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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jessica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jessica Treat
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New Brunswick, Canada
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Influences
not so much influences but writers I love: JM Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro,
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January 2008
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https://www.goodreads.com/jesstrea
an Interview by Carla Sarett
The wonderful short story writer, blogger and goodreader Carla Sarett asks me some interesting questions in her monthly interview:
http://carlasarett.blogspot.ca/2013/0...?
http://carlasarett.blogspot.ca/2013/0...?
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Not a Chance: Fictions
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A Robber in the House (Coffee-To-Go Short-Short Story Series)
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1993
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Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters (American Readers Series)
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PP/FF: AN ANTHOLOGY
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Quick Fiction
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Jessica’s Recent Updates
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"What a haphazard and disjointed collection of words. The author is trying to say something, and the book is called a memoir, yet after reading it I don’t feel any insights into her life (except for chaos perhaps) or to the emotions surrounding the de"
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"I didn’t love this “memoir” by Canadian literary icon Miriam Toews at all. The one thing I will say is it’s a quick read but honestly it felt like the author was asked to write something and she just did it for the money. I wanted more vulnerability "
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A creative approach to the life of the brilliant Elena Garro. I recommend reading it after having read the recently translated story collection, 'The Week of Colors,' or others of Garro's works. Barrera's approach is idiosyncratic, and it took time fo ...more |
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| The Next Best Boo...: * Share the Love for the GR Authors with me! | 158 | 1745 | Dec 28, 2019 03:03AM |
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Ways of Escape
― Ways of Escape
“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”
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“We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
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“Do you know a cure for me?"
"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."
"Salt water?" I asked him.
"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."
"Salt water?" I asked him.
"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
Graham Greene
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A group dedicated to the extraordinary life and work of Graham Greene.
Completists' Club
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The Extra Cool Group! (of people Michael is experimenting on)
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TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.
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The novella is quickly becoming my favorite length for fiction. Longer than the short story, the novella allows the author to examine the plot and cha ...more
Listomania
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Debbie "DJ"
May 15, 2014 11:46PM
Hi Jessica, thanks for the add :)
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Hi Jessicathanks for reminding me of that lovely description of a lovely man I knew in 'He Died With His Eyes Open'. Best
Happy New Year, Jessica - all the best for 2014!
Hi Jessica! How are you? Hope all is well... I started a thread over in my group for people to share their favorite reads of 2013... I'd love to see your list, if you have one: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Happy Birthday, Daphne Du Maurier!!5.13.07
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and a chain upon the gate. I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited.
a much more practical solution than mine, i admit. 'feel free to opt out after conversation is over' mitigates my reluctance into inviting people over to the archive. :Pi've just made a intro post on the fiction files: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...
would you mind posting it at the completists club?
looking forward to chatting with you about rebecca! and my cousin rachel! my two favourite du mauriers! hurray!
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the difficulty is that i don't want to insist anybody join the fiction files or the completists if they haven't already joined. i thought about linking to both pages and then making a status update with both links to all the people i've lined up and they could comment on that or one of the two groups? a viral daphne du maurier discussion? what do you think?
excellent timing, indeed! and i'm so glad your friend enjoyed it. did you see on my status update that there is a movie? with olivia de havilland and richard burton?i wasn't aware there was a movie. am trying to get access to it -- so far it looks like a 40 dollar DVD or 11 dollars on iTunes to see it... i'm trying to compare everything! i'm out of control! :)
hi jessica!just swinging by to tell you that my proposed du maurier comparative reading of rebecca and my cousin rachel is going forward and we are beginning on march 10th (or thereabouts). i posted a status update about it but wasn't sure if you would see it. :)
http://www.goodreads.com/user_status/...
let me know if you are up to it!
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Jessica, thank you for the friend request and for you kind comment about my blog post.
