Joe Coomer (Author of Pocketful of Names)

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Joe Coomer

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in Fort Worth, Texas, The United States

November 03, 1958

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Crafts & Hobbies

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Joe Coomer is a fiction and nonfiction writer who lives outside of Fort Worth, Texas, and on the coast of Maine. He "spends his winters in Springtown, Texas, where he runs a pair of large antique malls. He lives in a fairly new Victorian house that he spent a year and a half building in the late eighties, a project he wrote about in Dream House [1991]. His wife, Isabelle Tokumaru, runs her paintings conservation practice in the third story, while he writes novels in the kitchen, where the food is close. Summers, they live in Stonington, Maine, an active fishing village on the coast. When the weather's nice, he takes his old motor sailer, "Yonder", on day sails and cruises down east. He chronicled her purchase, restoration, and his stupiditi ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 3,635 ratings · 589 reviews · 16 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Pocketful of Names 4.13 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 2005 — 9 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
	Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God 3.97 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 1995 — 13 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 Loop 3.83 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1992 — 17 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
	One Vacant Chair: A Novel 3.84 avg rating — 460 ratings — published 2003 — 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
	Apologizing to Dogs 3.65 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 1999 — 12 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
	Sailing in a Spoonful of Water 4.03 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1997 — 4 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
	A Flatland Fable 4.03 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1986 — 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 Decatur Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1983 — 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
	Kentucky Love 4.13 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1985 — 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
	Dream House: On Building a House 3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1992 — 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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“I鈥檝e come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I鈥檓 always at a loss for words.”
― Joe Coomer, Sailing in a Spoonful of Water

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“Are we defined by where we want to go or where we've been?”
― Joe Coomer

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“Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place we were born? Are our aspirations our home? Maybe we are from that place to which we're bound, and that's why desire hurts so much, this longing to find a place to rest, to get home. We're not from the past, but the future.”
― Joe Coomer, One Vacant Chair: A Novel

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The group's decision will be announced on Monday, May 17th, and discussion questions will be posted on Friday, June 18th.

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

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Castle by J. Robert Lennon

5 votes 23.8%

Pocketful of Names by Joe Coomer

2 votes 9.5%

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