Chelsea Bieker
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Godshot
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2020
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Heartbroke
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"I wasn’t expecting much when I requested this one, but turns out it was right up my alley. I’m not much of an Austen fan and not that familiar with Emma. To be honest, now that I’m reminded what it’s about, probably my one quibble with the book was t"
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This book has it all! I found this to be an utterly addictive read that was clever, surprising, and smart. These characters are rendered in a way that defies cliche and gets at the heart of human relationships. I can't wait to re-read this this summe ...more | |
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"HEARTBROKE is hands down the best short story collection I've ever read. Dark, propulsive, emotionally complex and true, this book is a masterpiece. "
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“But that was the way with boys. Always getting things that made them better -- pants with pockets, tools for building -- while girls received adornments, things to make us appear better to others.”
― Godshot
― Godshot
“I decided then to tell Artichoke to be ugly. To make herself as ugly as possible and not worry too much about beauty or what anyone thought of her. To be unpainted, to live in the breeze and stand under waterfalls and not be worried over the height of mountains, of quiet trails deep in the woods. To not be scared of roads slick with rain, of valleys dry in drought. I'd tell her 'no fear' and she'd know it was the deepest truth and she would be everything I was not. She would be wild and free. And I wouldn't worry because I knew the secret. That through all of her ugliness, all her hiking and running and jumping and falling and getting back up and saying no and saying what she wanted, her scraped hands, her freckled skin, her smart brain, she would of course be beautiful.”
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― Godshot
“Anyhow, most people never looked at anyone else with any clarity, one eye forever turned toward themselves.”
― Godshot
― Godshot
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“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life

Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
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