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John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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John Jeffire
Goodreads Author
Born
in Detroit, The United States
Genre
Influences
Member Since
February 2012
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Motown Burning
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2006
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Pain & Renewal: A Poetry Anthology
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River Rouge
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2015
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Tidbits: One-Page Stories
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2019
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Stone + Fist + Brick + Bone
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2007
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Motown Burning: Chapter 1 (Motown Burning: The Novel)
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2014
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Mobius Blvd: Stories from the Byway Between Reality and Dream No. 13: November 2024
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Shoveling Snow in a Snowstorm
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A Temple for Tomorrows: poetry by John Jeffire
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Lady Hazardous
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Awe? No
After hearing rave reviews, I picked up A.M. Homes “Days of Awe” with great anticipation. I was, in short, expecting to be awed. I wasn’t. These are for the most part good stories, some of them quite good. But they are not great. They possess neither the deftness of Alice Munro nor the raw power of Raymond Carver. There is a vast difference between quirky characters and those that are unrelatable—
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| If you've ever ventured into the wilds of northern Michigan (not the UP but the northern terrain of the mitten), you've probably at least passed through a town like the fictional Bear River--rusted, worn, barely able to support a gas station and a ta ...more | |
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| The majority of the narration in this short story collection is from the point of view of an often long-winded but kindly uncle figure, someone you wish would just get on with it but at the same time he is harmlessly charming and not worth offending. ...more | |
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| As I poured through these stories, the unread portion of the book grew thinner, leaving me saddened that the journey was almost over. The tales are so clear, so accessible, so unpretentiously rendered that I wanted the collection to continue and the ...more | |
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| I understand brilliance and genius, but recognizing these qualities does not necessarily mean enjoying their product. Kraznahorkai is a brilliant man, but this tome quickly becomes tedious. I liken it to David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest," long-w ...more | |
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| Shakespeare's famous lines about holding a mirror up to nature are perhaps best heeded by memoirists, whose success is often measured by how much the audience identifies with the events and people they describe. In this sense, the successful memoiris ...more | |
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| In a world increasingly bent on denying the existence of objective truths and morals, very few writers today possess the courage to challenge us—to deeply ponder, to question, to wonder. Enter Michael Hopkins. This collection engages readers on so ma ...more | |
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| I'm a big fan of Murukami, and my expectations were high. It's not a good sign, however, when you begin flipping ahead to see how many pages are left in a story. For example, "Yesterday" tends to drag and it can be tough to follow the cultural refere ...more | |
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| Having grown up in East Dearborn and written considerably about the experience, I can attest to Zeineddine's authenticity in capturing this unique--and too often misunderstood--community. Immigrants and refugees, in large part from the Middle East, h ...more | |
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| Who doesn't love a good road tale? This one begins with great suddenness--our narrator, Ella Robina, who is dying of cancer, and her husband, John, who is rapidly deteriorating with dementia, leave suburban Detroit for one last hurrah and head out fo ...more | |
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| Having grown up in East Dearborn and written considerably about the experience, I can attest to Zeineddine's authenticity in capturing this unique--and too often misunderstood--community. Immigrants and refugees, in large part from the Middle East, h ...more | |
“What thou lovest well remains.”
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“I am large, I contain multitudes”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.”
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
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...August 18, 2013 to September 17, 2013... I'm happy to talk about my new collection of prose poems, Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist, the prose po ...more
