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Jesse’s a-few-of-my-favorite-things shelf

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Friendly Young Ladies by Mary Renault

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker

The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James

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Jesse’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (412)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (859)
for-research-purposes‎ (193)
read-sections‎ (133)
queer-research‎ (89)
on-bookshelves-for-reference‎ (68)
a-few-of-my-favorite-things‎ (85)
women-writers‎ (466)
queer-lit‎ (352)
american-lit‎ (257)
queer-modernity‎ (208)

brit-and-irish-lit‎ (191)
literary-modernism‎ (185)
cinema‎ (170)
1930-s‎ (138)
queer-researching‎ (130)
1920-s‎ (124)
visual-arts‎ (118)
memoir-and-autobiography‎ (112)
french-lit‎ (103)
1950-s‎ (100)
20th-century-women‎ (100)
queer-history‎ (94)

queer-lives‎ (84)
1970-s‎ (82)
1960-s‎ (81)
authors-of-color‎ (80)
film-criticism‎ (79)
1940-s‎ (77)
queer-art‎ (77)
narrativity-and-form‎ (76)
left-bank-excursions‎ (75)
novellas-short-novels‎ (74)
poetry‎ (73)
contemporary‎ (71)

lit-crit‎ (68)
theory‎ (67)
european-and-russian-lit‎ (66)
1980-s‎ (65)
american-expats‎ (64)
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diaries-and-notebooks‎ (62)
film-and-lit-connections‎ (58)
film-theory‎ (58)
2010-s‎ (57)
art-history-and-criticism‎ (57)
formative‎ (55)

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Jesse’s Quotes

“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume Three, 1923-1928

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“To close read is to linger, to dally, to take pleasure in tarrying, and to hold out that these activities can allow us to look both hard and askance at the norm.”
― Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

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“These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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Jesse’s Groups

Queereaders — 20652 members — last activity 5 minutes ago
A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and supporters interested in fun and stimulating conversation about books, movies, art, ...more

The BURIED Book Club — 929 members — last activity Oct 09, 2025 06:06PM
TODAY BOOKS ARE NOT BURNED. THEY ARE BURIED. WE SHALL UNEARTH THEM.

Goodreads Librarians Group — 302636 members — last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

2015: The Year of Reading Women — 677 members — last activity Apr 01, 2020 04:01AM
Join us for a year of member-run group reads to make 2015 the year of reading women! Rules Members are free to create author threads by surname if th ...more

Virago Modern Classics — 403 members — last activity Dec 03, 2025 09:44AM
But once a woman stole the initiative, plundered the perquisites and took the lead, what happened to the globe? The fabric cracked [Daphne du Maurier] ...more

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