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Jessica
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“I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.”
― Cold Days
― Cold Days
“We think in story. It’s hardwired in our brain. It’s how we make strategic sense of the otherwise overwhelming world around us.”
― Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
― Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Art is fire plus algebra.”
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“No one just starts giggling and wearing black and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals, or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where it was.”
― Cold Days
― Cold Days
JDL's Books & Brews Book Club
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Adults 21+ are invited to join JDL's Carnegie Library book club, Books & Brews @ Bifferhaus Brewing Company. ...more
Instructional Designers
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Any instructional designers who would like to join are welcome.
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Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jessica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Business, Children's, Christian, Classics, Comics, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Young-adult, and urban-fantasy
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