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jj is 90% done with Junie
"Among the uncountable pleasures the McQueen family has stolen from Junie, their most profound theft is stealing her right to scream."
Mar 18, 2026 07:33PM Add a comment
Junie

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jj is 66% done with Junie
“You’re my middle C.”
“Middle C?”
“The key between the lows and the highs, the balance of it all, the true center of the music.”
Mar 18, 2026 05:32PM Add a comment
Junie

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jj is 52% done with Junie
(things that are unseen and their lightness, and their weightiness)

the weight of guilt
Mar 18, 2026 04:13PM Add a comment
Junie

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jj is 29% done with Junie
Caleb and Junie’s banter - so cute!
Mar 17, 2026 07:47AM Add a comment
Junie

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jj is 85% done with Till We Have Faces
Book 2 Chapter 1 is filled with memorable quotes on writing and stories and understanding and thinking about what is a life. Beauty.
Feb 21, 2026 02:29PM Add a comment
Till We Have Faces

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jj is 80% done with Till We Have Faces
“The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.”
Feb 21, 2026 01:30PM Add a comment
Till We Have Faces

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jj is 37% done with Till We Have Faces
I was disengaged and then chapter 10 locked me in. Maya’s despondence and grief; Psyche’s description, seeds planted from previous chapter; mortal shame; bridegroom coming. 👌
Feb 21, 2026 09:58AM Add a comment
Till We Have Faces

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jj is on page 29 of 393 of Arena
Jan 22, 2026 01:00PM Add a comment
Arena

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jj is 41% done with Passenger to Frankfurt
lol this is somehow both bonkers and meandering so far and apparently if just keeps going. A spy - rather than detective - story with great dollops of “I guess this is happening now, ok” and soapbox-level whinges.
Jan 16, 2026 01:14PM Add a comment
Passenger to Frankfurt

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jj is 72% done with A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories
‘The Pedestrian’ continues in the same vein of other stories in this anthology regarding a future where robotic and cookie-cutter belief of how everyone should act wins over individualism, imagination, and curiosity.
Jan 06, 2026 04:37PM Add a comment
A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories

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jj is 71% done with A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories
‘The Man’ was a short story about faith that I didn’t expect but was not bad. Though I’m reading this as an audiobook and the narrator has a forceful shout that can be off-putting and I don’t enjoy.

‘Time in Thy Flight’ is a very short story similar to the vampire/zombie story (‘Pillar of Fire’?) on nostalgia and things that may be lost in future culture (western-centric).
Jan 06, 2026 04:20PM Add a comment
A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories

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