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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.
In those years we lived in Read more of this blog post »
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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The indigenous people of the north forest call the white pine trees “our grandfathers“. But these trees are much desired by the owner of the local lumber mill, and a battle is already being waged with an ecological group. In the midst of all this tens ...more |
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"There's tension brewing between the owner of the town's lumber mill and the local Anishinabee tribe. He wants to clear some great white pines in Our Grandfathers, sacred land for the tribe. When outside ecological activists get involved and an explos"
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"Purgatory Ridge (Cork O'Connor #3) by William Kent Krueger (Author), David Chandler (Narrator)
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The indigenous people of the north forest call the white pine trees “our grandfathers“. But these trees are much desired by the owner of the local lumber mill, and a battle is already being waged with an ecological group. In the midst of all this tens ...more |
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| When Cora (literally the core of the story) goes to register her son‘s birth, she struggles with the choice of a name. Three names suggest three varying life paths. But to me, Coras decision whether or not to stay in a dreadfully abusive marriage is ...more | |
"3.5 stars. I decided to round up on this because I did find it compelling, but with three separate parallel timelines I felt the stories and characters never quite got the depth and attention they deserved.
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This was my introduction to Jess Walter and I quite enjoyed it. I then read Beautiful Ruins. Liked it but not as much. Because of the road trip elemen
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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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