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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.
Jennifer Lang’s Followers (93)
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Jennifer Lang
Goodreads Author
Born
Berkeley, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Member Since
September 2013
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Places We Left Behind: a memoir-in-miniature
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Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses
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Jennifer Lang
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Jennifer Lang said:
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I adored City of Light and so wanted to devour this. Alas, it did not read as well, but the story of the advent of penicillin, the discovery of mold to make life-saving medicine, the big bucks behind it, the use of it in the US military, the roles of
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Jennifer’s Recent Updates
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| A longtime yoga practitioner and memoir writer, I couldn't wait to dig into Blair Glaser's story. In This Incredible Longing, Glaser aches. As a little girl, she longed for her mother to accept and love her unconditionally. She yearned to be seen and ...more | |
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| This is a story of a family dynamic--two parents and two daughters, the older one out of control reckless, the younger one, obedient and cautious--that is shaped by the older sibling's mental illness. The tension is clear, the stakes are high, but at ...more | |
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| A phenomenal and inspiring suite to The Girl with the Louding Voice. I was thrilled to find that the young Adunni was still in Lagos and hoping to be educated and fighting to be heard. This is a story of so many important themes: voice, education, po ...more | |
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| Set in England, 1580, Hamnet is a fascinating, fictional story about a little-known character—William Shakespeare's son--and his death during the Black Death. ...more | |
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The Roots of the Guava Tree: Growing Up Jewish and Arab in Colombia
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| A beautiful childhood memoir of a girl growing up in Cali, Columbia who yearns to be like everybody else but knows she's different. Her mother is Jewish of Eastern European descent and her father is Arab Christian from Bethlehem; every time she asks ...more | |
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| Merav Fima's Late Blossoms left me yearning for more. Her richly imagined characters, female artists and writers and poets of once-upon-a-time Jerusalem--Anna Ticho, Rachel Bluwstein-Sela, Zelda Schneurson-Mishkovsky, Else Lasker-Schüler, Leah Goldbe ...more | |
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Jennifer Lang
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Lori L Abramson’s review
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Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses
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Oh, the love. Forever grateful.
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Jennifer Lang
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Lori L Abramson's review
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Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses:
"I've been following Jennifer Lang since 1995 and have always loved her writing. Crystal clear and engaging, the author invites us in to her home, her thoughts, struggles, and successes. Each chapter contains a piece of wisdom that she learned or unde"
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| A friend urged me to read this book and I spent the first few parts wondering why, disliking the characters, not feeling the urgency to read. And then, it all changed. A new part began. I turned the page. Everything changed. This was one of the most ...more | |
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| The story begins in 1830s in rural Scotland with characters and accents and ways of life that are unknown and interesting to me. There fifteen-year-old Callandra is devastated by her father's sudden death and understands that the only way to save her ...more | |
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