the best of what we got.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
Polls
What shall we read in September, 2019? - Books published Post-1980
69 total votes
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Reading Glasses -...: Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera! | 2 | 45 | Jun 15, 2019 09:09AM | |
| Busy as a Bee Books: 06/11/19: Book News | 5 | 7 | Jun 17, 2019 12:10PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: June 2019 Scattergories | 70 | 53 | Jul 02, 2019 11:59AM | |
On the Southern L...:
Now accepting nominations for our September, 2019, Group Reads
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The Reading For P...:
Nominations for August 2019 Fiction Group Read Selections
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