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Jason is Currently Reading

Jason Murphy is currently reading

Burn the Plans

by Tyler Jones (Goodreads Author)

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A Calendar of Wisdom

by Leo Tolstoy

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Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

by Lisa Cron (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, non-fiction, writing

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Book cover for The Tangled Woods (Dark Corners Collection, #5)

The Tangled Woods (Dark Corners Collection, #5) by Emily Raboteau

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He dozed in the beach chair at the shoreline of the wave pool. A siren sounded on a timer, signaling the uterine churning of the waves. It was humid and smelled of chlorine. There was nothing natural about it. They could not be farther from ...more

This is a profoundly accurate depiction of Americana today.

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Jason’s Quotes

“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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“Children see magic because they look for it.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

tags: child, children, imagination, magic, search

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“But here is an artist. He desires to paint you the dreamiest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of Saco.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: artist

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“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service

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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama

tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work

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