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Jay’s 2024 Year in Books
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Jay Nichols
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Canis Major
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2012
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Emily Smiles for April
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2013
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2 editions
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Monkey Bars
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2013
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The Slathering of Jessica Noonan
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Uprising
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2014
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Book of Suburbia
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2013
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I'm Your Toilet Paper Man or: $22.99 for Premium, High-Quality TP
Let's face it, you're going to need something . . .
Of course, the shower is the safe bet.
And the backyard garden hose is an exhilarating alternative.
Then there's that Third Eye Blind 1997 World Tour shirt collecting dust in the back of your closet . . . okay, I'll admit it, a more fitting end for that shirt cannot be imagined by this author.
And, finally, there's . . . drumroll, please . . . Cani Read more of this blog post »
Of course, the shower is the safe bet.
And the backyard garden hose is an exhilarating alternative.
Then there's that Third Eye Blind 1997 World Tour shirt collecting dust in the back of your closet . . . okay, I'll admit it, a more fitting end for that shirt cannot be imagined by this author.
And, finally, there's . . . drumroll, please . . . Cani Read more of this blog post »
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“When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.”
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“Standing there, peering around his room, Pete realized something that should have dawned on him years ago: Science really did suck. (Russell was right.) There just wasn’t any point to it. Sure, in its most altruistic distillation, science saved lives—but when had it ever made those lives worth living? The cold machine called science’s sole purpose, and Pete knew it now, was to drain the wonder out of things, to sap the imagination of its juices, to rob possibilities from dreamers. Science explained without ever getting to the crux of the matter, locking us all into a single paradigm of thought: that all we are is randomly accumulated stardust hanging out on a larger clump of randomly accumulated stardust that is spiraling out and away from other chunks of randomly accumulated stardust, on a collision course with an empty infinity.”
― Canis Major
― Canis Major
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove in the nightstand’s surface that catches the bottom of vase, and of course the wall itself. The violets, nearly a week old, droop in the light of a waning gibbous moon. Wrinkled petals are already piling up on the floor between the nightstand and the wall, and a girl only six days sixteen stares at the dying bouquet from her bed.”
― Emily Smiles for April
― Emily Smiles for April
“Standing there, peering around his room, Pete realized something that should have dawned on him years ago: Science really did suck. (Russell was right.) There just wasn’t any point to it. Sure, in its most altruistic distillation, science saved lives—but when had it ever made those lives worth living? The cold machine called science’s sole purpose, and Pete knew it now, was to drain the wonder out of things, to sap the imagination of its juices, to rob possibilities from dreamers. Science explained without ever getting to the crux of the matter, locking us all into a single paradigm of thought: that all we are is randomly accumulated stardust hanging out on a larger clump of randomly accumulated stardust that is spiraling out and away from other chunks of randomly accumulated stardust, on a collision course with an empty infinity.”
― Canis Major
― Canis Major
“Reflected in a rippling pool of gutter water a metal hawk razored across the midday sky, belching a long trailing shriek as she crossed zenith and descended talons-first into her nearby nest on the horizon. The prophet Austin’s shined black loafer described a high arc over the pool and onto the waydrive of a one-story dwelling. Close behind followed his brother in Christ, Chad, though his loafer did crash into the pool-water and split the image of the metal bird asunder.”
― Book of Suburbia
― Book of Suburbia
“How did he get here? What drew him back? Easy answer: the monkey bars. Not-so-easy answer. . . . What took him away in the first place? Gyroscopic deflections are only partly to blame. Who can stop a revolving planet? Who can predict where on the table a spinning quarter will fall flat?”
― Monkey Bars
― Monkey Bars
“On a nightstand in a teenager’s room, a glass vase filled with violets leans precariously against a wall. The only thing saving the vase from a thousand-piece death on the hardwood floor is the groove in the nightstand’s surface that catches the bottom of vase, and of course the wall itself. The violets, nearly a week old, droop in the light of a waning gibbous moon. Wrinkled petals are already piling up on the floor between the nightstand and the wall, and a girl only six days sixteen stares at the dying bouquet from her bed.”
― Emily Smiles for April
― Emily Smiles for April
“Gareth Miller grabbed the beer first, then the hotdog, because if there’s one thing you don’t want to be caught dead without at these sorts of events it’s beer. The hotdog was strictly for show, a prop, a way of blending in.
Burst of static in his right ear: “G-man, you read me? What’s yo’ twenty, dawg?”
Gareth departed the concession stand, stopped, looked down at his hands, and tossed the hotdog into the first trash receptacle he saw. Raising his wrist to his mouth, he spoke into the cuff of his long-sleeved tee. “Concession stand, Section B. Over.”
Allowing his hand to linger by his chin, he gingerly scratched his cheek as if he had meant to do it all along.
The same voice: “Yo, I’m in position. Ready when you is.”
Gareth cringed while crossing the wide concourse, checking both directions. The giant hallway was the main drag of a ghost town, its only residents a solitary custodian sweeping debris into a portable waste bin and the concession crew to his rear.”
― Uprising
Burst of static in his right ear: “G-man, you read me? What’s yo’ twenty, dawg?”
Gareth departed the concession stand, stopped, looked down at his hands, and tossed the hotdog into the first trash receptacle he saw. Raising his wrist to his mouth, he spoke into the cuff of his long-sleeved tee. “Concession stand, Section B. Over.”
Allowing his hand to linger by his chin, he gingerly scratched his cheek as if he had meant to do it all along.
The same voice: “Yo, I’m in position. Ready when you is.”
Gareth cringed while crossing the wide concourse, checking both directions. The giant hallway was the main drag of a ghost town, its only residents a solitary custodian sweeping debris into a portable waste bin and the concession crew to his rear.”
― Uprising
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