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Jackie
Jackie is starting Accidentally Yours
Hoping this is as good as the one they did for the first Improbable Meet Cute collection, The Exception to the Rule. I need something to pull me out of a serious reading slump. 🤞
Jan 22, 2026 04:32PM Add a comment
Accidentally Yours

Jackie
Jackie is 35% done with When the Moon Hits Your Eye
"Is Gutter a first or last name?"
"It's a verb."
. . .

"Don't look at me," Gutter said to McCarthy. "This is your shit. I'm just here to scare people."
[Gutter knows the difference between Pawwarmesan and Pecorino Romano]
"You don't even like cheese," McCarthy said to [Gutter].
"I watch YouTube cooking videos to relax," Gutter said.
"You are fascinating," Bostwick said to him.

😂
Dec 28, 2025 01:30PM Add a comment
When the Moon Hits Your Eye

Jackie
Jackie is 21% done with When the Moon Hits Your Eye
Pour one out for the reference to Stephen Colbert having a show. 😢

Also, the timeline of days and who knows what when is starting to feel a little screwy. Maybe because there's obviously been multiple press conferences, but the characters just keep saying things like "the astronauts' press conference", but it seems pretty obvious technical information isn't the point of this story, so [blows raspberry].
Dec 21, 2025 02:33PM Add a comment
When the Moon Hits Your Eye

Jackie
Jackie is 13% done with When the Moon Hits Your Eye
The banter between Clyde, Alton, and Dave is cracking me up.
Dec 20, 2025 04:59PM Add a comment
When the Moon Hits Your Eye

Jackie
Jackie is 33% done with The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1)
Is it really going to be as simple as Ithicana has been giving Maridrina food, and Maridrina's sovereigns have been withholding it from their own citizens for a century to foment and justify war?
Nov 08, 2025 11:55AM Add a comment
The Bridge Kingdom (The Bridge Kingdom, #1)

Jackie
Jackie is 60% done with Last Chance to Save the World (Chaotic Orbits, #3)
And there's the red telephone. ☎️ Finally
Oct 14, 2025 08:48AM Add a comment
Last Chance to Save the World (Chaotic Orbits, #3)

Jackie
Jackie is 26% done with Last Chance to Save the World (Chaotic Orbits, #3)
*grumbles in English major/proofreader* The 16 or 1700s is not the middle of the 20th century.
Oct 05, 2025 03:25PM Add a comment
Last Chance to Save the World (Chaotic Orbits, #3)

Jackie
Jackie is 26% done with How to Steal a Galaxy (Chaotic Orbits #2)
He watches me a moment, and I want to ask. I want to know. What do you see?
But it's not fun if he just tells me.


That last sentence, I think, exemplifies the issues I have with the story so far as and Ada as a narrator. I like cat and mouse, but the characters do have to talk at some point. Especially if you want us to buy a romance between them. I don't care if you want to claim it's a slow burn.
Sep 19, 2025 05:21PM Add a comment
How to Steal a Galaxy (Chaotic Orbits #2)

Jackie
Jackie is 39% done with Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
I know no one can live forever. I don't want to live forever. But I hate the "only death gives life meaning" argument. Almost as much as I HATE the "you cannot know joy without pain" argument.
Jul 28, 2025 05:38PM Add a comment
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Jackie
Jackie is 62% done with Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)
You saw Bono following you last night. The note is on the back of the upir article (I was right, thank you) HE gave you, and you think Crest is the bad guy?

I didn't trust him either, Kate, but even I can put 2 and 2 together to get 4.
Jul 19, 2025 04:41PM Add a comment
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

Jackie
Jackie is 23% done with Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Yes, I've only read 130 pgs in 2.5 weeks. It's very slow so far; Schwab seems a little too enamored with her own prose, but I'm not ready to give up on her yet.

The question keeping me reading is - did Lottie turn Alice, or did Sabine sneak in after she left? (I'm guessing the latter, for the record.)
Jul 05, 2025 03:28PM Add a comment
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Jackie
Jackie is 22% done with Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)
Listening to the Graphic Audio via Hoopla... I've sampled similar audios for a few other book series and found them to be trying too hard, but I like this one so far. Quite the cast of characters. I don't trust Crest. Curran and Kate will be interesting to watch develop. I immediately like Saiman.

Why do I have a feeling the upir is going to come into play at some point?
Jun 26, 2025 02:32PM Add a comment
Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)

Jackie
Jackie is 58% done with Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
Your male friend helping you set up for a dick pic? Fine.

Your female cousin giving you advice? Fine, maybe even funny if it's done right.

