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A Year in Reading: Jason R Jimenez

I’m in the middle of Wuthering Heights as I write this, anxiously anticipating the greatest scene in all of English literature. You know the one. As I pass through what might be my fourth or fifth visit at the Heights, I wonder if it’s Emily or Charlotte I admire most. But then they’re both so wonderful. I can’t decide. My apologies to Anne whom I’ve yet to read. Thank god for these sisters though and their world to which I can escape the pre-apocalyptic nightmare of 2019.

Never one to shy from the cheerful thought of possible extinction, this year I slowly meandered through from , whom my best friend tells me writes great articles at , though I never read them because I find articles far too long for my Twitter-addicted eyeballs, except for the one about sound being “permanently” recorded with sand. On every page of is some criminally ignored fact—or warning—about the threat to humanity’s future on this planet. At the outset of the

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