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Suzanne’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Suzanne’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Suzanne Kamata’s Followers (300)
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Suzanne Kamata
Goodreads Author
Born
in Grand Haven, The United States
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Influences
Marguerite Duras, Anne Beattie, Lorrie Moore
Member Since
September 2007
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Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible
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2013
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The Mermaids of Lake Michigan
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2017
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Indigo Girl
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2019
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Losing Kei
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2008
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7 editions
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The Baseball Widow
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Screaming Divas
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2011
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Pop Flies, Robo-Pets, and Other Disasters
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2020
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8 editions
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Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair
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Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs
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2008
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Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering
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2009
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Rupi Kaur and Me at The Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet
[image error]Earlier this year I was invited to participate in the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet to help launch The Best Asian Short Stories 2017 anthology published by Kitaab International in Singapore. I would be appearing along with the publisher, Zafar Anjum; the editor, Monideepa Sahu, who lives in India; and Wan Phing Lim, a young writer from Malaysia who had contributed “Snake Bridge Tem
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Cursed Daughters
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| I really enjoyed this unusual short novel about a young wife struggling with the demands of motherhood. She strives to do her best, giving up her career as a photographer, believing that everything she does will affect the rest of her children's live ...more | |
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| Did you binge-watch "The Chair?" Are you an aspiring, active, or outgoing academic? Then this book is for. Far from being a stuffy academic tome, these essays by university educators in the field (way off in the yonder field) are engaging and even en ...more | |
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| I loved the setting, the adventurous main character, Julia, and the story, which was full of action, intrigue, and romance, with a dash of social justice and environmental activism. A wonderful book! | |
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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A Million More Pages:
Summertime Mountaineering
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| A Million More Pages: Award Winners | 53 | 79 | Jun 07, 2019 08:26AM | |
| Around the World ...: Wanda' USA Circumnavigation | 20 | 168 | Oct 19, 2019 07:56AM | |
| A Million More Pages: What to Read in 2019 | 130 | 305 | Dec 30, 2019 03:53PM | |
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| Play Book Tag: * Poll Ballot Tally -- Announcements and Reporting | 5521 | 184 | Dec 31, 2020 04:35PM |
“Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.”
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“If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write. ”
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“Being a doctor he didn't want for choices, but also being a doctor he understood the fragility of bone and sinew that encompassed the even more fragile organ of the heart. He envisioned Therese's as being wound in intricate, tight, vinelike veins that he would slowly make sense of and unravel.”
― Where the Dog Star Never Glows
― Where the Dog Star Never Glows
“If I had known what it meant to love, I wouldn't have had children, because once we love, we love forever, like Uncle Two's wife, Step-aunt Two, who can't stop loving her gambler son, the son who is burning up the family fortune like a pyromaniac.”
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I guess it is a small world! Chances are I know your cousins, Big Rapids isn't very large. Where are you residing these days?
Hi Suzanne. Thanks for adding me as a friend. When I picked up Love You to Pieces and added it to my list, I noted all the great books you have on your list. Having lived in Japan from 1986-89, I'm always on the hunt for great literature about Japan or Asia, and you're a great resource! I'm also enjoying your blog (and I also love Vicki Forman's writing as well).Cheers!
Marie
Suzanne, I've added The Broken Bridge, Losing Kei and your other book Love You to Pieces to my to-read list.
