Jessie Weaver

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Jessie’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (263)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1790)
did-not-finish‎ (71)
kids‎ (394)
fiction‎ (800)
ya‎ (213)
nonfiction‎ (169)
audiobooks‎ (159)
weneeddiversebooks‎ (123)
hannah-summer-2024‎ (106)
memoir‎ (100)

historical-fiction‎ (99)
supernatural‎ (89)
christian-fiction‎ (88)
middle-grade‎ (84)
fantasy‎ (63)
romance‎ (61)
christianity‎ (56)
hannah-summer-2023‎ (48)
favorites‎ (46)
mystery‎ (46)
hannah-summer-2022‎ (41)
bloggers‎ (39)

david-summer-2016‎ (38)
libbie-summer-2015‎ (35)
mommy-libbie-read-alouds‎ (34)
david-summer-2017‎ (33)
joshua-summer-2018‎ (33)
own-it‎ (33)
classics‎ (31)
food-writing‎ (31)
libbie-summer-2016‎ (30)
parenting‎ (28)
scifi‎ (27)
hannah-summer-2025‎ (22)

libbie-summer-2017‎ (21)
david-summer-2018‎ (16)
hannah-books‎ (14)
joshua-summer-20‎ (13)
short-stories‎ (13)
graphic-novels‎ (11)
read-to-boys‎ (11)
poetry‎ (9)
amish-fiction‎ (6)
horror‎ (4)
mental-health‎ (4)
thriller‎ (4)

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Jessie’s Notes & Highlights

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

3 highlights

she understood that if you wanted someone to keep loving you, you couldn’t ask them to bear all of your burdens, couldn’t risk letting them see all of who you were. No one really wanted to know another person that well.

Peace Like a River: A Novel

by Leif Enger

1 highlight
How to Read a Book

by Monica Wood

4 highlights

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Jessie’s Quotes

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“The things a mother does well are always invisible compared to the things she does badly.”
― Amy Wilson, When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

6 likes

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

tags: happiness

299 likes

“I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.”
― Maeve Binchy

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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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