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S.M.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at S.M.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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S.M. Stevens
Goodreads Author
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in The United States
Website
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Influences
Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Kristin Hannah
Member Since
May 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/smstevens
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Beautiful & Terrible Things
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: A Novel
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2019
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6 editions
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The Wallace House of Pain
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2022
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4 editions
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Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers (Bit Players, #1)
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2011
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2 editions
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Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels
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2012
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2 editions
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Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
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2014
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2 editions
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Shannon's Odyssey
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Belles et terribles choses
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Oh, how I wish people who rate a book would take 30 seconds to also write a sentence about why they chose that rating! Especially if the rating is poor. Just imagine your teacher handing you back a paper with a low grade but refusing to tell you why
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| This is an incredible, compelling story that needed to be told. It conveys the horror and the unimaginable fear of living under the Nazi occupation – when human connection was dangerous, neighbor turned on neighbor to survive, and trust could prove f ...more | |
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| Amato has written a classic family saga that unfolds over five generations and almost 140 years, following the Mancuso family’s emigration from Sicily and the new life they build in America. At its heart is Tommaso, whose tale tugs at your heartstrin ...more | |
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| This is a very fun, and very funny, techno thriller. The pace is fast, the villain well-drawn and the stakes high. But best of all is the couple at the heart of the story: Alix and Nik. Their chemistry comes off the page and their banter is priceless ...more | |
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Class Reunion: Keep Your FRIENDS Closer (Raising the Bar Book 2)
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| How do you not love a heroine who rose above a crappy childhood, built a solid career for herself, and retains the ability to love fiercely? On top of that, she’s blunt, funny, and a sucker for a corner piece of sheet cake, since it has the most fros ...more | |
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| You don’t have to have experienced menopause to appreciate Peg, Unhinged, with its laugh-out-loud scenes, groan-inducing bad choices and, ultimately, sympathetic protagonist. But if you have suffered through hot flashes and foggy brain, you’ll apprec ...more | |
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Reading Don’t Look in the Freezer is like sitting down with a friend in front of a roaring fire and trading your best, funniest, and most poignant pet stories. I consider myself the perfect reader for this book as my childhood dream was to be a veteri ...more |
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| This is one of those hardship stories that pulls you along through the sheer force of the main character's will. Grace is a unique heroine, coming to New York City via the Congo, Jamaica and England, her hair prematurely white at age 27. The mother o ...more | |
“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.”
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“When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.”
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“This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He was going to be naked in the shower on the other side of my bedroom wall. And I was going to be naked in the shower with him in my house.”
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.”
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“This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He was going to be naked in the shower on the other side of my bedroom wall. And I was going to be naked in the shower with him in my house.”
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
“When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.”
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“The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.”
― Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers
― Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers
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