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Teresa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Teresa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Teresa Tumminello Brader’s Followers (1,034)
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Teresa Tumminello Brader
Goodreads Author
Born
in New Orleans, The United States
Website
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Member Since
October 2007
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Letting in Air and Light
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From the Porch Swing - memories of our grandparents
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2010
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Coming Home: A 2010 Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology
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2010
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Secret Keepers
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2025
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The Body Electric
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2013
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You Don't Say: Stories in the Second-Person
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2012
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The Mom Egg 10
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2012
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Families: The Frontline of Pluralism
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2008
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hoi polloi III: A Literary Journal for the Rest of Us
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2009
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Scenes from the 2025 Louisiana Book Fest
Below: Moderating a panel on memoir (At the Crossroads of Violence & Voice) with (l to r), Bernice L. McFadden, Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, and Lauren Rhoades
Above: A.E. Rooks, holding up my short-story collection SECRET KEEPERS, as she moderates a short-story panel (Between Confession and Concealment) with Jennifer Anne Moses, Daren Dean, and me.
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Teresa’s Recent Updates
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Blaine's status update
Blaine
is 53% done with Mr. Bridge: I wonder what it was like for Connell to inhabit the minds of these characters for 15 years, with their prejudices and limitations, and to portray them so thoroughly and deeply.
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Jennifer wrote: "I like when naive and propulsive come together, Teresa, (thinking of Hurricane Girl), sorry this wasn't a better read for you. I've y
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is starting Jane Austen at Home: “Jane shows how hard it is to find a true home, a place of safety where you can be understood and loved. She is uniquely sensitive to a particular home’s happiness – or unhappiness.”
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is 17% done with Life On The Mississippi: "The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.…[continued below]
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is on page 475 of 941 of Black Water 2: The rooster came to the pansy bed so sereneWhat a joy he felt to be of the world of wordless creatures where crowing or whirring of wings or the brush of legs together said everything, said praise, we live. To be of the grassy world where things blow and bend and rustle; of the insect world so close to it that it was known when an ant hauled an imperceptible grain of sand from its tiny cave.
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Teresa
rated a book really liked it
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| I bought this little book because I read one of Daniels’s poems beforehand and because I've visited Selma. I was immediately drawn to his voice: calm and gentle; while also being forceful, defiant, and adamant about injustice, death, joy, and beauty. ...more | |
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Cecily wrote: "The God of Small Things is an interesting (and, to me, surprising) link!"
I'm glad I alluded to why I made the connection, or I would've ...more " |
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| Muia has (re)created a world in her historical novel-of- stories that lives on the page and in the reader’s mind. The opening tale (seeming as if it’s been pulled from ancient lore) is of a young pearl diver considered to be the (adopted) son of a pr ...more | |
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| I haven't read any of Kevin Wilson's writing -- he's the editor of this collection, not the author -- but these stories show his penchant for psychologically complex stories, at least in his reading, since I can't speak to his writing. (Even the stor ...more | |
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| I understand this book perfectly – or at least pretty darn close to perfectly -- as my daily life too is in a state of suspension with time basically meaningless. | |
“... I was too young to realize that a physical absence can be felt.”
― Letting in Air and Light
― Letting in Air and Light
“the difficulty of accommodating an erratic family member while protecting young children, which is how my mother would have viewed it – on the real possibilty that Mama brought us to our grandparents’ home only if she knew Bill wouldn’t be there. ” (117)”
― Letting in Air and Light
― Letting in Air and Light
Polls
What shall we read in October, 2025? Books published after 1990.
Miss Jane, by Brad Watson
51 total votes
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“Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.”
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“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
“I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
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“In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
― The Black Riders and Other Lines
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
― The Black Riders and Other Lines
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I like your new profile photo also, though I was thrown off stride for a moment when I first saw it. You look very serious - professorial? querying?
I like your new avatar! And great news about your forthcoming book, congratulations! 🎉 🎈🎈
Thank you, Teresa, for accepting a friend request from a total unknown. I appreciate the opportunity to see what you're reading and follow the invariably interesting discussions sparked by your reviews. Happy reading!
Thanks for accepting my friend request Teresa. I'm looking forward to future book interactions and discussions.
Hey Teresa: Love the new photo! Glad to see a fellow sister going silver! Healthier for you and more real. Women should be allowed to be gray, too! ;-)
I really like your new close-up photo. You seem to have grown younger!
Hi , Teresa ! Thanks to our mutual friends I had a chance to follow your reviews and updates but much better is to be friends . So , thank you very much for adding me and looking forward to future bookish interactions . Cheers .
Thank you for accepting my friend invite, Teresa. I look forward to more discussions. :-)
Thanks for accepting Teresa. Looking forward to having bookish convos with you :)
Thanks for befriending, Teresa. I am looking forward to some wonderful bookish exchanges with you.
Thank you for the add Teresa! Your reviews are some of the best I've read here.
thank you for the friend request Teresa - I have been enjoying reading your reviews and comments
Thank you Teresa for accepting my Friends request. I look forward to seeing your comments and reviews.
Thank you so much for the friend request, Teresa. I've been following your reviews for a while -- it's good to make it official!
Teresa: Thanks SO much for coming to my reading! It was wonderful to meet you, and I really appreciate your support. How much fun this goodreads thing is, no? Keep in touch.
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