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We are living and breathing stories, shaped by our experiences.Ī couple of days later my daughter said, ‘Have you met Raymond yet?’ Life experience has taught me that everybody has a reason for they way they behave. Once I began reading, it was obvious that Eleanor Oliphant was not completely fine, and from that moment, I knew I was in for a treat. It’s a natural assumption, based on predicting a story by the cover. ‘Thanks,’ I said, and turned the book over this way and that, checking out the cover design. Thankfully, my daughter came to the rescue with a book she had just finished, ‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’. ![]() Panic set in when I realised I didn’t have a novel to read before bed. 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These notes were created during my reading process to aid my own understanding and not written for the purpose of instruction. My preferred way of engaging with books is reconstruction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her favorite time of year is when several are blooming. Though she doesn't have time for jewelry as much as she used to, Faith makes, wears, and sometimes gives away her jewelry as promo items to fans and as prizes in contests. Croix, the Rogue Mage, and the main character of BloodStone, written by her pen name, Gwen Hunter. Jewelry-making was the occupation of two of her characters: Thorn St. Research led to her life’s passions – jewelry making, orchids, Japanese maples, bones, travel, white-water kayaking, and writing. Occasionally, she remembers to turn on Roomba (that she named Duma$$ because it fell down the stairs once.)įaith researches in great detail, and tries most everything her characters do. She does still make cold cereal and sandwiches. She gave up cooking for lent one year and the oven hasn’t been turned on since. Croix, a stone mage in a post-apocalyptic alternate reality.įaith writes full-time, tries to keep house, and is a workaholic. Her Rogue Mage novels-Bloodring, Seraphs, Host, and the RPG Rogue Mage-feature Thorn St. The Soulwood series is a dark-urban fantasy / paranormal police procedural /para-thriller series featuring Nell Nicholson Ingram, an earth magic user and Special gent of PsyLED. Jane is a full blooded Cherokee skinwalker and hunter of rogue-vampires in a world of weres, witches, vampires, and other supernats. Faith Hunter's Junkyard Cats novella series is available in Audible and eBook at this time.įaith's Jane Yellowrock series is a dark urban fantasy. ![]() |