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Jen is Currently Reading

Jen is currently reading

Blob: A Love Story – A Witty and Heartfelt Debut Novel About Identity and What It Means to Be Human

by Maggie Su

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Dec 19, 2025 10:31PM

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Tender Cruelty (Dark Olympus Book 9)

by Katee Robert (Goodreads Author)

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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

“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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“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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“Harold sighs. “Jude,” he says, “there’s not an expiration date on needing help, or needing people. You don’t get to a certain age and it stops.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

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“He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

tags: friendship, love

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