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The Shining Years

by Emilie Baker Loring

This is all about an aspiring author who is rejected and decides to make the person who rejected her script suitably apologetic. They encounter each other in a small town where a corrupt person wants to shut down the local paper if it does not support his ambitions

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?