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Jay’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jay Slayton-Joslin
Goodreads Author
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in Oxford, The United Kingdom
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Influences
Junot Diaz, Atticus Lish, Scott McClanahan, Dennis Cooper, Jennifer Ea
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Member Since
March 2011
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Solarcide Presents: Nova Parade
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2012
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In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words
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2011
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Sequelland: A Story of Dreams and Screams
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The Tobacco-Stained Sky
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2013
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Kicking Prose
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2014
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The Bumper Book of British Bizarro
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2020
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FINGERS: A Bizarro Fiction Anthology
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Flash Me! The Sinthology
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2013
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FINGERS: A Bizarro Fiction Anthology
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| Wow, I really didn't like this. I guess the take on time travel and having some rules around it, and the coffee shop as a location, is a cool setting / idea but I couldn't stand the writing. Going to be harbouring some resentment for the person in my ...more | |
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| I guess even though I was born in the 90s, that doesn't mean that I REMEMBER the 90s. Interesting to read and recapture these events, some of them contextualized instantly and others against the 30+ (!!!) years since. ...more | |
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Crazy fun, sharp, witty, full of bite and doesn't compromise on writing quality or style. A jaunt through LA that is falling apart as much as the country around it. It's never predictable and is sadly too true to real life. ...more |
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| God it took me so long but I'm done. In short: good BUT I wouldn't recommend it unless you're quite interested in Cuba and especially juxtaposed against it's history with America. A lot of information and not all of it went in -- probably more intere ...more | |
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| Really easy to love most things Clancy Martin does. This is extremely personal and it feels like someone much wiser giving you life advice. The 2nd part of the title is extremely important, it's more like a memoir mixed in with philosophical argument ...more | |
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