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Lauren’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Lauren’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Gallery of Unfinished Girls
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Whew!
Thank you to everyone who came out to say hello at one of my launch events, and at Decatur Book Festival and Dragon*Con over the weekend. With four panels / events over four days, it was quite a whirlwind, but I enjoyed every minute of it. It was great to see old friends and meet new readers.
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“A sheen of tiny drops, all of them trapped in the glow of the stoplight and reflecting red onto my hands and face and neck. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful. There's no one around to see it, but maybe that's okay.”
― The Gallery of Unfinished Girls
― The Gallery of Unfinished Girls
“I’m quick and smooth—like scribbling with a brand-new roller-ball pen. Like Angela’s hands across the piano. Like Victoria in the Gershwin show, making effortless leaps across the stage and falling into a pirouette. There’s a move in modern dance called the downward spiral—Vic is always trying to perfect hers. Maybe this is my downward spiral, careening yet controlled. When art is like this, when the work is so hard and so easy at the same time, I feel like I’m breaking all the rules of the universe. It’s thrilling. It’s terrifying. I may as well be falling through the floor, down to the beach and the gulf, straight down to the water, all the while managing to bring this painting to life.”
― The Gallery of Unfinished Girls
― The Gallery of Unfinished Girls
“I missed the future. Obviously I knew even before his recurrence that I'd never grow old with Augustus Waters. But thinking about Lidewij and her boyfriend, I felt robbed. I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so far up that you can't make out the waves or any boats, so that the ocean is a great and endless monolith. I could imagine it. I could remember it. But I couldn't see it again, and it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“If everyone else in the room is working on their next pitch, then fixating on the previous one puts you a step behind. This approach also applies to an overall career where it's better to focus on the next opportunity rather than ruminate on the missed chances and setbacks.”
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“Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind.”
― Brown Girl Dreaming
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