Author: jessicareadsmanybooks
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How Journaling is Helping Me to Manage My Mental Health
Stating that I’m managing my mental health feels like I’m tempting fate. For years I have lived in fear of waiting for the other shoe to drop. I can point to examples of days when I’ve felt on top of the world with all the happiness, times when the depression and anxiety were just shadows…
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What I Read This Week: April 10 to April 16
This was a big week for reading, both physical and audiobooks. As I continue to clear my shelves, I checked five books off my to-be-read bookshelf! Here’s what I read from April 10 to 16, 2023. Snobs by Julian Fellowes Snobs has been on my shelf for at least four years, chosen because Julian Fellowes…
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The Power of the Girls
Five-Star Book Review: The Power by Naomi Alderman Do you ever pick up a book from your to-be-read stack and think, why did it take me so long to read this? Well, that was certainly the case for me when I read The Power by Naomi Alderman this week. This book caught my eye years…
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What I Read This Week: April 3 to April 9
Despite reading every day, I only finished one book for the week. Sometimes that’s just what happens. However, the good news is that I’m still tracking ahead to reach my goal of 100 books for the year and I’m continuing to read books from my to-be-read bookcase. Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple First,…
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Three Signs of Burnout
The last five months have been difficult. It started with stress headaches at the beginning of November 2022, a culmination of pushing too hard for too long and putting work stress above all else and heightening anxiety that grew by the day. Then, those stress headaches morphed into piercing migraines that bounced between my temples…
Bookish Brain 