Jessica

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Jessica is Currently Reading

Jessica is currently reading

The Professor's House

by Willa Cather

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Jan 25, 2026 06:05PM

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The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)

by Sally Hepworth (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 17, 2026 07:59AM

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Ink and Bone (The Great Library, #1)

by Rachel Caine

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Jessica’s Notes & Highlights

Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

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It was a beautiful storm, self-contained as storms often are, hunched far out over the vast water like a blob of blue ink, but it stalled in the middle distance and time just slipped away.

Jessica’s Quotes

“No one is ever just one thing.”
― Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles

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“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

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“This new male generation, Yusef thought, with its power-bar lunches, vibrating pocket gadgets, and diaper-changing skills, had no sense of architectural aesthetics.”
― Susanne Pari, In the Time of our History

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