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Melissa’s 2023 Year in Books
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Melissa McShane
Goodreads Author
Born
in Portland, Oregon, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
July 2008
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/melissamcshane
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Burning Bright (The Extraordinaries, #1)
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2016
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9 editions
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Servant of the Crown (The Crown of Tremontane, #1)
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2015
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9 editions
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The Book of Secrets (The Last Oracle, #1)
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2018
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8 editions
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The Book of Peril (The Last Oracle, #2)
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2018
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8 editions
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The Book of Mayhem (The Last Oracle, #3)
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2019
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4 editions
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Wondering Sight (The Extraordinaries, #2)
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2017
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10 editions
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Rider of the Crown (The Crown of Tremontane, #2)
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2015
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3 editions
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The Book of Lies (The Last Oracle, #4)
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2019
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2 editions
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The Book of Betrayal (The Last Oracle, #5)
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2019
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2 editions
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Agent of the Crown (The Crown of Tremontane, #3)
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2016
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3 editions
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My 2019 Reading Favorites
I read 79 books in 2019, which is lower than last year. Considering that I read a lot of my own books (either in editing or in preparing to write something new in a series) that number is actually more like 67. In looking at my spreadsheet where I track my reading, I see long weeks where I didn’t read anything at all. That’s the tradeoff for me as a writer–either I’m reading or I’m writing, but I’
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Melissa’s Recent Updates
"This was another Book Club pick and is the sort of thing I likely would have never read otherwise. I found it to be enjoyable, overall, although the middle seemed to drag on for much longer than I would have liked (it never got bad enough for me to c"
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"What if the a-holes from Gatsby were college students and we knew more about their lives? They would be like this. I loved reading this, but didn’t like the characters, particularly (I found the narrator, Richard, especially problematic, sorta like N"
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"This is an interesting take on a very slim niche (isekai with dungeon core). It's a portal fantasy where an engineer from our world dies in such a way as to give him options to try something else and isn't tempted until "be a dungeon" shows up. He si"
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Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (Pern, #7):
"Of the boxed set of Dragonriders of Pern books that I got for Christmas when I was in high school, this one was solidly my favorite. So sad! So good! Also, the descriptions of her gowns, and everyone's clothes, were really rich in this one and to thi"
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| Re-read 6/28/24: The company my husband works for in India had this book/series at its heart when it was founded, and the new office space is going to be partly themed around it--the cafe will be called Milliways, for example. Some of us at the offic ...more | |
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This is not Schmidt's finest work (that would be, in my opinion, Okay for Now). But it's my new favorite Schmidt book. This was probably inevitable. The structure--young Hercules Beal is assigned by his middle-grade English teacher the project of perf ...more |
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| This is maybe closer to 4.5, but there was a moment where I thought "this is a seriously good depiction of two people falling in love" so I'm giving it all five stars. I have had this book on my shelf for a while now, and meant to get to it eventuall ...more | |
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| I read this on the recommendation of a friend who had also read it and wanted to know how closely my reactions matched hers (or not). I had only the vaguest notion of what the Enneagram was, and after taking more than one test (the first one was one ...more | |
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Melissa McShane
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Suzannah Rowntree’s status
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The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died
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Suzannah Rowntree wrote: "Yes! The book emphasised that Christianity is harder to lose when it becomes thoroughly nativised. I would love to visit Ind
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Wow, does this take me back. I was obsessed with this series as a teen.
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“it’s because you’re a different person, every time you re-read a book, and you learn things your earlier self wouldn’t have noticed or wouldn’t have cared about. Or sometimes it’s just because the story is an old favorite, and it’s a comforting reminder of good things.”
― Servant of the Crown
― Servant of the Crown
“It gives me pleasure to walk through a room full of books and know that one of them might be the next story I fall in love with.”
― Servant of the Crown
― Servant of the Crown
“My people believe bathing weakens you,” Gerrard said. “But my people are well known to be uncivilized.” “Your people don’t believe in drinking coffee. That’s a fair definition of uncivilized.”
― Emissary
― Emissary
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“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr. Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It's like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting "Cathy" and banging your head against a tree.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
― Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”
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“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.”
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“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Sourcery
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Sourcery
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Thanks for adding me Melissa. Happy reading to you :)
