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Jacqueline’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jacqueline’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jacqueline Masumian
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When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology
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2018
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Nobody Home: A Memoir
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2013
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Miss Portland - A Fine Novel
Miss Portland by David EbenbachMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Phenomenal is one way to describe this novel. Extraordinary is another. In Miss Portland David Ebenbach reaches so deeply into the heart and mind of a young woman struggling with mental illness, the reader becomes enthralled.
Zoe Tussler has come to Portland, Maine, with high hopes for a relationship with yoga instructor Gordy, for setting u Read more of this blog post »
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| This fine piece of literary fiction is, as everyone knows, based on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is a masterpiece based on a classic and won the National Book Award. This version of the story, told in the voice of Jim rather than of Huck, revea ...more | |
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| I know, I know, it’s a world renowned American classic, but I just did not enjoy reading it. In fact, I only read it because I had just read Percival Everett’s JAMES, and wanted to know what it was based on. Okay, so Huck and Jim share a raft going d ...more | |
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"First, I’m a huge Percival Everett fan. His prose is stunning, and to me, magical. He evokes a myriad of complex feelings in short paragraphs, in short chapters. He is a master.
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"I've read this line in a few reviews by different readers, that every one of Percival Everett's books (and there are many - 35 or so?) has led him to writing James. I agree.
In this incredible telling of Jim-from-Huckleberry-Finn's story, there's a p" Read more of this review » |
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"James is the 22nd book I read by Percival Everett. When I was at book #18, I met the man when he spoke on a panel here in NYC where I live. I’d brought my copy of Erasure for him to sign. I’d chosen carefully—the newest looking of his books on my she"
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| This fine piece of literary fiction is, as everyone knows, based on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is a masterpiece based on a classic and won the National Book Award. This version of the story, told in the voice of Jim rather than of Huck, revea ...more | |
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Laysee wrote: "Like you, I was gripping the book as I read about the races. Superb review, Jacqueline."
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“Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.”
― Truth & Beauty
― Truth & Beauty
“I cannot live without books.”
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“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
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“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
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“We are surrounded by story.”
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