Skye Turner
Goodreads Author
Born
in Baton Rouge, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Too many to really mention all of them.
Member Since
January 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/skyeturner
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Alluring Turmoil (Bayou Stix, #1)
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2013
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Alluring Seduction (Bayou Stix, #2)
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2014
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Alluring Temptation (Bayou Stix, #3)
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2014
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Alluring Infatuation (Bayou Stix #4)
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2014
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Alluring Surrender (Bayou Stix, #5)
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2014
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Alluring Ties (Bayou Stix #2.5)
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2014
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James Black (James Black #1)
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2015
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Bayou Stix (Bayou Stix, #1-5)
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2015
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Riff (A Lil Bit Country & A Lil Bit Rock & Roll, #1)
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Unwanted Desire
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2015
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Skye’s Recent Updates
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I'm a big fan of Holly Hood. I'm not sure what I was expecting with this book, but what I got was not it. I was pleasantly surprised. Anonymous is a gritty, painful, and raw tale of addiction, but it's also a tale of hope. Elle is broken. There is no ...more |
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What an awesome book. This is not your regular girl meets boy, they fall in love, and they all live happily ever after story. It's gritty and real and hot. I loved it! I'll be honest, I went into the book not certain of how I'd like it, but I was ple ...more |
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Love this book. Romance, hot sex, a realistic 4 year old, and situations that had tears running down my face from laughing so hard. This book reminds me of my girlfriends and I and it was absolutely hilarious. Certainly worth the read. If you’ve been li ...more |
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Twist of Fate touched me. Silas and Lilly are both relatable characters and the situations they faced were all too real. My emotions were involved, and in more than one instance, my gut was clenching as I read through the scenes. A chance encounter w ...more |
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I received a very early ARC of Keeping His Princess, A High School Bully Romance by Tyleigh! I will start out by saying I am not typically a fan of bully romance. I don't personally like "let me be mean to you and then you fall in love with me" romanc ...more |
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The Lost Challenges: December 'Broaden Your Horizons' Monthly Challenge | 6 | 22 | Dec 31, 2013 04:39AM | |
The Lost Challenges: Quarterly Challenge- Oh The Places You'll Go! | 22 | 106 | Mar 26, 2014 11:28PM | |
The Lost Challenges: Junk Food Day Challenge: 31 flavors | 113 | 301 | Jul 16, 2015 12:53PM | |
A Million More Pages: ***Y-SS Sherlock Elba | 658 | 99 | Feb 06, 2016 02:11PM | |
A Million More Pages: Koyuk to Elim Checkpoint | 89 | 81 | Feb 08, 2016 03:53PM | |
The Lost Challenges: BeanBoozled | 179 | 347 | Oct 05, 2016 06:44AM |
“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
―
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.
Buy her another cup of coffee.
Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.
It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.
Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.
Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
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“You keep my heart beating, baby, but you can also make it fucking stop.”
― This Man Confessed
― This Man Confessed

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