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Sheila’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sheila’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Sheila Balls
Goodreads Author
Born
in North Bay Ontario, Canada
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Influences
anne lamott garrison keillor
Member Since
March 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/alley1
Hold hands and move forward
Towards morning but still fully dark I am wakened by the soft pad of a cat stepping carefully across the bed to look into my face: “Are you awake?”
I used to write then, up at the lake, those nights I could not sleep, but it has been a long time since I felt like writing through the dark hours . . . maybe because of the “dark hours” we have gone through in our own life.
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I used to write then, up at the lake, those nights I could not sleep, but it has been a long time since I felt like writing through the dark hours . . . maybe because of the “dark hours” we have gone through in our own life.
In those years we lived in Read more of this blog post »
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All Right So Far
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Somebody Move the Cat!
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2003
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Our Side of the Fence: Tales from the Not-So-Deep Woods
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Our Side of the Fence
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2005
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Walk This Way
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Sheila’s Recent Updates
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| 1990s police investigation in Toronto deals with an unidentified body from 30 years earlier. This is one of two timelines in a historical fiction that shines the light on a dark chapter of Canadian history. The second story describes how a young jour ...more | |
"This is what great historical fiction looks like. Liberty Street is a story that will educate you about the past, make you emotional and confront horrific truths as it pulls you into the lives of characters who will remain with you long after the las"
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"4.5 stars! Wow wow WOW. The blurb describes this as “a riveting novel” and they got it so right. This was a work of historical fiction brilliance that shines a spotlight on a not-so-distant past that should make all its readers feel enraged, moved, i"
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"Wow! Historical fiction at its finest. I love how this author writes about events in women’s history that many people are not aware of. I had to research and learn more about this Female Prison in Toronto. I have also never heard of the Female Refuge"
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| Quick moving plot and interesting characters in this sequel to Blood Hollow. Cork O’Connor mystery number six deals with child trafficking. I admire the author‘s ability to make one of a series stand alone without the reader having read earlier books ...more | |
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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
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“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
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“No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“If thou of fortune be bereft,
and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
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and in thy store there be but left
two loaves, sell one, and with the
dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.”
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For those who love cats and reading novels about them, too!
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Q&A with Lori Lansens
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Lori Lansens will be answering reader questions from April 5 to May 5th.
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