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Lark Benobi

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I'm a big reader and I love exchanging views with other book lovers here on Goodreads.

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December 2 2025: I received a message this morning that Goodreads plans to phase out direct messaging between members of our community.

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Lark Benobi Vivienne, I'm so happy that you read The Book of Dog! That is my little love-child of a book, and it will always be my favorite, because I self-publis…moreVivienne, I'm so happy that you read The Book of Dog! That is my little love-child of a book, and it will always be my favorite, because I self-published it, and then the feedback I got from readers (mostly here on goodreads) gave me the courage to look for an agent for the next novel I wrote, which became Chouette.

It appears that I'm -not- done with shapeshifting and its fictional possibilities. My next novel in the queue (called Poor Deer, to be published Jan 2024) has a titular big mythic beast in it, who is also the manifestation of a human character in the novel.

After Poor Deer, the book I'm writing next is all about transmogrification, along with every other kind of trans-ness. My working title for this story is "Wander," but that's likely to change. It's never clear to me if any given story is going to work until I get to the end of a first draft, which I haven't done yet with Wander. Sometimes stories stall on me in the middle. But it's the story I'm most excited about telling at the moment.

I've heard writers aren't supposed to talk about their works in progress. Oh, well.(less)
Lark Benobi 'poingu' was my original name on goodreads and I still answer to it here and in some online havens. there is no rhyme or reason to this name--it came …more'poingu' was my original name on goodreads and I still answer to it here and in some online havens. there is no rhyme or reason to this name--it came from a screen captcha in 2005. (less)
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“I am a mammal, a dog, and a bichon frise--in that order.”
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“It was a town mostly populated with elderly John Wayne fans and their caregivers.”
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“All of you losers, the Great Woolly Mammoth said. The undocumented and disabled. The forgotten ones. The left behinds. The last will be first. It's our turn. All of you need to fight together, every which way you can, and then some, and then some more, and even after you do all that, you will probably fail, and then die.”
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jana Thank You for accepting Lark, I am looking forward to your book choices and reviews. :)


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Lark Benobi Elena C. wrote: "Cursed Bunny feels like a great way to meet 😁"

yah!

I related to your comment about horror being repackaged as something deeper--as if being 'horror' isn't 'something deeper' all on its own--because I just wrote a horror novel about a woman who gives birth to an owl, and people tend to read all kinds of things into it, some of which I have trouble justifying


Elena Cursed Bunny feels like a great way to meet 😁


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Lark Benobi Majenta wrote: "Hello, Lark! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are keeping as safe and well and possible and will have a great new week. Congratulations on your book! Happy reading, writing, and everything else..."

Majenta, thanks for this sweet message! I've never read THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY and now I will--thanks! I see you've read Erich Kästner, too. I do love his children's books and they have a similar sweetness. I'm a big fan of middle grade fiction, more so than YA, because of the sweetness found in so many books in that category. I see you read a William Sleator book--House of Stairs--a while ago. I loved them all. All best to you in the coming week and beyond!


Majenta Hello, Lark! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are keeping as safe and well and possible and will have a great new week. Congratulations on your book! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. I have just recently read Totto-Chan; it was recommended to me by someone else here, and I'm very glad! I got it for my Kindle and was surprised that the story ended at--60% or 70%? and the rest was some of the passages in Japanese. When I realized that, I was very glad of it. The book reminded me of THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY by Nicholson Baker, so I recommended it to the person who had recommended TOTTO-CHAN to me, so now I'm re-reading NORY. Have you ever heard of it?
Good to meet you, have a good day and all the best for whatever you're working on at the moment. Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta


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