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R.B.’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at R.B.’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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R.B. O'Brien
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
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Influences
E.E. Cummings, Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin, Kate Chopin, Pauline Reage
Member Since
November 2014
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Rose's Dark Contract (Thorne #1)
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2016
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Play Only For Me
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Edge of Torment
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Rose's Dark Secret (Thorne #2)
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Imogen
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2019
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5 editions
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Rose's Dark Awakening (Thorne #3)
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Thorne The Complete Series (Thorne #1-3)
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Beyond the Rain
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Temptation (Natalie's Edge #1)
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2015
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2 editions
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Reindeer Games
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"Comparison is the thief of joy.”
Theodore Roosevelt said, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” What say you? Was he right? Do people who expend loads of energy comparing themselves to others suffer more? Will it lead, most always, to self doubt? Inferiority? Joylessness, as the quote suggest?I think it’s human nature to do such a thing. How do we not? How do we get to a place where we accept who we are Read more of this blog post »
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Too Far-Fetched I wanted to love it. It was a quick read. Definitely wanted to know what happened, but too many characters spoke the same way, and I figured it out way too soon. But no spoilers here! If I read “at the end of the day” by one more chara ...more |
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Fun Read A page turner for sure but a bit repetitive in places, unnecessarily. Reading level is low. No thinking needed. Good for a quick beach read to try to “figure things out” snd pass the time. And yet, a bit far-fetched though. I enjoyed it for w ...more |
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“Snow is...a beautiful reminder of life and all its quirks. It makes me pause. Think. Stay still. Even my mind takes the hint. It makes me feel giddy. Like a kid. I bring my hot cocoa to the window and simply sit and reminisce...It brings me back to days of school cancellations and snow igloos and King of the Mountain games in my childhood neighborhood...That for this one moment in time, I’m not an adult with all the headaches that can accompany that responsibility, but instead, I’m still the girl in pigtails with the handmade hat and mittens, just waiting to build her next snowman.”
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“And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I write to rewrite the moments I’ve lived over in a way that makes more sense to me. I write the moments to heal. I write the moments I hope never happen. And I write the moments I hope will happen.”
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“Pink reminds me of my love for dance. My youth. The innocence of being young. Tutus. Strawberry frosting on a vanilla cake (my favorite). And lipstick. I love lipstick. It also reminds me that I should take pride in my feminine traits, in being a woman. There is nothing remotely wrong with enjoying femininity. Curves. Hips. Lips. Empathy. Vulnerability. Sensuality. Patience. Intuition.”
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“Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowstorm can be romantic. Lovers in love but giving that up can also be romantic. There is something aesthetically romantic in beauty itself. And beauty can even be pain. Therefore, pain is romantic, especially when the sufferer does so for love.”
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“To me the erotic is the relationship that organically manifests itself between people finding and exploring love. It is the universality of accepting the darkness that makes up human nature, the darkness I find so romantic within that dance, the inevitable opening up that lets in the light of sensuality between two human beings becoming one together without the confines of preconceived morality. In short, an exploration of all the facets of both the subconscious and conscious of light and dark. “Emotional connectedness.”
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“since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
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who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
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“Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be controlled in the bedroom and find great satisfaction and freedom with it. That is the most anti-feminist statement I have ever heard. Feminism is all about letting women be who THEY want to be. Not how YOU want them to be...I am both a feminist AND a submissive in my sexual fantasies and reality. You are the one who is anti-feminist who tells me I can’t be.”
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“It was great but intense to try to go back into a character’s mind, a mind that is filled with self-loathing and a mind that is male. It is fun to try to psychoanalyze why a character acts and feels the way he/she does, and doing it as a different gender lends itself to many challenges. My desire to delve into the male psyche comes from many years of being drawn to men that seem to have a darker side. But there is also light in them, and it is that duality and intensity that makes me feel alive. Thorne is very much that man as is my first male protagonist, Michael, from the Natalie’s Edge series. Each man, while plagued with a dark past and demons, has this glorious light within them, fighting noble causes. I picture them as true anti-heroes, like the likes of Batman, the Dark Knight.”
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Thanks for the friend invite R.B. I look forward to chatting books with you.
Thank you for your friendship here on Goodreads as I venture into this world of writing! I hope you will read my debut erotic novel and leave me a revew!
