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Melissa McShane
Goodreads Author
Born
in Portland, Oregon, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
July 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/melissamcshane
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Burning Bright (The Extraordinaries, #1)
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2016
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11 editions
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Servant of the Crown (The Crown of Tremontane, #1)
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2015
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9 editions
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The Book of Secrets (The Last Oracle, #1)
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2018
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8 editions
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The Book of Peril (The Last Oracle, #2)
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The Book of Mayhem (The Last Oracle, #3)
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2019
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5 editions
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Wondering Sight (The Extraordinaries, #2)
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2017
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10 editions
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The Book of Lies (The Last Oracle, #4)
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2019
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3 editions
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Rider of the Crown (The Crown of Tremontane, #2)
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2015
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3 editions
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The Book of Betrayal (The Last Oracle, #5)
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2019
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3 editions
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The Book of Havoc (The Last Oracle, #6)
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2020
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3 editions
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My 2019 Reading Favorites
I read 79 books in 2019, which is lower than last year. Considering that I read a lot of my own books (either in editing or in preparing to write something new in a series) that number is actually more like 67. In looking at my spreadsheet where I track my reading, I see long weeks where I didn’t read anything at all. That’s the tradeoff for me as a writer–either I’m reading or I’m writing, but I’
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Melissa McShane
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Sex on Murder Island (Luella van Horn #2):
"Best described as a wacky mystery. Marie, under the guise of her nom-de-detctive Luelle, is hired by a kind of creepy guy to find out if his wife is playing him false. She desperately needs cash, and so she's on her way to Murder Island--only to be i"
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"A delightful, found-family, second-chance, mostly-cozy fantasy about an iriscible three-headed dragon (whose heads quarrel among themselves, providing much of the humor) who bonds with an immigrant woman not permitted to be a dragon rider . . .
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"This is women's fiction that is not quite satire and not quite horror, exploring the politics and ethics of surrogacy in a dystopian world paralleling our present, in which women try to “have it all” while coping with the world of capitalism with min"
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A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8):
"The tenth floor has started and to everyone's surprise it is largely straight forward. It simply entails a race where you DO NOT want to come in last place. In between rounds racers get upgrades for their vehicles for the next race. This is all happe"
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| This was one of the books I read obsessively the year I was thirteen. I picked it up again to help me work out some details in my work-then-in-progress (it's finished now) and was once again struck by how compelling the story is for being such a rela ...more | |
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| Okay, so in the days before Star Trek was revitalized by the fourth movie and then ST:TNG, those of us who were fans subsisted on fanzines, Trek Magazine, and of course the Pocket novels. I was a diehard consumer of the books, and this one was in my ...more | |
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| Yeah, I did hunt down the first editions of this trilogy, because it was so important to me during my early teens. I think I like this better than Dragonsong, even though it's extremely low-stakes. Possibly it's Menolly's growing into herself and lea ...more | |
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| I really, really needed something familiar and heartwarming at the end of March, and my library was in the US and I was in India. (What I wanted to read is Drujienna's Harp, which was solidly not an option.) So, in scrolling through my spreadsheet of ...more | |
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| Re-read 5/8/26: It turns out my dyslexic daughter, who helps sell books when I go to shows, doesn't feel she knows enough to properly sell them to potential readers. As there are no Tremontane audiobooks (ignore the one for Servant of the Crown, it's ...more | |
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Re-read 5/12/26: Read aloud to my dyslexic daughter. She loved the political intrigue and (view spoiler). Re-read 10/2 ...more |
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“it’s because you’re a different person, every time you re-read a book, and you learn things your earlier self wouldn’t have noticed or wouldn’t have cared about. Or sometimes it’s just because the story is an old favorite, and it’s a comforting reminder of good things.”
― Servant of the Crown
― Servant of the Crown
“It gives me pleasure to walk through a room full of books and know that one of them might be the next story I fall in love with.”
― Servant of the Crown
― Servant of the Crown
“My people believe bathing weakens you,” Gerrard said. “But my people are well known to be uncivilized.” “Your people don’t believe in drinking coffee. That’s a fair definition of uncivilized.”
― Emissary
― Emissary
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“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
― Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
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“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
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“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Sourcery
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Sourcery
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Thanks for adding me Melissa. Happy reading to you :)