HeyJaredJennifer Dines
Award-winning teacher…and recovering addict. See also: Writer. Mother.
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JENN’S BOOK CLUB, AUGUST 2026 (PART 2) (opens the original)
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It’s almost October, and I’m gonna ‘splain you something… (I’m reading a celebrity biography with the Ball-Arnaz family mentioned all over the place)...about why it’s almost October, and this little post about summer reading didn’t drop until now.Our 2026/2027 school year commenced September 10th, a mere seventeen days ago. It’s my twentieth year teaching, and I still find excitement in setting up my classroom, making seating charts, and getting to know my new crop of students through name games
JENN’S BOOK CLUB: AUGUST 2026 (PART 1) (opens the original)
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It was a queer, sultry summer…This, of course, is the opening of THE BELL JAR (1963). I did not re-read Sylvia Plath’s posthumous and absolutely essential novel in August, but this line came to mind often. A close family member landed in a mental hospital for three weeks, and I visited every other day, and it was hot, tedious, and depressing a lá THE BELL JAR. I did not want to die, but <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=college+girl+found+sylvia+pl
JENN'S BOOK CLUB: JULY 2026 (PART 2) (opens the original)
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When I was a kid, I had a pile of library books by bed (or, in the winter, by the sofa in front of the fireplace), and I just sailed through them. However, for the past fifteen years, in the style of my late grandmother, I have had a tv in my bedroom and a habit of watching 2-3 hours a night.But now my new summer thing is Libby audiobooks borrowed from the Boston Public Library PLUS a free game called Block Blast. I now am 2-3 hours, sometimes more, on audiobooks, and this stupid videogame that
JENN'S BOOK CLUB: JULY 2026 (PART ONE) (opens the original)
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THE LOVER BY MARGUERITE DURAS (1984)The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path. No line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true. There was no one.<di
JENN'S RE-READ CLUB: JUNE 2026 (opens the original)
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THE REREADS“To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends. I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.” ― C. S. LewisThanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input c
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