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own‎ (713)
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aus-authors‎ (190)
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childrens‎ (105)
australian‎ (95)
favourites‎ (89)
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paranormal‎ (58)
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travel‎ (45)
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verse‎ (1)

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Jess is Currently Reading

Jess is currently reading

The Proof is in the Plants

by Simon Hill

bookshelves: currently-reading, adult, aus-authors, own

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Jun 29, 2026 03:24PM

Jess is currently reading

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

by Ryan Holiday (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: adult, non-fiction, own, philosophy, personal-development, self-help, spirituality, currently-reading

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read in December 2025

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Jan 03, 2026 04:16PM

Jess’s Quotes

“The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”
― Keri Hulme

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“That’s life. You’re always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you can see where they end. Maybe that’s why we as a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we’ll never have.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

388 likes

“Maybe it’s possible to have more than one home. Maybe it’s possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

244 likes

“We are all adventurers here, I suppose, and wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do. It is good to know that there remain wild corners of this dreadfully civilised world.”
― Robert Falcon Scott

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