Author: jessicareadsmanybooks
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Celebration of Life with Steven Rowley
A Five-Star Book Review: The Celebrants by Steven Rowley Steven Rowley has been an auto-buy author for me since I read The Guncle back in 2021. (If you haven’t read that glorious book, stop right now and get yourself a copy. You must meet GUP. Read my review here.) His characters are complicated and well-developed,…
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What I Read This Week: July 24 to July 30
This week was a mixed bag of reading, with three books from my to-be-read bookcase complete. I’m pleased that I finished two Book of the Month backlist books — both of which I enjoyed — but another book that I’ve carried around for more years than I’d like to admit was a major disappointment. What…
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Visiting Camp Zero
5-Star Book Review: Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling Michelle Min Sterling’s debut novel, Camp Zero, gives a cold, often bleak look at a possible near-future world where oil has been outlawed and human beings must reckon with the aftermath of destroying nature for millennia. But beyond the descriptions of hurricanes and fires, devastated communities…
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What I Read This Week: July 16 to 23
I’m happy to say I had a good week of reading! Two audiobooks and three physical books total, and the majority of these were all winners. And, I had another win this week. Despite being overwhelmingly busy at work and feeling like crap one day, I got back into jogging and restarted my Couch to…
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What I’ve Been Reading: Catching Up
I’ve missed my weekly reading recaps lately because of travel, so here’s a catch-up post to give a summary of my recent reads—some of which have been great, some good, some ‘meh,’ and one memorable what-the-heck-did-I-just-read. My Most Recent Reads And so my catch-up is complete. July hasn’t started with a bang-up list of reading,…
Bookish Brain 