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Jess is Currently Reading

Jess is currently reading

Good Spirits (Ghosted, #1)

by B.K. Borison (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: 2025, fiction, romance-contemporary, supernatural, currently-reading

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Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)

by Rebecca Yarros (Goodreads Author)

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Jess’s Quotes

“I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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