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Jessica is on page 63 of 384 of This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)
Anybody want to use the map from one city to navigate a different one with me
Dec 30, 2025 03:17PM 2 comments
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why It Matters)

Jessica
Jessica is on page 240 of 320 of Dykette
This book is making me come to a conclusion that I thought I was "too enlightened" to have, which is that butch/femme culture is conservative and regressive. :/ alas I think fetishizing gender roles can't be anything but
Dec 14, 2025 11:48PM Add a comment
Dykette

Jessica
Jessica is on page 142 of 320 of Dykette
I just don't find gender sexy...
Dec 04, 2025 10:59PM Add a comment
Dykette

Jessica
Jessica is on page 76 of 320 of Dykette
I wish I hadn't fead high femme camp antics before reading this, because I think this book is well written and uses the subjectivity of the MC as a fascinating lens. Unfortunately I hated the essay (it feels like the author is living an entirely parallel life to mine) and also the book is exhausting even if well written
Nov 29, 2025 10:40PM Add a comment
Dykette

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Jessica is 72% done with Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
I'm starting to 🤔 at some of the data here and there (saying GDP is majorly flawed because it doesn't include unpaid labor and then talking about the success of childcare programs in relation to the GDP gains they'd produce) but still... the kind of book that makes you want to grab "society" by the shoulders and shake it and cry, "why are we letting this happen??"
Nov 21, 2025 01:28PM Add a comment
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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Jessica is 30% done with The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science #1)
Admittedly I have not partaken in middle grade fiction for quite awhile but not sure this is for me. I think every single character seems like a kate mckinnon sketch character. In fact, it all seems like a kate mckinnon sketch, which makes sense, but I'm not used to sketches going this long. The jokey asides per minute are so high compared to my usual fare (see first sentence).
Nov 16, 2025 02:37PM Add a comment
The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science (The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science #1)

Jessica
Jessica is 60% done with The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
sometimes spending too long in john green's head feels like spending too long in my own head... feels a bit navel gazey (for both of us) but still, I learn stuff!
Nov 11, 2025 10:35PM Add a comment
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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Jessica is 29% done with The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
I'm apparently working my way through the john green cinematic universe
Nov 07, 2025 08:01PM Add a comment
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Jessica
Jessica is on page 70 of 296 of Wolfskins and Togas: Lesbian and Gay Historical Fiction, 1870 to the Present
this is sooo interesting sarah waters you are so cool
Nov 07, 2025 05:25PM Add a comment
Wolfskins and Togas: Lesbian and Gay Historical Fiction, 1870 to the Present

Jessica
Jessica is 11% done with Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832
See I want to know the information, but the author likes doing history through the people involved and I can't for the life of me keep the names and bios straight in my mind. Maybe I should make a chart. I've never done that for a leisure read before but tbh maybe it'd be good practice for when I return to middlemarch shortly (which inspired me to read this book).
Aug 06, 2025 01:07PM Add a comment
Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832

Jessica
Jessica is on page 90 of 702 of Middlemarch
I thought I was doing well at remembering how everyone was related. I am no longer doing well at remembering how everyone is related.
Jul 13, 2025 06:51PM Add a comment
Middlemarch

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Jessica is on page 180 of 623 of Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
The author Loves wheat, is baffled but respectful that people like rice, and cannot for the life of him figure out why people eat corn unless they would starve to death otherwise. Very interesting so far but so very written by a French guy in the 60s, even though he is probably more respectful of non-western european life than many of his contemporaries.
May 10, 2025 12:20PM Add a comment
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life

Jessica
Jessica is on page 100 of 264 of The Mountain and the Wall
It was interesting but didn't keep my attention as the interest came in the form of enthnographic and political intrigue and not plot.
Mar 24, 2025 11:22PM Add a comment
The Mountain and the Wall

Jessica
Jessica is on page 125 of 288 of These Days
I had to return this because I got an email to my WORK ACCOUNT that this was overdue. Embarassing!! And frankly, I'm not too sad. Kind of giving The Pull of the Stars vibes, which was disappointing because I didn't care for TPOTS and I used up my patience for detail-driven, short-time period historical fiction on it.
Mar 24, 2025 11:21PM Add a comment
These Days

Jessica
Jessica is on page 45 of 264 of The Mountain and the Wall
I wish the glossary in the back was footnotes! I flip-flop so much and not all words are in the glossary so I never know when I need to flip or just go on context
Feb 05, 2025 11:37AM Add a comment
The Mountain and the Wall

Jessica
Jessica is on page 157 of 394 of The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
With Gentleman Jack starting where it did, it missed out on representing the batshit arrangement in 1821 where Anne was staying with Isabella Norcliffe at Langton Hall, where she was playing musical beds by sleeping with Isabella, Anne Belcome [sister to her long-term lover Mariana], and their houseguest, Miss Vallance. And then made them all jealous by flirting with Mariana's other sister who was also there.
Jan 28, 2025 11:17AM Add a comment
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Jessica
Jessica is on page 25 of 394 of The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
I wish this was complete with no redactions even for length but god. She's so cool
Jan 18, 2025 10:47PM Add a comment
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

Jessica
Jessica is on page 20 of 702 of Middlemarch
It feels hubristic to add this to my currently reading shelf at 20 pages in
Jan 12, 2025 07:33PM 1 comment
Middlemarch

Jessica
Jessica is on page 38 of 336 of Learned by Heart
This unfortunately seems to suffer from the same issue as the last emma donoghue book I read, which is that, in an effort to pass on the research she did about the subject, the historical facts kind of just get told to you instead of being integrated throughout... I miss Sarah Waters :(
Dec 30, 2024 12:27PM Add a comment
Learned by Heart

Jessica
Jessica is on page 130 of 295 of The Pull of the Stars
The main character seems too perfect and now-like and the explanations are very explain-y and not just integrated in... I'm intrigued but this is no sarah waters
Dec 15, 2024 04:35PM Add a comment
The Pull of the Stars

Jessica
Jessica is 94% done with Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
I thought it was getting off track but we're back on track, baby!
Dec 05, 2024 05:07PM Add a comment
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

Jessica
Jessica is 50% done with The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society
Unfortunately this is more boring and also more catholic than I'd like
Nov 29, 2024 06:27PM Add a comment
The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

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Jessica is 30% done with Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
The way this makes me want to go into economics/fiscal policy... time to dust off the calculus?? 😬
Nov 29, 2024 06:26PM Add a comment
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

Jessica
Jessica is on page 150 of 272 of Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
I wanted this to be more philosophical reflection and less reconstructed dialogues. I initially picked it up for therapeutic reasons, but because the DC USA is also the DA, so to speak, her work was pretty different. Also, her colleagues seem bad?? My colleagues and bosses were so much more competent and compassionate?? Maybe because they were women... lmao. Anyway I'll finish this.
Nov 24, 2024 06:49PM Add a comment
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

Jessica
Jessica is on page 197 of 564 of The Paying Guests
I do think Leonard should die, actually
Oct 22, 2024 03:57PM Add a comment
The Paying Guests

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