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Jordan Murray

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Born

in Toronto, Canada

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Thriller, Horror, Suspense

Influences

Gillian Flynn, Alice Feeney

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March 2013

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Jordan Murray is the Amazon bestselling author of suspense novels Visions Unveiled, I Did It For You, The Clearing, and the short story collection Bird Boy and Other Short Stories. She holds a BA in English Literature & a Bachelor of Education (BEd), and is a primary school teacher. Originally from Toronto, Jordan now resides in suburban Ontario with her pet cat, Josie Macaroni, and an ever-growing collection of books.

When she's not writing or teaching, Jordan can be found reading or collecting more books—an obsession she fully embraces, even if it stretches her wallet.
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Average rating: 4.16 · 86 ratings · 38 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Did It For You really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Bird Boy: and Other Short Stories 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — 6 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 Clearing 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Trepidation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 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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My 2021 Reading Goals...

Well, its been a while since I've posted... oops. With 2020 behind us, I think we're all hoping for a better year in 2021. For me, part of that is a better year for reading. In December 2020, I put together a list of my goals, and I've been adhering to them pretty well so far!

- Read 40 books in 2021
- Go on a book-buying-ban as long as possible
- Prioritize the books that have been sitting on my she Read more of this blog post »

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If Cats Disappeared from the World

by Genki Kawamura

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Muñeca

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Fahrenheit 451

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I think Half His Age had a lot of potential, but suffered from the weight of all it was trying to do - so much so that it ultimately didn't achieve much, if any, of it. Waldo's narration did have some nice introspection, but it never quite led anywhe ...more
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“Sometimes it’s just easier to throw a bandage on a wound and call it healed.”
― Jordan Murray, The Clearing

tags: sad-quotes, sadness-love, suspense-thriller

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“Just because a heart is broken doesn’t mean it’s devoid of love.”
― Jordan Murray, The Clearing

tags: love-hurts, sadness-quotes, suspense-thriller

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“Ghosts aren’t real, but the ones that live within us are. They haunt us in everything we do.”
― Jordan Murray, The Clearing

tags: sadness, sadness-quotes, suspense-thriller

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Jordan’s Quotes

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: experience, journals, plath, poems, poet, poetry, sylvia-plath, writer, writing

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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

tags: truth

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“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: edgar-allan-poe, intelligence, madness

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“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
― Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

tags: beth-harmon, chess, grandmaster, world-champion

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