Your cousin giving you said advice on speaker phone from the only bar in your small town and everyone wishing you good luck? SO CRINGE!

Seriously, how could anyone think "lol, cute" writing that?!
Apr 13, 2025 01:04PM Add a comment
Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

Jackie
Jackie is 31% done with Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
Gabby was a little gossipy and could be a tiny bit shallow. Jessica was moody and tended to be negative.
I loved them, but I saw them for what they were.


Why is this making me wonder if my friends say these kinds of things about me? 🫣
Apr 08, 2025 01:33PM Add a comment
Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

Jackie
Jackie is 30% done with Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
The instant regret of asking a doctor about what it would be like to live in the past, the Princess Bride callback...

Yeah, okay. This phone convo has me grinning.
Apr 08, 2025 12:13PM Add a comment
Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

Jackie
Jackie is starting Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
This author-and especially this series- is so beloved, let's see if I like her any more when things have more time to develop and b r e a t h e.
Apr 02, 2025 04:55PM Add a comment
Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

Jackie
Jackie is on page 5 of 81 of The Fall Risk (Valentine's Day #2)
So this book has a stalking subplot, and yet we're still referencing the lotion scene from Silence of the Lambs in the first 5 pages? Wow. Okay. 😐
Mar 24, 2025 03:32PM Add a comment
The Fall Risk (Valentine's Day #2)

Jackie
Jackie is 46% done with Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Imagine being sad that you're not on the chopping block. Oh, poor me, I can't die. Fucking weird.

[Snorts again]
Mar 13, 2025 04:38PM Add a comment
Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Jackie
Jackie is 58% done with Maybe This Time
June's the type that has to say no in order to say yes... She has to see the negatives first before she can see any of the positives. She has to tell you all the ways that something is going to go wrong and be terrible, and she says them like they're an absolute certainty, but that's a good sign. That means she's really considering it. She has to know exactly why she's scared before she can be brave.
Mar 10, 2025 02:05PM Add a comment
Maybe This Time

Jackie
Jackie is 20% done with Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
It's really starting to bug me that the timeline between this and the last book is not clear- particularly with regard to how old everyone is. Because I'm pretty sure Cross and Scales should be near 30, but damn if they don't sound 20.

PS: I called it, thank you. Though I didn't guess Scales' connection to the emperor.
Mar 07, 2025 03:22PM Add a comment
Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Jackie
Jackie is 4% done with Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
Was Mr. Scales the child who killed Nick Senior? 👀🤔
Feb 17, 2025 10:27PM Add a comment
Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)

Jackie
Jackie is 58% done with Project Hail Mary
So as I sit with my Kindle open to this book on my lap, Ken Jennings and the writers of Jeopardy! inform me that Gene Rodenberry considers 40 Eridani A to be the planet Vulcan, according to Star Trek lore.

So Rocky and Spock are related. Cool. 🖖
Nov 27, 2024 01:54PM Add a comment
Project Hail Mary

Jackie
Jackie is 43% done with Project Hail Mary
Both times Rocky has referred to something by a number, I've figured out he meant the atomic number well before our main character did.

And to think I wondered if I would be smart enough for this book...
Nov 19, 2024 12:18PM Add a comment
Project Hail Mary

Jackie
Jackie is 22% done with Project Hail Mary
Shoutout to the Hohmann Transfer window.
Nov 14, 2024 12:04PM Add a comment
Project Hail Mary

Jackie
Jackie is 2% done with Project Hail Mary
Well, damn. What do you mean thinking the cube root of 8 is 2 instead of 2 X e^2-i-pi makes you not very smart?

Am I gonna be smart enough for this book?
Nov 07, 2024 03:22PM Add a comment
Project Hail Mary

Jackie
Jackie is 47% done with The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
She spells the dog's shedding hair away because she knows it annoys him.

These two might yet work some magic on me.
Oct 26, 2024 04:21PM Add a comment
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Jackie
Jackie is 43% done with The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Having Mika see Jamie come out of a lawyer's office and immediately assume he committed a crime is screaming "I'm a Quirky heroine!" a little too loudly for me. (Especially because it seems at odds with her characterization up to this point.) 🙄
Oct 26, 2024 01:46PM Add a comment
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Jackie
Jackie is 69% done with Slow Dance
Excuse me while I highlight the entirety of Ch52. (It's only 6 paragraphs long.)
Oct 06, 2024 02:08PM Add a comment
Slow Dance

Jackie
Jackie is 64% done with Slow Dance
Top Gun does not suck, Shiloh. Anthony Edwards has some great lines. Also young Val Kilmer.
Oct 05, 2024 04:08PM Add a comment
Slow Dance

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