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Margo’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Margo’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Margo Laurie
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September 2022
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New York Miracle
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2022
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The Anarchist's Wife
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2022
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Letters to Whitman: A Short Story
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2023
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Folklore: Stories by writers from the Comma Short Story Course, Manchester, 2024
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WRITING THE GOTHIC: Stories by writers from the Comma Short Story Course, Manchester, 2025
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"Perhaps, because the whole scene was so nightmarish, with all the people spending their ordinary just-like-any-other-day at the pool, conducting business by the telephones whose wires were stretched round them like lifelines, and this earnest man in
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"I really tried—truly, heroically tried—to love his writing style, but I think it’s time to stop lying to myself. The ideas are great, absolutely, but the delivery? Let’s just say my brain remains "untickled"."
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"Kendra Elliot’s fourth book in the Mercy Kilpatrick series,
A Merciful Silence,
combines a crime novel, a police procedural, and a little romantic suspense into a novel full of action and drama. Mercy is an FBI special agent stationed in the Bend"
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The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways (British Library Tales of the Weird)
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"I'm going to need peroxide." He looked astonished. "Peroxide?" "I can't go to court with my roots like this." ...He gave a small cough. "Shouldn't you look more, um... downtrodden? To show you're sorry for what you did?" A historical fiction novel about ...more |
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“The truth is my soul craves gumdrops of sweetness and praise.”
― Letters to Whitman: A Short Story
― Letters to Whitman: A Short Story
“It was your father’s misfortune that a hoodlum confessed to the crime, as opposed to someone upstanding like, say, the President of General Motors.”
― The Anarchist's Wife
― The Anarchist's Wife
“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.”
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“In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I’ve lived to see my lost causes found.”
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Goodreads Librarians Group
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Will you be doing another Christmas book? I really enjoyed New York Miracle.
Pam wrote: "Will the Folklore book be coming out as a book? I don’t do Kindle.Pam"
That's very kind of you to ask, Pam, thank you 💜 It's an anthology of short stories by students (including me) on a creative writing course taught by the folklorist Sophie Parkes. I don't think there's any plan for it to be a paperback - it's only about 70 pages and more a memento of the course.
Will the Folklore book be coming out as a book? I don’t do Kindle.Pam
Paul wrote: "Thanks for the friend request and graphic novel recommendation, Margo. :-)"You're welcome - thanks for accepting! Looking forward to reading more of your reviews 😃
Thanks for the friend request and graphic novel recommendation, Margo. :-)
Wanda wrote: "Thank you for the friendvitation, Margo. I look forward to discussing books with you. 😊"Thanks for accepting, Wanda, I appreciate it! 😃 Looking forward to reading your reviews.
Thank you for the friendvitation, Margo. I look forward to discussing books with you. 😊
Beata wrote: "Thank you for the invite, Margo, and for answering my question :) Very kind! Happy Reading!"Thanks, Beata! Looking forward to reading more of your reviews 😃
Thank you for the invite, Margo, and for answering my question :) Very kind! Happy Reading!
Booktastically wrote: "Hello! I am so happy to have received your friend request, and thank you so much for complimenting my review! You seem like the nicest human ever, so I hope we can interact!"Booktastically Amazing - thanks for accepting the request! I look forward to reading more of your reviews :)
Hello! I am so happy to have received your friend request, and thank you so much for complimenting my review! You seem like the nicest human ever, so I hope we can interact!
Thanks, Pam 💚 - yes, I'd like to, maybe for Christmas 2026! I'm working on a historical fiction story at the moment - and looking forward to writing something more lighthearted again after that.