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Jen is Currently Reading

Jen is currently reading

Tender Cruelty (Dark Olympus Book 9)

by Katee Robert (Goodreads Author)

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Little Spark of Flame (Creature Cafe, #14)

by Clio Evans (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 25, 2025 10:56PM

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Anxious People

by Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)

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Jen’s Notes & Highlights

Stoner by John Williams

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The True, the Good, the Beautiful. They’re just around the corner, in the next corridor; they’re in the next book, the one you haven’t read, or in the next stack, the one you haven’t got to. But you’ll get to it someday. And when you ...more

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Jen’s Quotes

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: attributed-no-source

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“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: women

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Jen’s Groups

Books on the Nightstand — 6093 members — last activity Dec 01, 2025 10:30AM
A group to discuss books and topics mentioned on Books on the Nightstand, a blog and podcast about books and reading.

What's the Name of That Book??? — 119394 members — last activity 1 hour, 31 min ago
Can't remember the title of a book you read? Come search our bookshelves and discussion posts. If you don’t find it there, post a description on our U ...more

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon — 4436 members — last activity Nov 30, 2025 02:44PM
Our next readathon will be April 18-19, 2026. We'll start reading at 8am Eastern Time April 18th, and end at 8am April 19th.. ...more

Tournament of Books — 2335 members — last activity 22 minutes ago
This book group was established for those interested in participating in The Morning News's Tournament of Books. Please do not feel the need to finish ...more

Reading 1001 — 572 members — last activity 1 hour, 32 min ago
Welcome to our group! We are a friendly group whose goal is to read through Boxall’s list of 1001 books. Many of us were together as a group over at S ...more

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