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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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October 2018
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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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| I teach a unit on serial killers in one of my literature courses, and students frequently ask "how did people not know" that these guys existed before the mid-20th century. The short answer is that some did - it's just hard to recognize a pattern whe ...more | |
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| I'm reading too much about totalitarian regimes at the moment to not get goosebumps at Higuera's lyrical look at life beyond planet earth. Embedded with folklore, The Last Cuentista is a coming of age story set in the distant stars. Humanity on earth ...more | |
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I obviously do not know enough about the Spanish Inquisition. Luiza, the woman at the center of all the intrigue, is just a scullion. Just a secret conversa. Just a woman with the music and magic of language at her command, and ambition that drives he ...more |
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I obviously do not know enough about the Spanish Inquisition. Luiza, the woman at the center of all the intrigue, is just a scullion. Just a secret conversa. Just a woman with the music and magic of language at her command, and ambition that drives he ...more |
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The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
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| I was looking forward to this one, both because I'm currently researching spiritualism and because Penner has good buzz around her, but it really just fell flat. Things that didn't need to be so complicated, were tied into knots, other things that co ...more | |
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| Not necessarily my genre, but a well told story. A crisis of faith and faith found, redemption for a fallen woman, an asshole ex who gets what's coming to him - there are some staple plot points in here, though I have since learned that stories about ...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
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— last activity Sep 28, 2025 08:29AM
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
