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Julia Sonneborn

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Julia Sonneborn is an English professor and a Los Angeles native. After heading east for college and graduate school, she hightailed it back to California, where she now lives with her husband, two kids, two cats, and a dog. When she’s not reading, writing, or talking about books, she enjoys trying new restaurants, reading online gossip blogs, and throwing dinner parties. She is the author of By the Book.

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Julia Sonneborn I started a book last summer and gave up when I was about 1/3 of the way through. Trying to come up with ideas for another novel, but I am struggling!…moreI started a book last summer and gave up when I was about 1/3 of the way through. Trying to come up with ideas for another novel, but I am struggling! They say the second book is much harder than the first, and I am finding this to be absolutely true.(less)
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One City, One Book

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Has anyone participated in a One Book community reading program? Where everyone in a city reads and discusses the same book? I love the idea of this—it’s like a bigger version of a book club, except the members are your fellow citizens. In Los Angeles, where I live, the Southern California Library has suggested Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower as the “one book” to read together as a c

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“To claim another person's words as one's own was unthinkable. It was the cardinal sin of writing”
Julia Sonneborn, By the Book

“There was nothing I held more sacred than words.”
Julia Sonneborn, By the Book

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