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Jess is Currently Reading

Jess is currently reading

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

by V.E. Schwab

bookshelves: 2026, fiction, supernatural, currently-reading

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Jun 24, 2026 08:34AM

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Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

by Jeff Hiller (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2026, audiobooks, memoir, nonfiction, currently-reading

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Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)

by Suzanne Collins

bookshelves: currently-reading, 2026, fiction-ya, dystopia

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Jess’s Quotes

“I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.”

“Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.”

“So does mental illness.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

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“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

124 likes

“I'll eat you up I love you so.”
― Maurice Sendak

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“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

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Cannonball Read is an annual, memorial book challenge to read and review 52, 26, or 13 books in a year, all while fundraising for the American Cancer ...more

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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

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Are you a writer looking for an editor or proofreader? Are you an editor looking for publishing experience? This is the place to make contact.

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