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Claudia Turner

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in San Antonio, Texas, The United States
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Claudia Turner has a BA in Literature and Film from the University of Oregon and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. She currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains with her two dogs and daughter, and is working on her third book.

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Claudia Turner My book Notes On a Hospitalized Pregnant Woman would make a great movie. Who doesn’t want to watch a restless hormonal pregnant woman on bed-rest rebe…moreMy book Notes On a Hospitalized Pregnant Woman would make a great movie. Who doesn’t want to watch a restless hormonal pregnant woman on bed-rest rebelliously wander the hospital halls for two months simultaneously making baby name lists and having an existential crisis? I would love to see Emma Stone play this role. She’s the right age for the main character and is a brilliant actor with the right amount of depth and edge. (less)
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I wrote a total of four post-its worth of quotes from this that I slapped on my fridge so I figure it’s worth at least four stars. I would have liked a little more character development but I really enjoyed the story (I had a short story in HS with a ...more
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ADHD Is Awesome by Penn Holderness
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Long live all the witches who have survived possessive, abusive men.
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Meh. This is Temu Dark Academia for Performative Buzzword Analytics Majors. As an English lit major and a therapist who still reads every day (imagine in 2026!), I found Babel to be a tedious, preachy, algorithmic focus-grouped lecture masquerading a ...more
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Steve  Martin
“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
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Haruki Murakami
“Here's what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can't seem to do it. They just don't get it. Of course, the problem could be that I'm not explaining it very well, but I think it's because they're not listening very well. They pretend to be listening, but they're not, really. So I get worked up sometimes, and I do some crazy things.”
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Rainer Maria Rilke
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
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“The only journey is the one within.”
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“An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.”
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Claudia Turner Ashley wrote: "Happy Easter Claudia!"

This is so old but Happy Easter and Happy May and Happy summer back! :)


Ashley Happy Easter Claudia!


Claudia Turner Comment to myself: I would like to get paid to read. How can I go about doing that? I have an English degree. That should be a start. I could work in a publishing house, except I don't really want to edit, and I don't want to advertise. I naturally like to critique work but just as I see fit, otherwise, I would prefer to drink coffee and read books. Someone can pay me. I'd like a secretary. Is this unrealistic?


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