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Deb’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Deb’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Deb Spera’s Followers (972)
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Deb Spera
Goodreads Author
Born
in Louisville, Ky., The United States
Website
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Influences
Wendell Berry, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stegner, Pau
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Member Since
May 2018
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Call Your Daughter Home
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2018
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Le Chant de nos filles
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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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| I'd round this up to a 3.5. The writing is strong, and I do love a book with an unreliable narrator; however, the ending felt like a cheat. I read it in one day. It was a page turner, Michaelides clearly had a good editor, but when I shut the book, I ...more | |
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Clelia Peronneau McGowan: A Woman Alderman in Charleston
By Rebecca L. Schultz In December of 1923, a mere four years after the passage of the Nineteent ...more " |
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| After reading a steady stream of dark and provocative books, this was a palate cleanser for me, a delicious and fun read. It was like eating candy, and I love candy. But in the end, this didn't stick to my bones. The dialogue was witty and clever, wh ...more | |
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"I usually struggle with multi-POV novels. I find one or two of the narrators much more compelling, and end up rushing through the others to get back to my favorite people, thus ruining the pacing and storytelling balance.
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| Big congrats to the author for her huge success. It's amazing to sell so many books. I'm very happy for all her success and that so many people are reading her work. Unfortunately, this one wasn't for me. ...more | |
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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 December, 2020? Books published after 1980.
36 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 | 8 | 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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20 | 54 | Jul 28, 2019 08:50AM | |
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The Reading For P...:
Nominations for August 2019 Fiction Group Read Selections
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45 | 48 | Aug 03, 2019 10:43AM |
