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J.’s 2024 Year in Books
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J. Schlenker
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The exploration and seemingly realness of the endless worlds and many universes that the human mind can create.
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Lunch with The Water Spider
While working on writing, specifically a new cover for The Water Spider, I’m having lunch. This shrimp salad was actually inspired by airport food (Houston—specifically, a Tex-Mex eatery located in Terminal C, although I don’t recall the restaurant’s name). The drink is iced tea.
As I was updating The Water Spider, I discovered November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the
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is starting Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words: Couldn't finish. Loved the cover. I think the characters were just too young for me.
Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words (Chai Masala Club #1)
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"Poor Phoebe Stone, an English professor at a St Louis college, is in bad way. Her husband Matt has left her for a colleague and her cat has died. Feeling that she can't take the pain any more, she checks herself into a luxury Rhode Island hotel with "
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“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”
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Hey J, thanks for the friend request.... Looking forward to all the bookish discussions :))
Hey J, thanks so much for the friendship request. Can't wait to share books with you!
