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Jennifer

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Jennifer is Currently Reading

Jennifer is currently reading

The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #9)

by Elly Griffiths (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: mysteries-tbr, owned-tbr, currently-reading

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Royal Flush (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #3)

by Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)

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"So much fun to be spending time with Georgie again!" — Jul 24, 2026 05:38PM

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Horse

by Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)

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Jennifer’s Notes & Highlights

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

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Lita cups my chin in her soft, brown hand. “You can’t ruin them. They’ve traveled hundreds of years, and through many people to find you. Now, go make them your own.”

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“Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.”
― Paul Éluard, Selected Poems (A Calderbook, Cb435)

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“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

tags: books, love, reading

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“His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
― Carter Crocker

tags: misattributed-a-a-milne

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“It was a fine April morning when I came out of the library; the sun was shining and the false glorious promises of spring were everywhere, showing oddly through the village grime. I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

tags: springtime

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