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Sharon’s 2022 Year in Books
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Book three is scheduled for October 2017!
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The Violin Maker's Daughter
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2019
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Of Marriageable Age
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43 editions
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The Soldier's Girl
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2018
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Girl in a Red Silk Sari: The Lost Daughter of India
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2017
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7 editions
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The Secret Life of Winnie Cox
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2015
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The Sugar Planter's Daughter
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2016
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4 editions
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The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q
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2014
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The Girl from the Sugar Plantation
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2017
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The Orphan of India
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2017
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Her Darkest Hour
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2020
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At Last!
The Lost Daughter of India is back -- and she's now the Girl in a Red Silk Sari!
Yes, indeed! After the rights to the novel reverted to me, I decided to give it a complete makeover -- a new cover, a new title, a new description, and even revised content!
This time, the description goes straight to the heart of the matter: to Asha, and her terrible predicament; the distress of her parents, the guilt Read more of this blog post »
Yes, indeed! After the rights to the novel reverted to me, I decided to give it a complete makeover -- a new cover, a new title, a new description, and even revised content!
This time, the description goes straight to the heart of the matter: to Asha, and her terrible predicament; the distress of her parents, the guilt Read more of this blog post »
Sharon’s Recent Updates
"Every once in awhile, you find a gem in the available selections from Amazon's (FREE) First Reads. However, lately I feel like you get what you pay for.
This book made me irrationally angry. ***SPOILERS*** Alice is set to marry Seth, the doctor of her d" Read more of this review » |
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"I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
As an original Dutch girl, with grandparents surviving the 2nd world War and listening to their stories, I always have been drawn to 2nd World War b" Read more of this review » |
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“She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.”
― Of Marriageable Age
― Of Marriageable Age
“As if some little spark in Trixie cognised some little spark in Saroj, and those two bright little sparks leaped in joy and bounced out at each other saying, Hi, here I am! Been missing you all my life. That's the way true friendships begin, those rare friendships as true as gold, that stand the knocks of time.”
― Of Marriageable Age
― Of Marriageable Age
“Good pain is pain that forces you to rise beyond it — then you are stronger than suffering.”
― Of Marriageable Age
― Of Marriageable Age
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| Around the World ...: TA: Circumnavigator / Rogue Traveler 2013 | 10 | 85 | Sep 16, 2013 09:06AM | |
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| Around the World ...: Guyana | 11 | 360 | Sep 06, 2015 07:25AM | |
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| Aussie Readers: Brenda's 2016 challenges | 59 | 86 | Sep 15, 2016 12:09AM | |
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| Challenge: 50 Books: Maggies Challenge for 2016 | 32 | 26 | Oct 19, 2016 08:43AM |
“If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.
If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
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If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.”
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“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”
― The Ugly Duckling
― The Ugly Duckling
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]”
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[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]”
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“Nein, die Schule hat keinen bestimmenden Einfluss auf meine Entwicklung gehabt. Die Schule hat von meinen besonderen Anlagen wohl instinktiv etwas gespürt, sie aber als obstinate Untauglichkeit gewertet und verworfen. Ein Lehrer drohte, zufällig nicht mir, sondern einem anderen Schüler, mit den Worten: "Ich werde dir deine Karriere schon verderben!" Am gleichen Tag las ich bei Storm den Spruch: "Was du immer kannst, zu werden, scheue Arbeit nicht und Wachen, aber hüte deine Seele vor dem Karrieremachen.”
― Über mich selbst: Autobiographische Schriften
― Über mich selbst: Autobiographische Schriften
“Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gone Girl
Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men – friends, coworkers, strangers – giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them. I’d want to grab the poor guy by his lapels or messenger bag and say: The bitch doesn’t really love chili dogs that much – no one loves chili dogs that much! And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be. Oh, and if you’re not a Cool Girl, I beg you not to believe that your man doesn’t want the Cool Girl. It may be a slightly different version – maybe he’s a vegetarian, so Cool Girl loves seitan and is great with dogs; or maybe he’s a hipster artist, so Cool Girl is a tattooed, bespectacled nerd who loves comics. There are variations to the window dressing, but believe me, he wants Cool Girl, who is basically the girl who likes every fucking thing he likes and doesn’t ever complain. (How do you know you’re not Cool Girl? Because he says things like: “I like strong women.” If he says that to you, he will at some point fuck someone else. Because “I like strong women” is code for “I hate strong women.”)”
― Gone Girl
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Hello old friend, nice to catch up with you again.Catch up with me and the writers' co-op at www.writerschoice.co.nz.
but do chat if you can.
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Lucy wrote: "Thanks for the friend request, Sharon. I do hope your reading experience with TNC improves, although if it doesn't I hope you're not against dropping it. I stuck through it so I could do a proper r..."Hi Lucy!
I finished the Night Circus and I agree with every word of your review. I am so annoyed with myself for not reading the i star reviews before buying the book - I would have been warned. What a let down. And yes, I did stick with it to the end - I felt I owed it to the author, who is a member of the same writing group I belong to and I know of her personal struggles to get it published. That's why I won't be writing a review myself.
Keep up the good work -- reading a bad review can really help people judge the book; your mention of "slugs" would have been a red flag to me!
Thanks for the friend request, Sharon. I do hope your reading experience with TNC improves, although if it doesn't I hope you're not against dropping it. I stuck through it so I could do a proper review, but there's been a few books I stuck with when I really should have just let go.
