Long Story Short: Choke

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So I renewed my library card, and I paid my $12 fine. I also checked out a couple of books from the library. One of them, Choke by Chuck Palahniuk. Chuck Palahniuk although most known for his novel Fight Club, I didn’t find that book in my library, instead I found this one. I guess what drew me towards this book was remembering that my sophomore English teacher had book recommendations every Tuesday and recommended this one. Or maybe I don’t even remember what book she exactly recommended and I read the back cover and thought “yeah, I could get into this.”

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Long Story Short: New Segment

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Looking through my column, I noticed that all of the books I’ve talked about so far are ones that I had recently read and then wrote about. And I’ll keep it like that, but I want to try something different; think of it as a new segment. I’ll post about a bunch of books I have read with a short summary about each one. Hopefully, because these are books I’ve already read, it will make this column of mine more consistent, and you won’t have to wait around for me to finish a brand new book. Continue reading

Ganderings Into Fictitious Thrillers (G.I.F.T.): My Salutations

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I am not the average reader, who flips through the monotonous motions of reading a novel page by page. I am one who has habituated herself to reading novels, as one would read an arabic book. Regardless of the spoilers clouding my head, I am determined to re-read books (after skimpily skimming through them) while jumping to conclusions, piecing together the protagonists’ future with their past and present actions. I am not crazy. Continue reading

Jenn’s Jams ♪: First Original Song (In Progress)

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Hi everyone! Guess what? I have exciting news! I’m almost done with my first original song! I haven’t been posting very often because I’ve been working on a big project: writing and recording my own song. It’s been taking up a lot of my time, so I haven’t been able to catch everyone up on how it’s been going. That’s why today, I’m going to walk you through what I’ve done since the very beginning. Continue reading

Hot Topics: Goodbye

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Hello, readers! Well, hello and goodbye. That’s right, this column is (choking back tears as I write) coming to an end. Although our time has been brief, I can happily say that we’ve had some laughs, we’ve had some tears, and we’ve had some pop culture analysis (emphasis on the last one). Continue reading