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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Richard McGowan
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Member Since
May 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/smashed-rat-on-press
Popular Answered Questions
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A Modest Collection of Slightly Shocking Fairy Tales
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2013
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Fumie's Teacup
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1995
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Majestic Freiks
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2008
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The Typographer's Left Shoe
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2011
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An Uncommon Surfeit of Lipstick
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2012
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The Fantastical Tale of Gronthilda and the Bream Stock
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2011
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Apple Blossom Dreams
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2002
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3 editions
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The Complete Lesser Works of Shenanigan Cheesefield
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2013
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Yvette's Gift and Other Stories
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2012
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The Little Book of Chrysean Tales
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2013
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Bio Update
In the FYI department... Now that GR has removed direct messaging, it could be more difficult to reach me, as well as other #SROP authors, and authors in general. (For people who like to send email to authors informing them about typographical errors and things like that.)
So, I have added a link to the #SROP contact page to my GR bio here, just in case anyone here needs the info. (For example, som Read more of this blog post »
So, I have added a link to the #SROP contact page to my GR bio here, just in case anyone here needs the info. (For example, som Read more of this blog post »
Richard’s Recent Updates
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is 48% done with The Pennington Perplexity
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| An amusing short book that introduces the characters Shirley Holmes and Donna Watson who apparently have further adventures in a whole series. (The character names and book title are really the only allusions to Doyle's Sherlock, by the way. The plot ...more | |
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| This is a cute/sweet book for summer reading. I liked the cousins Sophie & Jessica, and the folks in the small town of Pine Hill. The story went in a direction that surprised me, in good ways. The writing is fine and breezy; no typos spotted. I'll be ...more | |
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| Enjoyable quick read. I liked the unusual elements, including the Jewish community in London (in the regency era) and some colorful characters. The narrator's introduction before chapter one was also useful to me in briefly framing the narrative, as ...more | |
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| This is a fabulous biography. I wanted to read it initially because I had read two of the (little known) books by Virginia Faulkner in recent years. I went so far as to pre-order it in hardback from the press as soon as I heard it was forthcoming. Se ...more | |
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| This was quite an enjoyable story. I found the writing style pleasant and rather charming. Briefly, after the death of their father, sisters Grace and Heather are thrown out of their home when their cousin Charles sells the estate out from under them ...more | |
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| Fairy Godreaders: Should we use lists? | 9 | 14 | Jul 11, 2014 04:57AM | |
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| Fairy Godreaders: More discoveries | 7 | 11 | Mar 08, 2015 12:12PM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: The Title Game - Part Deux | 8189 | 2711 | Nov 11, 2021 05:18AM | |
| Sci-Fi, fantasy a...: Who are you? | 1153 | 711 | Jan 04, 2023 08:23AM |
“Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.”
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“The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.”
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“Crowdfunding is the new black.”
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“Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres.”
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“Look― shoot all you want. With a camera you can barely capture a soul at a time. With planned obsolescence, you can terminate everyone's future at once and they'll never know what hit them.”
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