V.S. Kemanis
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Deep Zero
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2018
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Seven Shadows
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Homicide Chart
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2014
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Your Pick: Selected Stories
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Forsaken Oath
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Thursday's List
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2012
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Love and Crime: Stories
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A Dana Hargrove Double: Thursday's List and Homicide Chart (Dana Hargrove #1-2)
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Dust of the Universe, tales of family
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2012
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Everyone But Us, tales of women
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2012
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""As if by some supernatural signal, when Dad would start to moan, Doc would slip in the front door."
Lands, a semi-retired hematologist, brings small-town Tennessee to life in this debut collection of fifteen linked short stories. The author's strong " Read more of this review » |
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"The Big Sleep,The Debut of Philip Marlowe
Welcome to sunny L.A. It's sunny unless you're caught without an umbrella or you're dead. It's 1939. A lot of people don't know it, but in a couple of years, a lot of girls and boys are going to take the big sl" Read more of this review » |
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"The Sense of an Ending: Julian Barne's novel of Time, Memory, and Lost Opportunity
"My life didn't turn out as I expected."--Roy Hobbs, from The Natural by Bernard Malamud Julian Barnes was up against some stiff competition when the finalists were sele" Read more of this review » |
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“I was pondering the vanity of human wishes and the desperation of human hope, the tooth of time, the vulnerability of good and the unseen omnipresence of evil, and the frailty and passion of life.”
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"Loved this so much! Back an is great at characters and unlayering a story.
Loved this paragraph: Spring arrives. It always finds us in the end. The wind sweeps winter away, the trees rustle and birds start making a fuss, and nature suddenly crashes thr" 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
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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 |
“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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Thanks, Jill! Interesting that I've met several lawyers in ballet class--must be all that discipline!