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Jessie Atkin

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Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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J.M. Barrie, Stephen King Philip Pullman, EL Doctorow ...more

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Jessie Atkin writes fiction, essays, and plays. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Writing Disorder, Daily Science Fiction, Space and Time Magazine, and elsewhere. Her full-length play, "Generation Pan," was published by Pioneer Drama. She can be found online at jessieatkin.com ...more

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Reading is not Dead

Standing in a line that wraps around the hall six times, waiting for the chance to see John Green speak, doesn’t surprise me, but it may surprise some people. I keep hearing and reading about how people no longer read. My teacher friends are hardly allowed to assign full books to their students. But as I stand behind a pack of high schoolers and look down into the atrium below, where families weav

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	We Are Savages 3.87 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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
	Footnote 3 by Leah Angstman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cynthia Anderson, Jessie Atkin (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020	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
	Generation Pan it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Space and Time Spring/Summer #141 by Space & Time, C.M. Barnes, Andrew Forget it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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
	Oodles of Noodles (A Counting Word Play Board Book for Toddlers) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“You go to bed angry or sad enough, you can wake up just about anywhere”
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“It seemed in life, whenever you were wanted, it was for some discussion or explanation. Silence was just something to be filled.”
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“Fireflies ... They’ll follow you wherever you like, as long as you’re polite to ’em. ”
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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: infinity

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“Slow people are just paying close attention.”
― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion

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“You go to bed angry or sad enough, you can wake up just about anywhere”
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