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Jenna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jenna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Jenna Le
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Six Rivers
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2011
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A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora
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2016
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Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents
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PANK 9
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Manatee Lagoon: Poems
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Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women
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The Best of the Raintown Review
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SRPR, Spoon River Poetry Review, 47.2 Winter 2022
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Star*Line 44.4, Fall 2021
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The Rotary Dial May 2015
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"I chose this lean country" by W.H. Auden
Even though W.H. Auden wrote it when he was only 20 years old and an undergrad at Oxford, "I chose this lean country" is, to me, a poem of shiver-inducing beauty. Because I, like the Margaret mentioned in the poem, am a "brazen leech" (the word "leech," in this context, means not a parasite but a physician), I decided to get to know the poem a bit better by making a recording of myself reading it
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"VALENTINE: You can't open a door till there's a house. A few hastily jotted thoughts: The structure of this play with its two interwoven halves is, of course, brilliant, ...more |
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Is there any life as restricted and miserable as a woman's? I read this slowly throughout the year, from January to December, immersing myself in aristocratic Heian-period Japanese culture as in a slow warm bath. There are a lot of characters here, bo ...more |
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| A stripped-down emotional fable for grown-ups: it's Love in the Afternoon but without all the Billy Wilder bits (the cozy Paris location shots, private-detective shenanigans, etc.), although, gratifyingly, the book's ending is the same as the film's, ...more | |
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| Having, like many people, first come to this book by way of the musical Cabaret, I was startled by the ways in which the source text differs from the phantasms it has spawned into our collective cultural imagination: it was a shock to learn that Sall ...more | |
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| A tremendously lively, funny, and entertaining read as far as literary biographies go, and I've read quite a few lately. Gives you a remarkably vivid sense of Auden as a person -- his virtues (his genteelness, generosity, and unbelievable capacity to ...more | |
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"I saw that from now on I, like that woman, was going to have to ask for help, and from strangers too: I who could not even ask for love or friendship." A novel about the unplanned pregnancy of a single woman in England in the 1960s (a handful of year ...more |
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“He does look stupid.” I remember telling other kids in fifth grade that Breakfast at Tiffany's was ...more |
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"I want too much, she thought. I want everything. I want day and night, arrows and Agincourt, sleeping and waking, world without end, amen." "A Border-Line Case" belongs to the top rank of Du Maurier's fiction: like much of her best work, it is an int ...more |
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| I sought this book out after watching the Terence Davies biopic Benediction, which I enjoyed despite its unevenness and occasionally cringily unsubtle script (the scenes with Tom Blyth as Glen Byam Shaw and Kate Phillips as Hester Gatty are the best) ...more | |
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| Forster is so good at writing scenes, thrillingly vivid and cinematic scenes: the scene at the theater, when the trio go to see Lucia di Lammermoor; the scene the next morning when Gino (not knowing Caroline is watching him from the next room) asks t ...more | |
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| SA Book & Challen...: Know Your Author | 23 | 73 | Oct 30, 2014 03:49AM | |
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Alejandra wrote: "If I may, Jenna Le, finding you so randomly while updating the bookshelves has made my first week in goodreads. I came across your comment on Plath's 'Drawings' and couldn't take my eyes off of you..."Thanks so much for reaching out with these kind words, Alejandra! And thanks for your interest in Six Rivers and Manatee Lagoon. Happy to be your Goodreads friend.
If I may, Jenna Le, finding you so randomly while updating the bookshelves has made my first week in goodreads. I came across your comment on Plath's 'Drawings' and couldn't take my eyes off of your distinctly thoughtful and enlightened style, from that comment on and on and on. Wow, such a (surgical) precision choosing words, I thought. And then, I read your bio: a B.A. in math and an M.D. and practices in NYC. Just like that, my left brow raises in awe -doesn't happen that often. Thank you for accepting my request :) I really look forward to reading 'Manatee Lagoon' and 'Six Rivers', will let you know when I do!
Regards from Spain,
Alejandra
Dec 26, 2015 02:37PM · flag