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Thomas Christopher Greene
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
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Member Since
November 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/thomaschristophergreene
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The Headmaster's Wife
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2014
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14 editions
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The Perfect Liar
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2019
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4 editions
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If I Forget You
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2016
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14 editions
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Mirror Lake
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2003
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21 editions
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
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I'll Never Be Long Gone
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2005
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9 editions
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Envious Moon
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2007
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8 editions
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After the Rain
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published
2004
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5 editions
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Thomas Greene
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Jade Walker's review
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World:
"What a lovely collection! This book captures a moment in time where we all had to deal with the pandemic in our own ways. Some struggled, some thrived, and some didn’t make it.
Notes from the Porch is a book that reminds readers to pay attention to t" Read more of this review » |
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World:
"Thomas Christopher Greene’s “Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World” caught me in its web and surprised me with an astonishing poignancy. As described, these stories are tiny, each around a couple of pages lon"
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Sherry's review
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World:
"This is the PERFECT read for a lazy Sunday afternoon. I say that because it's Sunday and I just read this great little book by Thomas Greene. I have not read any of his books before but I can tell you I've made a note of the others he has written to "
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Katy's review
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World:
"Much like Ross Gay's work, Notes from the Porch invites us into an appreciative, slowed down, well observed world. It reminds me of the concept of "joy snacks". Bite sized stories told crisply and with a sense of wonder, connection, and awe, but not "
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“...time can be slowed if you live deliberately. If you stop and watch sunsets. If you spend time sitting on porches listening to the woods. If you give in to the reality of the seasons.”
― I'll Never Be Long Gone
― I'll Never Be Long Gone
“And she thinks perhaps that is what love is: letting someone else see that part of you that shatters like glass...They will grow old together, broken together, and as long as they both don't completely shatter at the same time, they might find a way to pick each other off the ground.”
― The Headmaster's Wife
― The Headmaster's Wife
“Together it was a life, and it might not be a perfect life, but she had built it and she thought: I cannot do this. All love eventually flamed out, didn't it? Was anything permanent? Wouldn't she find herself lying next to Owen and feel the same way she felt about Charlie? Oh yes, she thought, shat she had with Charlie might not be exciting, but there was something to be said for the quiet love of two people who had been together forever, the ease they shared, where she did not ever worry about him, where she took him for granted, not as that sounded, but in a positive sense, in the way you come to rely on the snow of winter and the heat of summer, on the solid warmth of a great meal.”
― I'll Never Be Long Gone
― I'll Never Be Long Gone
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