Sign in with Facebook
Jessica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jessica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Jessica Pedrosa’s Followers (1)
363 books
|
14 friends
52 books
|
56 friends
699 books
|
22 friends
109 books
|
2 friends
1,403 books
|
8 friends
1,309 books
|
5 friends
26,012 books
|
3,655 friends
776 books
|
136 friends
More friends…
Jessica Pedrosa
Goodreads Author
Website
Member Since
September 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jess__press
|
WAVES
|
|
|
SCORCH BLUSH
|
|
|
DEATH SPROUTS
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Jessica’s Recent Updates
|
Jessica Pedrosa
wants to read
|
|
|
Jessica Pedrosa
started reading
Wild Dark Shore
by Charlotte McConaghy (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction |
|
|
Jessica Pedrosa
started reading
|
|
|
Jessica Pedrosa
rated a book liked it
|
|
|
Jessica Pedrosa
is now following Polly Florence's reviews
|
|
|
Jessica Pedrosa
is currently reading
|
|
|
Jessica Pedrosa
is currently reading
|
|
|
Jessica Pedrosa
started reading
|
|
|
Jessica Pedrosa
entered a giveaway
Catahoula Islands
by Vladimir Gandelman (Goodreads Author)
100 copies
available, ends on
January 15, 2026
Enter to win »
|
|
"This is my third Ernaux. I keep coming back because I am convinced I’m missing something. I’ll probably try another, but I’m disappointed again. It’s like she writes in order to rid the memory of saturation, putting her life through a sepia wash. Des"
Read more of this review »
|
|
“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
―
―
“One thing I have learned about attention is that certain forms of it are contagious. When you spend enough time with someone who pays close attention to something (if you were hanging out with me, it would be birds), you inevitably start to pay attention to some of the same things. I’ve also learned that patterns of attention—what we choose to notice and what we do not—are how we render reality for ourselves, and thus have a direct bearing on what we feel is possible at any given time. These aspects, taken together, suggest to me the revolutionary potential of taking back our attention. To capitalist logic, which thrives on myopia and dissatisfaction, there may indeed be something dangerous about something as pedestrian as doing nothing: escaping laterally toward each other, we might just find that everything we wanted is already here.”
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
― How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”
―
―
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 306862 members
— last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Comments (showing 1-2)
post a comment »
date
newest »
newest »
Ok, recommendation: I am reading "Beyond the Pale" by Elana Dykewomon for my Lesbian Literature class and it's basically the greatest thing ever. The book is this intense combination of midwifery, yiddishkeit, and immigration to America within this larger and super feminist emphasis on the relationships between the women (i.e. mother/daughter, midwife/teacher). Anyway, I am amazed that this book is not more well known (although I am not surprised that it isn't since anything "lesbian" gets marginalized in literature), and I think you'd really, really like it.
Thanks, I'll definitely check it out.