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Jen is Currently Reading

Jen is currently reading

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

by Mira Jacob (Goodreads Author)

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Nov 26, 2025 09:54PM

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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 believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

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“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“There are people who help you and people who hurt you. You keep the former. You keep the former until they become the latter and hope that you never hurt the former.”
― Nafkote Tamirat, The Parking Lot Attendant

tags: enemies, friends, life, relationships

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“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“She read beautifully, deeply. I don't know how else to describe it.
Eventually, I finally asked her what she got out of reading these books by old dead men, what the words on the page had to do with her. The kind of question an idiot asks. But she took it seriously, she pursed her lips.
It's just another way to talk to the dead, she said.
It's another way to make a way, she said.”
― Bryan Washington, Lot

tags: books, houston, reading

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