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Kris Radish

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Kris started writing the moment she could hold a pencil. She grew up in Wisconsin, graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a journalism degree and hit the ground running. Her father called her "the tornado". She worked as a newspaper reporter, bureau chief, nationally syndicated columnist, magazine writer, university lecturer, bartender, waitress, worm harvester, window washer....to name a few. Her first two books were non-fiction and then Radish became a full-time novelist. The Elegant Gathering of White Snows, Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn, The Sunday List of Dreams, Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral and Searching for Paradise in Parker, P.A., The Shortest Distance Between Two Women, Hearts on a String, Tuesday Night ...more

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Kris Radish I am one of the luckiest people in the world as I knew from the time I was a little girl that I was going to be a writer. Nothing could stop me...alth…moreI am one of the luckiest people in the world as I knew from the time I was a little girl that I was going to be a writer. Nothing could stop me...although people and events have tried but I forge on!(less)
Kris Radish A working mother cannot afford to have writer's block!…moreA working mother cannot afford to have writer's block!(less)
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moments of joy…

Just this second the sky is a littered with ribbons of red and orange.  There is a backdrop of deep blue caressing the edges of the horizon as if this entire half of the universe is playing catch-me-if-you-can.

It’s absolutely beautiful.  My throat is up between my eyeballs and this is a moment of joy that happens more than you might think.

These little gems are everywhere.

This morning I saw my daug

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“There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.”
Kris Radish, The Shortest Distance Between Two Women: A Novel

“I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.”
Kris Radish, Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral

“Not going back is fine.
Not going back but occasionally visiting might be best.
Not going back but remembering so you don’t see the same view twice.
Not going back so you can turn a new page, write a new chapter, develop an entire new list.
Not going back so you can stretch and grow and see yourself in a light that you never knew existed.
Not going back so that you can fly. Fly. ”
Kris Radish, The Sunday List of Dreams

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The Japanese Lover The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende by Isabel Allende From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War.
 
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The Night Guest The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane by Fiona McFarlane The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane’s hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspense to tell us, with exceptional grace and beauty, about aging, love, trust, dependence, and fear; about processes of colonization; and about things (and people) in places they shouldn’t be.
 
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Tuesday Night Miracles Tuesday Night Miracles by Kris Radish by Kris RadishIn this poignant and transformative novel, bestselling author Kris Radish weaves a tale of five women yearning for change—and the potential for happiness that lies within every heart.
 
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Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession Cleaving A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession by Julie Powell by Julie PowellJulie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING.
 
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The Color of Light The Color of Light by Karen White by Karen WhiteAt thirty-two, pregnant and recently divorced, Jillian Parrish and her seven-year-old daughter find refuge and solace on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. Jillian had experienced her best childhood memories here-until her best friend Lauren Mills disappeared, never to be found.
 
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Lost Among the Living Lost Among the Living by Simone St. James by Simone St. JamesEngland, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family’s estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never knew about her husband’s origins…and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths’ past is just the beginning…
 
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Mendel's Dwarf Mendel's Dwarf by Simon Mawer by Simon MawerLike his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia—he's a dwarf.
 
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Tape Tape by Steven Camden by Steven CamdenRecord a voice and it lasts forever…

In 1993, Ryan records a diary on an old tape. He talks about his mother’s death, about his dreams, about his love for a new girl at school who doesn’t even know he exists.
 
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The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco by Umberto EcoThe year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective.
 
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The Two-Family House The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman by Lynda Cohen LoigmanBrooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes apart to two women.From debut novelist Lynda Cohen Loigman comes The Two-Family House, a moving family saga filled with heart, emotion, longing, love, and mystery.
 
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Donna Kris,
Thank you for friending me on Good Reads. I am also following on Twitter. Have entered your giveaway.


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