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V.S.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at V.S.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Deep Zero
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A Dana Hargrove Double: Thursday's List and Homicide Chart (Dana Hargrove #1-2)
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Forsaken Oath
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Thursday's List
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Seven Shadows
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Homicide Chart
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Your Pick: Selected Stories
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Power Blind (Dana Hargrove #6)
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Indelicate Deception
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Love and Crime: Stories
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“Could not put it down!” — 5-star reader review
“Propulsive... Readers who enjoy family dramas will find much to admire in this buoyant tale.” — Publishers Weekly
Bronz Medalist, Readers' Favorite Awards 2025. Read more of this blog post »
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"Having recently read Lake Life, Poissant's first novel, I was interested in reading his story collection that preceded it. These humanistic stories, allegorical and realistic, and told in beautiful prose, are about the desire and failure to connect, "
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"What a knockout debut short story collection. I realize I’ve listed it under an absurd number of categories, but that’s because it really does have it all: pathos, sarcasm, humor and wisdom; multiple narrative techniques; characters who whine, flub a"
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"Do yourself a favor: pick up this story collection. Now. You'll be moved, overwhelmed, touched, and blown away by these stories. Do it.
After finishing David James Poissant's debut collection, The Heaven of Animals, last night, first I marveled at jus" Read more of this review » |
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“She’d discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from hard work.”
― Malocclusion, tales of misdemeanor
― Malocclusion, tales of misdemeanor
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there was something waiting for her on the other side of this crowd.”
― Thursday's List
― Thursday's List
“Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward and collapsed onto the floor in a fetal position, the letter in shreds around her. The room had grown dark. Like a gentle snowfall, the cold mantle of an unbearable silence descended.”
― Homicide Chart
― Homicide Chart
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| Making Connections: 875. MALOCCLUSION, TALES OF A MISDEMEANOR by V.S. Kemanis | 1 | 9 | Feb 13, 2013 07:56PM | |
| Making Connections: 876. EVERYONE BUT US, TALES OF WOMEN by V.S. Kemanis | 1 | 10 | Feb 13, 2013 07:58PM | |
| Making Connections: 877. DUST OF THE UNIVERSE, TALES OF FAMILY by V.S. Kemanis | 1 | 11 | Feb 13, 2013 07:59PM | |
| Making Connections: 874. THURSDAY'S LIST, A DANA HARGROVE LEGAL MYSTERY by V.S. Kemanis | 3 | 28 | Apr 21, 2013 05:14PM | |
| Goodreads Librari...: Adding "about author" to a book | 2 | 13 | Dec 31, 2016 01:59PM | |
| Goodreads Authors...: Review Copies Available | 1 | 9 | Feb 13, 2017 07:06PM | |
| Creative Reviews: If you enjoy literary fiction: ARCs available | 1 | 4 | Feb 14, 2017 05:00PM | |
Precinct 81:
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| Precinct 81: Group #3: (Fff) Lusie, Ashley and MH | 479 | 23 | Dec 07, 2018 05:01AM |
“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”
― State of Wonder
― State of Wonder
“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”
― Point Omega
― Point Omega
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
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Dec 02, 2016 07:41AM
VS, thanks so much for noticing the Killer Nashville nom. I'm sorry I didn't see this till now!
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VS, thanks so much for noticing the Killer Nashville nom. I'm sorry I didn't see this till now!
Jill wrote: "Great to meet you V.S., and thank you for your friendship here on GRs. We seem to have gone along the same journey with sociology, the legal profession and the ballet. Amazing!"Thanks, Jill! Interesting that I've met several lawyers in ballet class--must be all that discipline!
Great to meet you V.S., and thank you for your friendship here on GRs. We seem to have gone along the same journey with sociology, the legal profession and the ballet. Amazing!
