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Laini’s 2022 Year in Books
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Laini Giles
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Having someone tell you they loved your book is about as good as it gets!
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The Forgotten Flapper: A Novel of Olive Thomas (Forgotten Actresses, #1)
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2015
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The It Girl and Me: A Novel of Clara Bow
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2017
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Love Lies Bleeding
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2013
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Bathing Beauty: A Novel of Marie Prevost (Forgotten Actresses #3)
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Joy Girl: A Novel of Olive Borden
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The Forgotten Actresses Collection 1
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Apologies for the Radio Silence
Hello everyone, and I’m sorry for the long absence.
For those of you who aren’t on my mailing list and aren’t aware, we found out back in January that my husband Allan was very sick with a fast-moving, very aggressive form of gastro-esophageal cancer.
The first few months of the year were a nightmare of caring for him during the Covid epidemic, and trying to keep him (and myself) safe so we wouldn
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"First, I should probably go ahead and thank Allison for this one. She threw this into a Christmas box she sent me as a last minute whim. To be honest, I probably never would have picked it up on my own. But that would have been a shame, because this "
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"Dull and plain. I reached 40% of the book and there was no plot or conflict. I’m a huge fan of this genre but this kind of books are the reason many people think is like a boring soap opera. Victoria as a character has nothing remarkable or that make"
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"Don't know who the target audience was for this book but if it was for midgrade readers then it was okay. The book seemed very amateurish. There were numerous errors that attributed dialogue and actions to the wrong character, sentences that stretche"
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Readers' 55 Most Anticipated Books of Fall
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Moonlighting wrote: "Did I miss historical fiction or there is simply no such category? (Or no historical dramas are coming out this fall…?) Quite a p
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“You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.”
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“Life is nothing if you're not obsessed.”
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“It's like making a sandwich. I start with the bread and the meat. That's the architecture. Add some cheese, lettuce and tomato. That's character development and polishing. Then, the fun part. All the little historical details and the slang and the humor is the mayonnaise. I go back and slather that shit everywhere. The mayo is the best part. I'm a bit messy with the mayo.”
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| Making Connections: 1416. - LOVE LIES BLEEDING by Laini Giles | 12 | 94 | Feb 24, 2014 03:41AM | |
| New Books Network: Historical Fiction | 88 | 34 | Aug 09, 2019 10:38AM | |
| The Lost Challenges: Read The Quote 2020 | 108 | 122 | Sep 26, 2023 06:40AM |
“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
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“I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so you end up grinning and nodding your way into a three-way with a henna vendor and a camel.”
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
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“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.”
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