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Golda Fried

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Toronto, Canada

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Literature & Fiction

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Charles Bukowski, Hal Ashby, Tennessee Williams

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Golda Fried is the author of the coming of age novel about a girl's first year away from home at McGill University "Nellcott is My Darling" that was nominated for a Governor General's Award in Canada in 2005 and is now in development. Follow here on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NellcottisMy... or here on Twitter: @NellcottMovie. Read film reviews of her favorite movies at www.residuefilmreviews.blogspot.com and writes about writing at www.ificouldwritetoday.blogspot.com. ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 183 ratings · 21 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Nellcott Is My Darling 3.69 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine by Emma Healey (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Richard Rosenbaum (Goodreads Author), Ian Rogers (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkness Then a Blown Kiss 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Portable Conundrum by Andy Brown (Editor), Dana Bath, Marc Bell (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Montréal mélodie by Golda Fried (Goodreads Author), Sophie Campbell (translator) 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sudden Fictions: The Moosehead Anthology VI by Grant Loewen, R.E.N. Allen (Editor), Robert E. Allen 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matrix 46: Writing Worth Reading (Fall 1995) by Robert Allen (Editor), Linda Ghan (Editor), Mark Abley (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I Got Interviewed by A Book Lover's Playlist

This happened in January but work is keeping me pretty distracted....

Kayleigh from A Book Lover's Playlist blog interviewed me and came up with a playlist for my book.

http://abookloversplaylist.blogspot.com/2014/01/nellcott-is-my-darling-by-golda-fried.html

Kayleigh's soundtrack for Nellcott:

Nellcott Is My Darling Playlist:
Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega
Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor
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Golda rated a book it was amazing Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir by Martha Wainwright	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is so good. I'm really impressed: how she makes observations, flashes forwards and backwards in time, and is beautifully poetic. Take the ending of the Glastonbury Music Festival chapter (chapter 8): "It had been a famously muddy Glastonbury, and ...more
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“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
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― Charles Bukowski

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