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Jeff is Currently Reading

Jeff is currently reading

A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing

by Tim Weed (Goodreads Author)

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""The Camp at Cutthroat Lake": 5/5 - saturated with a sense of lurking dread, this story relies on the symbolism of an otherwise innocuous fishing trip, and the subtle character development doled out sparingly across only a few pages. Impeccable pacing and foreshadowing, thought-provoking and vivid." — Jan 12, 2026 02:44PM

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Jeff’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets

Fantastic Tales of Terror: History's Darkest Secrets by Eugene Johnson

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“You are not comfortable because everything is all fucked up in this world and everyone is all fucked up, can’t help it, all fucked up, that’s just the fucking way it is. Fucked up. That’s why you want to create something beautiful and pure ...more

The Butcher of the Forest

by Premee Mohamed

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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir

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Jeff’s Quotes

“He is always looking back, living more in memories than the present, often altering them to make them prettier. To make them perfect. Nostalgia is as much an analgesic for him as alcohol.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

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“Are you going to nuke us, too, Commander BUTTHOLE?”
― Warren Fahy, Fragment

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“You can't stop them. Some people don't care if a girl cries, or a tiger dies. They have rules. I did what I had to and we survived.”
― Paul Rosolie, The Girl and the Tiger

tags: conservation, naturalism, tiger

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“In that moment, I realized how dangerous it was to keep company with the characters from books. They lived books lives of fierce deeds and deep yearning.”
― Jeffrey Ford, Ahab's Return: A Haunting Moby-Dick Retelling – Captain Ahab Hunts Ishmael in Gothic 1800s New York

tags: intertextuality

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“Julia laughs—one of the greatest sounds he’s ever encountered—and he can’t remember the last time he heard it. Beautiful but also crushing to experience. Like a secret window into the person he used to know.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

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