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I was born and raised in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, walking distance from the Tennessee border. I hunted, fished, and tended the garden to help my parents provide for our family, but I loved every subject in school. I knew my way out of my small community was through academics.

I then went off to college, became a chemical engineer, and married a nuclear engineer. I lived near San Francisco for 4 years, and I hated every moment until I gave up and moved back to North Carolina and got my PhD in chemical engineering. I follow a pescatarian diet for environmental reasons but don’t enforce it on my dog, Hector.

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	Tangle & Fen: A Dark Fiction Anthology by Rachel A. Brune (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carol Gyzander (Goodreads Author), A.V. Greene 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2023 — 2 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
	Dark Divinations by Naching T. Kassa (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Hannah Hulbert, Ash Hartwell (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020 — 2 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
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	Little Fantasy by Elizabeth Suggs (Goodreads Author), H.R.R. Gorman (Goodreads Author), Alex Child it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2022 — 2 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
	Collective Amore by Elizabeth Suggs (Goodreads Author), Jonathan Reddoch, H.R.R. Gorman (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	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
	Outcast and Other Words by McKenzie Richardson (Goodreads Author), D. Avery, Olivia Brooke it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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H.R.R. Gorman rated a book it was amazing All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)	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 plot is simple. The characters are not. With nuanced characters and a host of good-guys, All Systems Red isn't like most books I've read before. I was intrigued by all the humans in the book just as much as I was with Murderbot. The mystery bui ...more
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While I found this book readable and aesthetically interesting, I did not find it exactly exciting or enjoyable. Though it had highly varying vocabulary and rich sentences, there was a repetitive structure that drew me out of the narrative. The book ...more
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H.R.R. Gorman rated a book it was amazing Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)	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
It was, like all Sanderson books, very dependably fine. It was never angering, and it was self-consistent. Honestly, you can read any old gushing review and know that there is just a lot that goes right in this book (as with the other Stormlight entr ...more
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I enjoyed the main series, The Parasol Protectorate, very much. While Prudence (and presumably the rest of The Custard Protocol) series shares a lot of qualities with its progenitor, I did not enjoy it nearly as well. The plot of the story was thin f ...more
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While I preferred Armstrong's The Lost Art of Scripture , The Bible: A Biography was very interesting. It covered many of the same topics as The Lost Art of Scripture but it delved more specifically into Judaism and Christianity. Most of what I ha ...more
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I'm a huge sucker for this series, it seems. I enjoy the tongue in cheek understatement, the Victorian era jokes, and - though Conal Maccon and Alexia Tarabotti have clear and obvious flaws - how the romance is built upon reasonable frameworks. This ...more
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