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Deb’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Deb’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Deb Spera’s Followers (974)
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Deb Spera
Goodreads Author
Born
in Louisville, Ky., The United States
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Influences
Wendell Berry, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stegner, Pau
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Member Since
May 2018
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Call Your Daughter Home
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2018
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Le Chant de nos filles
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LE CHANT DE NOS FILLES - 2 VOLUMES
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Gratitude
It's a daunting thing to publish a novel. I wasn't sure what to expect. I had high hopes and low expectations, I've found life works better for me this way. What I've learned is that trying any creative venture offers many gifts along the way. This book is no exception The gifts this book has given me are numerous: new friends, connection with family I'd not had before, travel, readers who are tho
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| This is not the sort of book I generally gravitate toward, but the recommendation of friends made me pick it up. First and foremost, the writing is beautiful. It's almost delicate. So honest and simple and heartbreaking. She does not villainize her e ...more | |
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| DNF I struggled with this book. There is so much pontificating among the characters that I didn't care about any of them. The setup was endless, and the slow burn was glacial. I rarely give up but after getting halfway through, I gave up. This one wa ...more | |
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| DNF I struggled with this book. There is so much pontificating among the characters that I didn't care about any of them. The setup was endless, and the slow burn was glacial. I rarely give up but after getting halfway through, I gave up. This one wa ...more | |
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| I loved this book. Set against the backdrop of a war-torn Lebanon, Raja the Gullible takes his mother in to live with him. Both are outspoken and bicker loudly, but there is an undeniable love for one another. Raja is gay and absolutely hilarious. Hi ...more | |
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This slim novella, or fable, is as clean and precise as Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." There is nothing "extra" in this story. I loved it. ...more |
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For me, the voice of Sybil in this book reminded me of Olive Kittridge, dry, funny, and sad. I never imagined that a book could be wholly comprised of letters and still work, and yet, here we are. The author did an amazing job with the structure of t ...more |
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“Children are such a wave, the birthing and caring and rearing. When you’re in the throes it all seems interminable. Then, whoosh, it’s over. I don’t know why I was surprised when the children grew up, but I was. I thought, in their youth, it would last forever. Now I see that it was my youth, not theirs that was speaking. The past is now and now and now.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“It’s easier to kill a man than a gator, but it takes the same kind of wait. You got to watch for the weakness, and take your shot to the back of the head.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
“No. None of us get what we deserve. We make the best of what we got.”
― Call Your Daughter Home
― Call Your Daughter Home
Polls
What shall we read in September, 2019? - Books published Post-1980
68 total votes
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Reading Glasses -...: Ep 104 - Empty Planets, Trains and Swamps and Deb Spera! | 2 | 45 | Jun 15, 2019 09:09AM | |
| Busy as a Bee Books: 06/11/19: Book News | 5 | 8 | Jun 17, 2019 12:10PM | |
| The Lost Challenges: June 2019 Scattergories | 70 | 53 | Jul 02, 2019 11:59AM | |
On the Southern L...:
Now accepting nominations for our September, 2019, Group Reads
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The Reading For P...:
Nominations for August 2019 Fiction Group Read Selections
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45 | 48 | Aug 03, 2019 10:43AM |
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