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J.J.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at J.J.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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J.J. Lair
Goodreads Author
Born
in Glen Ridge, The United States
November 12, 1970
Website
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
September 2012
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Dear Pen Pal
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1998
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3 editions
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Dream Dancing
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2007
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4 editions
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Mix Tapes and Stolen Tests (Mix Tape #2)
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2015
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Murder in the Mirror
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2023
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Mix Tapes and Stuff (Mix Tape #1)
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2014
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Mix Tapes and Empty Buildings
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Too Odd for radio, but not for music fans
Morphine
It was such a strange sound from a band. They didn’t have a guitarist. Mark Sandman played bass, saxophonist Dana Colley and drummer Jerome Dupree and later Billy Conway. That’s it. It wasn’t jazz or rock, but a funky mix. The band was called Morphine. That isn’t a name that Top 40 radio would like, but it’s memorable.
They got airplay on alternative radio because of bass intros, how not
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"Good News: I finished the book.
Bad News: I finished the book. King of Envy is the tenth book by Ana Huang I've read, and it only took me exactly 4,547 pages for me to realize her writing is not for me. That being said, if her writing is for you, then " Read more of this review » |
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"⤷ 2/5 stars ── .✦
let me start off by saying that there is absolutely no reason for this book to be 530 pages long. the beginning was nice, but the more i read, the more the story just kept dragging on and on, and after the 60% mark, i had to fight of" Read more of this review » |
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"this did not need to be 528 pages long, a romance book at that shouldn’t be longer than 400 pages. "
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""I was the CEO of a multibillion-dollar corporation and a former member of an assassins’ organization" LMFAO"
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| Pluses: he refutes some of Kenneth Angers’ incorrect myths about Hollywood deaths like Lupe Velez and Jayne Mansfield. He writes each story in small chunks so you can read at your own pace. He goes from Classic Hollywood to fairly recent. I can’t bel ...more | |
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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
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“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
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“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
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“I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.”
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“So many books, so little time.”
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Hi, J.J.Thanks for the recommendation of Jon's book. Perfect for my grandson! Have a good weekend and stay safe, Alice D
