Author: jessicareadsmanybooks
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More Adventures with Jess Gabriel – A Place Like This Review
Book Review: A Place Like This by Cari Scribner Jess Gabriel is figuring out life as a single woman in her fifties. As a follow-up to A Girl Like You, author Cari Scribner takes us alongside Jess as she wonders what could have been if one of her two marriages had worked out, as she…
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What I Read This Week: March 6 to March 12
This week was a continuation of clearing my to-be-read shelves. Two of the three books I read will stay in my collection, and one will be added to the donate pile. All in all, not a bad week of reading! Final Girls by Riley Sager Final Girls is Riley Sager’s first novel and my third…
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Quick Reviews from My Shelves
As part of my challenge to clear my shelves this year, I’m reading to many of my backlist books–those that have been sitting on my shelves for years with the promise of being read someday. February 2023 was a big month of checking off to-be-read books from my shelves, particularly for books that are recognized…
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Seven Days in June with Eva and Shane
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams – A Five-Star Book Review “I wish you the most brilliant, weird, and wonderful things, every day of the world.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June (pg. 113) This might be one of my all-time favorite book quotations now, and it encapsulates everything I feel about Seven Days…
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Six Years Later… Grieving My Dad and How It’s Changed
Friday marked the sixth anniversary of my dad’s death. In many ways, I’ve defined the past six years by his absence. While he would have hated the term “daddy’s girl,” I was definitely that. I’m the youngest child (by a lot), and I spent a lot of time with Dad. We had similar interests; he…
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