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Diana Jean Gabaldon Watkins grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona and is of Hispanic and English descent (with a dash of Native American and Sephardic Jew). She has earned three degrees: a B.S. in Zoology, a M.S. in Marine Biology, and a Ph.D in Ecology, plus an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Glasgow, for services to Scottish Literature.

She currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona .

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	A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6) 4.44 avg rating — 189,153 ratings — published 2005 — 112 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
	An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7) 4.44 avg rating — 163,381 ratings — published 2009 — 116 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
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	Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9) 4.45 avg rating — 90,160 ratings — published 2021 — 49 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
	Lord John and the Private Matter (Lord John Grey, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 50,145 ratings — published 2003 — 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

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2025-05-28-Snake-Poop-DGabaldon What’s on my mind? Hmmm…. Well, I was reading through a chunk of ABFAWGO (hey, at least it’s a pronounceable abbreviation. If you want to call the book BLESSING or WARRIOR, though, fine by me…), and came to this sentence:

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“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
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Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, 1857, 880 pp

69 votes, 26.0%

The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, 1869, 672 pp

68 votes, 25.7%

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, 1991, 627 pp

49 votes, 18.5%

Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman, 1952, 1088 pp

26 votes, 9.8%

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer, 1960, 1280 pp

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Malinovka Heights by Ivan Goncharov, 1869, 800 pp

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Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks, 1998, 758 pp

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