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Richard’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Richard McGowan
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Member Since
May 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/smashed-rat-on-press
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A Modest Collection of Slightly Shocking Fairy Tales
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2013
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Fumie's Teacup
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1995
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The Typographer's Left Shoe
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2011
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Majestic Freiks
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2008
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An Uncommon Surfeit of Lipstick
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2012
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The Fantastical Tale of Gronthilda and the Bream Stock
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2011
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Apple Blossom Dreams
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2002
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The Complete Lesser Works of Shenanigan Cheesefield
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2013
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Yvette's Gift and Other Stories
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2012
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The Little Book of Chrysean Tales
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2013
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Tedious Processes, New Links, Year-End Sales Report
Good evening, or other local time of day on your planet! Here in the Pacific Time Zone of California, northern hemisphere of planet Earth, it's New Year's Eve, 2022. (Yes, that's just another random point in time for most non-Earth denizens of the galaxy and elsewhere.) This 2022 thing has been another mostly-dreadful year of weird weirdness (even for California), during which Covid didn't disappe
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| "A recent Wired article on AI had the journalist Christopher Beam stating: “After almost 20 years of typing words for money, I can say from experience, writing sucks. Ask any professional writer and they’ll tell you, it’s the worst, and it doesn’t ..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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| "The Gist is for everyone who doesn’t want to miss a thing from my Substack AnnelieWrites, and who appreciates a quick overview of all the stuff that happened this month. Launch! AnnelieWrites launched August 10, and here’s why. Free Stuff! Yep, br..." Read more of this blog post » | |
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| Wow, I'm amazed and even a tad embarrassed that I have hitherto never reviewed anything by JK Bangs, although I've read several of his works and own a few old editions... I have a hard-bound copy of this book, found in one of those musty "antique" st ...more | |
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| Charming cozy set in the 1950s. I definitely like the protagonists, Flora and Jack. I'm always a fan of bookshop and literary settings, too. Writing is very smooth and flows well. There's quite a bit of back story included about both of them, so the ...more | |
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| Fairy Godreaders: More discoveries | 7 | 11 | Mar 08, 2015 12:12PM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: The Title Game - Part Deux | 8290 | 2685 | Nov 11, 2021 05:18AM | |
| Sci-Fi, fantasy a...: Who are you? | 1159 | 708 | Jan 04, 2023 08:23AM |
“Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.”
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“The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.”
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“Crowdfunding is the new black.”
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“Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres.”
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“Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone's future at once and they'll never know what hit them.”
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