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Julie Stielstra

Reader – Writer – Librarian

  • You found me.
  • My Writing
    • The Wasp Queen – February 2023
    • Scratched – September 2022
    • Opulence, Kansas – June 2020
    • Protected Contact and Other Stories – 2017
    • Pilgrim – 2016
    • Anthologies / Collections
  • Little Fox Books
    • The Wasp Queen
    • The Far Side of Redemption: Collected Stories
    • Scratched
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Animals / Birds / Nature, Book Reviews / Goodreads

Birds and Us – Tim Birkhead

October 30, 2022October 30, 2022 by jstielstra

What a delightful read! This bird nerd was enchanted from the opening chapter describing a […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Fiction, Francophilia, World War I

The Lost Domain – Alain-Fournier

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 by jstielstra

Started strong, but went out with a whimper. Elegiac, romantic (decidedly not in the Harlequin […]

Fiction, Kansas, Writing - Mine and Other People's

J. Donald and Bertha Coffin Memorial Award for Opulence, Kansas

October 24, 2022February 3, 2023 by jstielstra

I am delighted to announce that the Kansas Authors Club has bestowed its 2022 J. […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads, Fiction, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Mourning Hilary Mantel

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 by jstielstra

My husband woke me up at 6 AM to tell me that Hilary Mantel is dead. She […]

Fiction, Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Scratched – giveaway!

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022 by jstielstra

For all you LibraryThing readers-n-reviewers (and for all you Goodreads readers-n-reviewers who should be on […]

Horses, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Available now – new youth novel!

August 12, 2022August 23, 2022 by jstielstra

The color, the power, the excitement, and the beauty of horse-racing happens between the starting […]

Book Reviews / Goodreads

Every Good Boy Does Fine – Jeremy Denk

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 by jstielstra

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk My […]

Animals / Birds / Nature, Art / Art History, Dogs, Francophilia, Horses

Art is a Tyrant – Catherine Hewitt

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 by jstielstra

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt My rating: […]

19th Century Literature, Health / Medicine / Health Care, Russian Literature, Writing - Mine and Other People's

Thanks to Anton and Semezdin…

May 14, 2022May 14, 2022 by jstielstra

In Semezdin Mehmedinovic’s beautiful and poignant book My Heart (see my full review here), he […]

Uncategorized

In Love – by Amy Bloom

April 10, 2022April 10, 2022 by jstielstra

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom My rating: 4 of […]

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