Hi Jessica! Wishing you health and success and happy writing/translating in 2013!
i've thought it some more and i think it's that philosophy makes murdoch a mystic writer and without it daphne is a gothic one.there! finally to the point for a change. :)
hiya jessica! nice to meet you! happy to find somebody i can blather to about my pal daphne. :) a couple of my friends are in the group and suggested i join it when it first started but then i was worried i would be compelled to complete something on a schedule -- i certainly intend to complete du maurier(though i'm still on the fence about the glassblowers) but i don't want anybody suggestion i stick to a deadline. i already have enough of those -- does the power of the completist club compel thee?anyway, i haven't yet read that bio though i've been meaning to put it on my to-read list... fascinating that she made the murdoch comparison herself -- i'd agree that she has much more of a facility with story-telling because i think she's very versatile, whereas i have never read an iris murdoch novel that didn't end up being dense -- usually including a mental wrestling match of some kind. but i've read less of her because she isn't as consumable. my brain usually needs a break. :P
hello! you'll notice i tend to run on. :)
Thanks, Jessica re the Du Maurier list- my big problem was not doing the post, but contacting MJ and asking him to stick it at the top for me, since only a moderator can do that. I kept not getting around to explaining the whole spiel to him, so sorry about my... inaction in that regard.
Just viewed the remake of "Brighton Rock." The nicest thing I can is that it's a complete catastrophe ! Thank director Rowan Joffe.
We leave on the 10th. I'll be sure to let you know how it goes. Really looking forward to it!
THANK YOU CHAIRY!I am so very thankful for all the support from the goodreads crew!
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Got your books today. Many thanks! Have already started the the one by Braine.Have a great weekend!
I have 777 books.Seems like such a portentous number.
Am loathe to add another...
"This year, all the elements are in place for another memorable YouTube worthy show." Must check for Kai on YouTube. (Once I'm back at home, where YouTube isn't blocked.)" In the movie they were played by Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine; on Broadway, they were most recently played by Nathan Lane and Faith Prince. At Housatonic, Nathan will be played by Kai Haaland of Lakeville and Adelaide will be brought to life by local theater veteran Ellie Yahn of Sharon."
http://www.tcextra.com/news/publish/f...
Aaah! There's the good David and the bad David. Double imaging...
Have fun at Ithaca!
True story! I think the pit bulls come into the dream because... I'll admit, one night when insomnia was rearing its ugly head, I watched a marathon of the show Pit Bulls and Parolees. I got hooked.And of course, JLE is always on my mind...
Last night I had a bizzarro dream with a bunch of Goodreaders in it. I believe we were all at a benefit for pit bulls. Who should come up to me but JLE!!! He said, "Books Ring My Bell! Are you still friends with that writer and would she be open to a tryst?"So I woke up with a grin.
Also strange: In the dream he was sans porn stache.
Had such a wonderful/fascinating time meeting you face to face. Thanks again for making the drive. Looking forward to the next time.
It's ok, I forget about a lot of the groups I'm in too.
I love it there so much! I hope to be able to call a little after 5. Bad news over here, but hopefully we can still work something out for Sunday.
Have a safe flight! Vicki's Grandfather is hanging in there. Will call soon.
How could you think you are not special!?!? It is merely the conflation of a series of extraordinary events!(said a mere tenth of the way along the journey.)
Not I, said the fly. Virtually, of course.Thank you for the friending. Let us continue our rampant over-indulgence unabated.
Thanks! It wasn't a mobile. It was stationary... and at MoMA. I have no idea who sculpted it. I love the Michelle/Montambo channeling!!!!
Thanks so much for all your great recommendations! I've actually had the Miranda July book on my shelves for years and have never opened it. I loved her movie and her performance art, plus I think she went to my high school, so I'm not sure why I've never got around to reading it. Thanks for reminding me about her.The other leads sound good too. I often find it sort of trying to read whole short story books by one author, but I imagine it's edifying and maybe I'll get better at it. Also, it's too hard to review an anthology on here!
feeling nostalgic for the days of the red chairs...
you know I think of him often and at the oddest times... he stayed with me for about 4 days way back when--was that april 2008? when he read at my college and visited some classes. miss him.
I have that poster framed above my fireplace. :)
(I'm being nosy, sorry!
thanks, jessica!!it is nice and rainy here - no august birthday heat wave!!!
Happy Birthday Jessica! Hope you have an awesome day.(No actual sock monkey's were harmed in the making of this birthday cake.)
Now when do we get to see YOUR top 50 favorite short stories list?:)
(That's a "i'm trying to butter you up so I can see the list" smile...)
Jessica wrote: "how strange! your link takes me to a review of Donald Trump's book, How to Get Rich... !" bloody hell, a lot of the links have gone weird on me too. What's happening man?
