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Jacqueline Valencia

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Poetry, Short Stories, Comics & Graphic Novels

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James Joyce, Mary Shelley, Roberto Bolaño, Samuel Beckett, Maurice Sen ...more

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Toronto-based poet Jacqueline Valencia earned her Honours BA in English at the University of Toronto where she is currently planning on pursuing her Masters in Creative Writing.

Jacqueline is also an avid reader, freelance illustrator, and an absurdist by nature. “Maybe” and “Tristise” are her two chapbooks. “Maybe” was selected for the Arte Factum exhibit by Poetry is Dead Magazine in Vancouver in April 2012. She has contributed writings to Little Fiction, Dead Gender Magazine, Lit Pub Blog, and the Feministing blog. Her story “Picky” was selected for CBC’s Canada Writes Pick of the Day in 2012. She has also participated in Write Club Toronto 2013. Her artwork has been featured in art exhibits at Sheena’s Place and at the Feminist Art Confe...more

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Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby film review.

Last night I took myself to the Humber Cinema to watch Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s style is what I came to love about the book. He had a […]

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	Maybe 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tristise 3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Octopus Complex 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze

by Thomas Allen Nelson

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Chris Marker

by Nora M. Alter

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Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace

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Jacqueline Valencia wrote a new blog post Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby film review. Last night I took myself to the Humber Cinema to watch Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald’s style is what I... Read more of this blog post »
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Jacqueline Valencia wants to read Born Weird by Andrew Kaufman (Goodreads Author)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jacqueline Valencia rated a book 5 of 5 stars Diary Comics 3 by Dustin Harbin read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I picked this (and issue 3) at TCAF this year. Seeing as I write journal/blog style most of the time, I hadn't considered it for my comic writing, but it seems now like something I might consider. Harbin says that Kate Beaton had suggested diary writi...more
May 17, 2013 06:26am · see review
Jacqueline Valencia rated a book 5 of 5 stars Diary Comics Number 1 - Jan-Jun 2010 by Dustin Harbin	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
May 17, 2013 06:07am
Jacqueline Valencia made a comment on A poem and some homemade gifs. "Thank you Gary! And thanks for reading. :-)"
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Jacqueline Valencia is currently reading Kubrick: Inside a Film Artist's Maze by Thomas Allen Nelson	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
May 10, 2013 02:52pm
Jacqueline Valencia rated a book 5 of 5 stars The Plague by Albert Camus read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I must add this to be re-read. Reading it with current events in mind gives it a surrealistic bent that I haven't been used to in contemporary writing these days. More to be added here if I have the time.
May 10, 2013 02:51pm · see review
Jacqueline Valencia is currently reading Chris Marker by Nora M. Alter	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Jacqueline Valencia wants to read Tesseracts4 by Lorna Toolis	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
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“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently...”
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