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Carol Anne Douglas is a writer of novels and plays. In her lalest novel, Choosing Yellowstone, she looks at a long-term couple who make different choices and have to live with the consequences. In her novel Sister Matthew and Sister Rose: Novices in Love, Douglas revists her Catholic girlhood. She also passionately loves the Arthurian legends and the works of Shakespeare, and has used them as the basis of her own fiction. Her Arthurian books are Lancelot Her Story and Lancelot and Guinevere, in which Lancelot is a woman in disguise. Her young adult novels, Merlin's Shakespeare and The Mercutio Problem, are about a teen-age girl's time travels to Shakespeare's world.

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	Lancelot: Her Story 3.85 avg rating — 52 ratings — 3 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
	Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability by Victoria A. Brownworth (Editor), Susan Raffo (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marj Schneider (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1999	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
	Sister Matthew and Sister Rose: Novices in Love 4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — 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
	Lancelot and Guinevere 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — 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
	Love & Politics: Radical Feminist & Lesbian Theories by Carol Anne Douglas (Goodreads Author), Joan E. Biren (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1988 — 4 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
	September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives by Susan Hawthorne (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Susan Hawthorne (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carol Anne Douglas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002 — 3 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
	Merlin's Shakespeare (Merlin's Shakespeare #1) 2.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 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
	The Mercutio Problem 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 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
	Choosing Yellowstone: A Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 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
	To the Cleveland Station 1.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1982	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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I read so many fine books in 2022 that it’s hard to limit them. As usual, these are books I read during the year, not necessarily published that year. First, I’ll cover the fiction since I suspect more readers will pick up those books.

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Carol Douglas rated a book it was amazing O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker	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
This is the story of an unappreciated, brilliant, young girl who loves nature and literature but lives in a family of Philistines who try to crush her. What more can I say? Either you're compelled to read it or you're not. I loved it. ...more
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I admit that I enjoy most well-written books that take me back to my now-renounced Catholic childhood. A mystery where the detective is a Reverend Mother? That's catnip for me. The fact that it's set in Ireland in the 1920s made it doubly irresistibl ...more
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Carol Douglas rated a book it was amazing Horse by Geraldine Brooks (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
Horse is a spectacularly good novel by noted author Geraldine Brooks. It deserves all the praise given to it. I recommend it. Be warned there is a little material about horses' suffering, but very little for a book about horses. Racing history in the ...more
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Carol Douglas rated a book liked it Midnight Train to Prague by Carol Windley	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
Midnight Train to Prague is a good novel about Germany and Czechoslovakia in the years leading up to World War II and during the war. The main characters are aristocratic Czechs and upper-class Germans. The central character, a girl in the beginning, ...more
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Carol Douglas rated a book it was amazing Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (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
Imagine that the government took away your children. It's happened to Indigenous people and to immigrants at the border. But imagine that it's happening to anyone who's deemed insufficiently patriotic. This occurs in a United States where China is be ...more
Dec 27, 2022 02:44PM · 3 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Carol Douglas rated a book really liked it Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu (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
This book tells the story of a mother and young son going through the War of Agression (the Japanese attack on and occupation of China) and the fighting between the Communists and the Kuomintang. They escape to Taiwan. I've never before read what hap ...more
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Carol Douglas rated a book really liked it Turning for Home by Caren J. Werlinger (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
Like all of Werlinger's books that I've read, this novel is excellent. The characters are complex. Both the lesbian love and friendship relationships and the family relationships are well-developed. This is the story of women in the middle of their l ...more
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Carol Douglas rated a book it was amazing Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher (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
Leftover Women is an excellent book about the way the government of China restricts women's lives. It was written in 2013 but I suspect that conditions are worse, not better, as they are for most Chinese people. In a retreat from the expressed though ...more
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Carol Douglas rated a book it was amazing The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich	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 Night Watchman is my favorite of Louise Erdrich's books. It's a story about how members of the Chippewa resisted a 1953 federal attempt to terminate their tribal status and their government funding for health, education, and other vital needs. On ...more
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Carol Douglas rated a book it was amazing The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields	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
I didn't expect to like this book a great deal because I generally prefer books with more drama than this appeared to offer. I was wrong! The Stone Diaries is insightful and beautifully written. This is the story of a family from Manitoba. That's sign ...more
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“Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action”
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