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S.M.’s 2023 Year in Books
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S.M. Stevens
Goodreads Author
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The United States
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Influences
Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, Kristin Hannah
Member Since
May 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/smstevens
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: A Novel
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2019
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5 editions
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The Wallace House of Pain
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2022
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4 editions
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Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers (Bit Players, #1)
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2011
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2 editions
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Bit Players, Bullies and Righteous Rebels
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2012
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2 editions
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Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
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2014
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2 editions
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Beautiful & Terrible Things
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Shannon's Odyssey
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Beautiful and Terrible Things: A Novel
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The Gold Spinners Secret
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The big book of AI Generated Art: A.I. can be scary, but is that a good scary? not always
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Official Trailer: Beautiful and Terrible Things
Trailers aren’t just for movies anymore…
I’m very excited to share with you the official trailer for my forthcoming novel, Beautiful and Terrible Things:
Beautiful and Terrible Things comes out on July 18th.
I’ll be sharing advance reviews from trade publications and readers in the coming months, as well as special materials related to the book.
ScreenshotThe post Official Trailer: Beautiful and Terr
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Oh, how I wish people who rate a book would take 30 seconds to also write a sentence about why they chose that rating! Especially if the rating is poor. Just imagine your teacher handing you back a paper with a low grade but refusing to tell you why
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Forks & Knives: A Marriage at the Crossroads of Addiction and Codependency
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| This is a searingly honest and acutely insightful deep dive into alcoholism, recovery and codependency. The Prologue alone had me hooked with its strong voice, summary of very, very human concerns and emotions, and even a touch of humor woven into th ...more | |
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| I absolutely loved this book about revenge, relationships and misguided love. The suspenseful plot about a jilted woman stealing her lover’s baby is binge-worthy—I read it in two days. We know from the start who the abductor is, so the fact that the ...more | |
"S.M. Stevens’ Horseshoes and Hand Grenades is a realistic, engrossing story about a difficult subject, the emotional trauma of sexual abuse. Her depiction of two women, the first who experienced family trauma, while the second encounters a workplace "
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| Although told in chapters that skip around the ages, this multi-generational family saga starts with Pearlie, a poor Jamaican girl who is reviled by her family and her community for her dark skin. Each successive generation of mothers struggles to im ...more | |
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Trigger warning: Be aware that violence against trans people is depicted in this book. This intriguing novel delves into the impacts on a family when the father leaves completely unexpectedly and begins transitioning his gender to female. But the real ...more |
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| I loved this fast-paced environmental thriller that raises ethical questions about our modern food supply. Even though we suspect and then learn early on who the villain is, Seyler keeps the suspense going throughout as we watch our heroes inch close ...more | |
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It’s been a while since I got so caught up in a book that I felt compelled to read it while I ate my lunch, but that’s what happened with Captives. The mystery unraveled by the private detectives Hadley, Vince and Eddie was compelling and I fairly ra ...more |
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| The Roof Above is at its heart a love story, although who truly loves whom isn’t always apparent to the main characters! It also has elements of a coming-of-age story as young Kelly, fresh out of college, tries to figure out how much she should let l ...more | |
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Ouch. Oof. Owie. Ahhh. Woo. That one hurt a little bit. Never had a good conversation with my dad. Always all of em gotta be a little fucked up." |
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“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.”
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“When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.”
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“This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He was going to be naked in the shower on the other side of my bedroom wall. And I was going to be naked in the shower with him in my house.”
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
“When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.”
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“This was awkward to infinity. Alex living here would change my entire routine. I was sharing a bathroom with my boyfriend. How scary was that? I had tampons and pads and everything in there. He was going to be naked in the shower on the other side of my bedroom wall. And I was going to be naked in the shower with him in my house.”
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
― Bit Players, Bird Girls and Fake Break-Ups
“When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.”
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“The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.”
― Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers
― Bit Players, Has-Been Actors and Other Posers
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