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Elizabeth Gonzalez James

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Fiction, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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Elizabeth is the author of MONA AT SEA, FIVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT PETER SELLERS, and THE BULLET SWALLOWER. Originally from South Texas, Elizabeth currently lives with her family in Massachusetts.

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Average rating: 3.78 · 11,002 ratings · 2,045 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Bullet Swallower 3.79 avg rating — 10,294 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mona at Sea 3.65 avg rating — 696 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Conversations About Peter Sellers: Hybrid Play/Essay 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tishman Review: April 2018 by Willa Carroll, Jessica Barksdale, Chaun Ballard (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Tragabalas by Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Goodreads Author), Pilar de la Peña Minguell (Goodreads Author) (translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Idaho Review (Number 18) by Mitch Wieland (Editor), Bill Carman (Illustrator), Emily Ruskovich (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Known World

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The Complete Stories

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Elizabeth wants to read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elizabeth rated a book really liked it The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly: Life Wisdom from Someone Who Will (Probably) Die Before You by Margareta Magnusson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Elizabeth rated a book really liked it Hunger by Knut Hamsun	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I couldn’t track the motivation for the narrator’s moral inflexibility at the cost of his own tremendous discomfort, and that made me like the novel less.
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“How inadequate was love when it couldn’t stop suffering?”
― Elizabeth Gonzalez James, The Bullet Swallower

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“Kindness is its own reward,” she said, “but cruelty is a self-inflicted wound.”
― Elizabeth Gonzalez James, The Bullet Swallower

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“Death had been the process of splitting apart, and so life must be the process of being made whole.”
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What shall we read in November, 2024? Books published after 1990

More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson

9 votes 25.0%

Picking Over the Bones, by Judith Ireland

8 votes 22.2%

The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

8 votes 22.2%

Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

4 votes 11.1%

How Lucky, by Will Leitch

4 votes 11.1%

Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood, by Horton Foote

3 votes 8.3%

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“Dave Matthews is what would happen if beer pong became a person.”
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“Truly my story is the saddest of them all.”
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“...your job is just what you do. It’s not who you are.”
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“Art has to be witnessed to be finished.”
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