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Jennifer’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jennifer’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jennifer deBie
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in Texarkana, The United States
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Talking Books
I am lucky… in a lot of ways, many of which I’ve talked about here, but today I’m going to tell you that I am lucky to be a mildly professional book talker.
Before I became what I am today, I was an enthusiastic amateur book talker, and then I went to school and became an educated book talker (able to use key words and tricky phrases like Proustian, liminal spaces, and bathos with aplomb), and now
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| This is my first time stepping into Austen ephemera, away from the published novels and into her unpublished work, and the contrast is fascinating. Witty and just as sharply observant, but far from as polished, and (of course) incomplete for the most ...more | |
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Just plain fun. Pratchett loved words, characters, history, and literature - and all of that is on full display in Dodger. A kid from the London slums does a good deed one rainy night, and is immediately catapulted into the world of toffs, intrigue, an ...more |
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Beautiful. Terrible. A novel to make you weep with frustration, heartbreak, triumph. Hannah writes in her afterward that this is an idea she first began percolating in the late '90s, as a young writer, but that at the time she knew she needed time and ...more |
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| Pride & Prejudice is an annual summer re-read for me, as it has been since I was a young teenager. I have most of it memorized, or nearly memorized, but every time it still gets me. There are layers and jokes and situations that take on different hue ...more | |
“Monsters are the patron saints of otherness.”
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“I'm not sure if you eat meat these days, but if you do, I hope you leave clean bones, get your money's worth.”
― Sadness Workshop
― Sadness Workshop
“His Majesty’s Government does employ the oddest people at times, sir. They have, after all, employed you.”
― Pelham on Parole
― Pelham on Parole
“We were migrants and Mexicans and all that
we carried in our pockets were dreams.”
― The Death of a Migrant Worker
we carried in our pockets were dreams.”
― The Death of a Migrant Worker
“-You see, I have it within me still,” you said, and opened your pocket and pulled out a piece of sheet music, the black calligraphy in its careful, blocky dots making the whole thing look like paving stones on a log road. The calligraphy went on and on, and you pulled the entire song out from your skin where you’d kept it, just in case your friend wanted to see it again.”
― The Shivering Ground & Other Stories
― The Shivering Ground & Other Stories
Indie book club
— 239 members
— last activity Nov 12, 2025 12:04PM
This is a book club for discussing books from independent publishers. Loving the edgy, the overlooked, and the uncategorizable! Not saying the big pu ...more
