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Sophfronia Scott

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Sophfronia Scott is a novelist, essayist, and leading contemplative thinker whose work has received a 2020 Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Office of the Arts. Her book The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton won the 2021 Thomas Merton “Louie” Award from the International Thomas Merton Society. She holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Sophfronia began her career as an award-winning magazine journalist for Time, where she co-authored the groundbreaking cover story “Twentysomething,” the first study identifying the demographic group known as Generation X, and People. When her first novel, All I Need to Get By, was published by St. Martin’s Press in ...more

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Average rating: 4.28 · 14,089 ratings · 963 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wild, Beautiful, and Free 4.30 avg rating — 13,155 ratings — published 2023 — 7 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
	Unforgivable Love 3.82 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2017 — 7 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 Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton by Sophfronia Scott (Goodreads Author), Barbara Brown Taylor (Foreword) 4.22 avg rating — 249 ratings — 5 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
	This Child of Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in a Secular World by Sophfronia Scott (Goodreads Author), Tain Gregory 4.32 avg rating — 47 ratings — 5 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
	Love's Long Line 4.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2018 — 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
	All I Need to Get By: A Novel 4.20 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2004 — 5 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
	Doing Business by the Book: How to Craft a Crowd-Pleasing Book and Attract More Clients and Speaking Engagements Than You Ever Thought Possible really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 3 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
	How the Fierce Handle Fear: Secrets to Succeeding in Challenging Times by Sophfronia Scott (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Frank McKinney, Pamela Slim (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 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 Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations With Thomas Merton by Sophfronia Scott (Goodreads Author), Kellye A. Saunders (Narrator) 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
	Doing Business by the Book : How to Craft a Crowd-Pleasing Book and Attract More Clients and Speaking Engagements Than You Ever Thought Possible (Paperback)--by Sophfronia Scott [2008 Edition] by Sophfronia Scott (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 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 Possibility in Positivity

The author Gavin De Becker says ��If we are to build resilience and bounce back from the struggles of life, we must take this battle of the mind seriously.�� For this morning��s walk, how positivity is about engaging with reality, not denying or running away from it.

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Archive of Unknown Universes

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“I savor these moments. They sit tart and bright and sweet on my tongue like the taste of hibiscus tea with honey. From these moments I can cultivate gratitude and from gratitude I distill grace.”
― Sophfronia Scott, On Being 40

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“People don’t think to ask for anything. They don’t want to be told no.”
― Sophfronia Scott, Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons

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“She felt something comforting about his attentiveness; it was like having an earthbound deity watching over her, and she warmed in his sun constantly shining on her”
― Sophfronia Scott, Unforgivable Love: A Retelling of Dangerous Liaisons

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Ok I don't know what happened but I completed this poll about 2 hrs ago and now I can't find it!!! This is a really touchy part of Goodreads, but...I am gonna try again!

This poll is for the May Members Choice book.

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Happiness Falls

by Angie Kim

11 votes, 32.4%

Westering Women

by Sandra Dallas

7 votes, 20.6%

Bloodroot

by Amy Greene

6 votes, 17.6%

The Words Between Us

by Erin Bartels

6 votes, 17.6%

Wild, Beautiful, and Free

by Sophfronia Scott

4 votes, 11.8%

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Sophfronia’s Quotes

“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”
― Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

tags: inspirational, spiritual

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“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

tags: inspirational, life

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“I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

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“When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.”
― Frederick Buechner

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