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R.L. lives in the Atlanta area with her husband, son, and two dogs. After going to law school at American University, Washington College of Law, she settled back in the state in which she grew up but only after she fell in love with D.C. She worked in the Senate during the impeachment trial and the Department of Justice.

She loves reading all sorts of books and rarely has free time.

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Average rating: 4.18 · 3,795 ratings · 890 reviews · 14 distinct works

	By a Thread (By a Thread, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 897 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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
	Tension (By a Thread, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Sunshine & Whiskey (Drinking, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Razorblade Kisses 4.31 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2014 — 4 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
	Seamless (By a Thread, #3) 4.33 avg rating — 417 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Mending (By a Thread, #3.5) 4.36 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2014	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
	Quiet Lies 3.97 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Heart in Wire (By a Thread, #4) 4.27 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Manbuns & Martinis (Drinking #1.5) 4.04 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2016 — 4 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
	Bleed The Water Red 4.25 avg rating — 67 ratings — 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

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Series by R.L. Griffin

By a Thread (4 books)
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Drinking (2 books)
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Born of Blood and Ash (Flesh and Fire, #4)

by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Goodreads Author)

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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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“I’m going to fight. I’m going to fight for you. You need to remember that.”
― R.L. Griffin, Seamless

tags: fighting-for-love

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“Why keep putting yourself back together if you’re just going to keep breaking apart?”
― R.L. Griffin, Seamless

tags: falling-apart

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“She was held together by a thread. Not even a strong fishing wire, but the kind of thread that could fray and break in the wind. A thread that could unravel at any moment, scattering and smashing all the pieces of her that she as trying desperately to keep together.”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

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Polls

What do you want to be our contemporary group read for September?

Flat-Out Love by Jessica Park

35 votes, 22.4%

Fear of Falling by S.L. Jennings

29 votes, 18.6%

Unravel Me by Kendall Ryan

21 votes, 13.5%

Beautiful Broken Rules by Kimberly Lauren

17 votes, 10.9%

Sweet Thing by Renee Carlino

13 votes, 8.3%

From Ashes by Molly McAdams

12 votes, 7.7%

Breaking the Reins by Juliana Haygert

12 votes, 7.7%

Coming Back to You by Devon Youngblood

10 votes, 6.4%

Not at First by Phalla S. Rios

3 votes, 1.9%

By A Thread by R.L. Griffin

2 votes, 1.3%

Pregame by Taylor Wade

2 votes, 1.3%

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R.L.’s Quotes

“Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.”
― John Green

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“Time makes things tolerable. Time gives you perspective on events that shake your world to the core. Time allows you to move forward. But time doesn’t change the pain that sits in your gut.”
― R.L. Griffin, By a Thread

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“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-to-hemingway, writing-drinking

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“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

tags: healing, pain, remembrance, scars, time

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway