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Christina Baehr

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I live in wild and cosy Tasmania, Australia, and I write intrepid historical heroines who discover the world is more wondrous than they previously imagined.

I'm also a big reader of books both old and new, so here's a quick heads up about my review policy:

1. If you are a living author, as another living author I will not be giving you a critical review, because I know writing books is hard! Reading mean reviews makes everything harder.

2. If you are dead, the gloves are off!

3. Absence of stars may mean ambivalence as to quality, it may also mean I don't feel Aristotle needs my star rating.

4. Five stars may not mean I think the book is perfect. It can mean that I deeply enjoyed the book despite inevitable flaws, or that I consider it an excell
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Christina Baehr In the same sense that Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dorothy Sayers, CS Lewis, and JRR Tolkien were Christian authors, yes! (I mean, with only a tiny…moreIn the same sense that Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Dorothy Sayers, CS Lewis, and JRR Tolkien were Christian authors, yes! (I mean, with only a tiny fraction of their craft!) But I do not write books that fit seamlessly within the commonly-accepted genre expectations of Christian Fiction, so you won’t find me categorising my books that way.(less)
Christina Baehr Yes! November 15. And VALLEY OF DRAGONS will cover the time period of September to Christmas 1899 (just in case you were wondering!).
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Waking up to an Author's Nightmare

Yesterday, I discovered through a reader review (annac5) here on Goodreads that something was rotten in the state of Denmark, or rather, Hoopla.

Somehow, in a nightmare scenario I am still unable to explain, Hoopla is distributing an early, unfinished, unedited version of my latest novel.

This is devastating to me. I worked very hard on this novel. My readers deserve the best I can offer.

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"I loved this so much! Thank you, thank you Christina for recommending it! I ordered my own copy so I can reread this. I hope to write more but just wanted to note one thing I especially loved. Andrew and David are such noble men. They’re quite differ" Read more of this review »
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Suzannah Rowntree is 34% done with The King's Messenger: Okay this book has picked up speed now, the prose has smoothed out and the depiction of James I is fabulously chilling
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If ever there was a story where the rather silly idea "we shouldn't get together because we might ruin the friendship" applied, this is the one. The friendship is so good. Can we keep things lik" Read more of this review »
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A delightful MG epic fantasy tribute to classics like The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Treasure Island, with a pinch of Patrick O’Brian.

And this one had some nice twists on the formula Nix has established in this series. One small quibble: I would
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Oh, I liked this one even more than the first!

A wonderful climactic battle that hinges on human creativity nourished by love and security versus AI slop fuelled by greed and theft (even though this was written before AI slop was a thing).

I love the M
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“Doing everything yourself isn’t strength. It’s a kind of weakness, really. When you trust other people enough to ask them to help you—to admit your own weakness—there’s strength in that. A three-strand cord is not easily broken. But one strand on its own is sure to break.”
Christina Baehr, City of Serpents

“I began to wonder why I had ever thought I lived in a world without dragons.”
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“Courage is love defying fear.”
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Elizabeth von Arnim, In the Mountains

“We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.”
Rosemary Sutcliff

“Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this seem possible. But isn't that an idea of only minor importance? Doesn't every human being, no matter which era he lives in, always have to reckon with being accountable to God at any moment? Can I know whether I'll be alive tomorrow morning? A bomb could destroy all of us tonight. And then my guilt would not be one bit less than if I perished together with the arth and the stars.”
Sophie Scholl

“He picked up one of the dead bats and covered it with his handkerchief. ‘Somebody’s mother,’ he murmured reverently.”
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“In me there is darkness,
But with You there is light;
I am lonely, but You do not leave me;
I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help;
I am restless, but with You there is peace.
In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience;
I do not understand Your ways,
But You know the way for me.”

“Lord Jesus Christ,
You were poor
And in distress, a captive and forsaken as I am.
You know all man’s troubles;
You abide with me
When all men fail me;
You remember and seek me;
It is Your will that I should know You
And turn to You.
Lord, I hear Your call and follow;
Help me.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

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