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Jay Daze

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Jay Daze is currently reading

The Lost Story

by Meg Shaffer (Goodreads Author)

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The Midwich Cuckoos

by John Wyndham

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"First pregnancy mentioned in letter from Ferrelyn Zellaby to fiance Alan Huuhes. Love the detached clinical observation of everything. Making it more real and more chilling. Relentlessly material." — Mar 23, 2026 10:36AM

Mar 23, 2026 10:12AM

Jay’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music

Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music by Michael Robbins

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My understanding of poetry’s consolatory powers has more in common with psychoanalysis as a way of fortifying the self through the acceptance of perpetual unrest. Our

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Jay’s Quotes

“God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be. ”
― J.D. Salinger

tags: reading

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time

tags: humor, novels, writing

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