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Diane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Diane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Diane Owens Prettyman’s Followers (37)
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Diane Owens Prettyman
Goodreads Author
Born
Roseburg, Oregon
Website
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Member Since
September 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/dianeowensprettyman
The Beauty of the Sentence–Why You Should Read Fiction
At the bookstore today, I heard one of the sales staff say that last year 80% of American households did not read a book. In 2012, the number of adults...
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Thin Places
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2012
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4 editions
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Love Is for the Birds
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2024
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2 editions
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Redesigning Emma
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2013
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3 editions
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Thin Places by Diane Owens Prettyman (2012-09-16)
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Diane’s Recent Updates
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Aug 12, 2025 07:14PM
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Diane Prettyman
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Another page-turner from Ruth Ware Buckle-up for this fast-paced thriller. Once again Ware delivers with a clever, unique plot, glamorous locales, and compelling characters. The protagonist, Lo, is portrayed with the perfect blend of sass and smarts. |
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"This book is a great story about love, loss and survival. For me, this book was all about the community feel and it was great to read about everyone rallying round in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Watching the main characters connect in the middle " Read more of this review » |
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"4 Stars
Love Is for the Birds: A Novel By Diane Owen Prettyman Love Is for the Birds Is a Women’s Fiction/ Contemporary Romance that is about unexpectedly finding love after a loss and the recovery process after a Hurricane. This is a fairly new author" Read more of this review » |
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"I really enjoyed reading this story. Teddy was checking out her late Mother's candy store after a hurricane to discover the store had been demolished. Her boyfriend Daniel wanted her to sell the property and move in with him in Houston.
She was trying" Read more of this review » |
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| From the first page, I knew I was in the hands of a masterful writer. Densie Webb guides us through the poignant and emotional journey of expertly drawn characters. I highly recommend this book. | |
“A word of forgiveness, not to mention love, goes a long way toward healing the soul.”
― Thin Places
― Thin Places
“Solitude does strange things to a man. When it's just you & your soul, you better be friends.”
― Thin Places
― Thin Places
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| Aussie Readers: **Spring Challenge - 1/9/25 - 30/11/25** | 216 | 160 | Dec 13, 2025 08:16PM |
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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— 1639 members
— last activity Dec 29, 2025 12:24PM
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The first book we will be reading is "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter. "Hopscotching between 1960s Italy and contemporary Hollywood, “Beautiful Ruins” ...more
My latest book, Redesigning Emma, is the story of a Manhattan milliner at the turn-of-the-last century. Determined to take the fashion world by storm, Emma launches her new line of twentieth century hats. But she soon learns that being a modern woman is more than she bargained for.