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Talking 'bout books

So many good books. Here are some mini-reviews of some I have loved.

http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com/2013/05/funny-and-painful-winger-is-winner.html

http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com/2012/05/facing-monster-within.html

http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com/2012/10/in-which-i-gush-book-love.html

http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com/2012/04/holy-con-man.html

http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com/2012/04/novel-of-poetic-beauty.html

http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-truth-about-living-and-dying.html

http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com/2011/02/lets-hear-it-for-guys.html

http://triciajobrien.blogspot.com/2011/10/ive-been-stolen-by-water-horses.html

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Why I love fantasy

William Alexander, quoted Ursula Le Guin in accepting the National Book Award for his fantasy novel, Goblin Secrets: "The literature of the imagination is important because it gives us a world large enough to contain alternatives, and it gives us hope."

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I love stories--writing them, reading them, talking about them. So I'm here to do that and meet people who like the same thing. My official name is Patricia J. O'Brien. On this blog I'm Tricia. I used to be a features writer for a daily newspaper (aka Pat), so I know how to do an interview and where to stick a semicolon.



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