Jo Besser

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Jo Besser

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Jo’s favorite books

Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining by Stephen King

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Crow by James O'Barr

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

Those Left Behind by Joss Whedon

On Writing by Stephen King

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch) by Caroll Spinney

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann

Home before Morning by Lynda Van Devanter

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Sunrise on the Re...

Jo Besser is currently reading

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

by Suzanne Collins

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Jo’s Quotes

Neil Gaiman

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

tags: book-lovers, book-quotes, books, bookworms, love-for-books

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The Half Assed Book Club — 2 members — last activity Mar 05, 2018 03:02PM
We read books. Half assedly.

2026 Reading Challenge

Jo Besser has read 42 of 80 books.

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Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, and Romance

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