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“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
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“Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.
(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)”
― The Odes of Horace
(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)”
― The Odes of Horace
Jen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
46 books
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50 friends
95 books
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6 friends
1,322 books
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15 friends
178 books
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119 friends
699 books
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98 friends
405 books
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47 friends
564 books
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33 friends
49 books
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50 friends
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Favorite Genres
Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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