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Jess’s 2022 Year in Books
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Jess Riley
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I Once Was Lost ...
Last weekend my college roommates and I rented a house in Door County—I hadn’t seen two of them in over two years, and it was such a lovely reunion. I haven’t laughed that hard in months…maybe years. I love these amazing women, and I’m so grateful we met (nearly 30 years ago!)
We're down one due to Covid--boo!
We parted on Sunday, and the weather was mild enough that I decided to take a hike at Read more of this blog post »
We're down one due to Covid--boo!We parted on Sunday, and the weather was mild enough that I decided to take a hike at Read more of this blog post »
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"Utterly wonderful and enthralling and, I might add, beautifully edited. (I sent a copy to my 85-year-old mother for her birthday and she told me that as she neared the end, she purposefully read slower and slower because she didn't want it to end. "W"
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Best Fiction |
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"I finished this novel more than two months ago, and it still hasn't left me. And I still haven't found anything intelligent to say about it that hasn't already been said. It's extraordinarily powerful. Devastating. Illuminating. Authentic. Harrowing."
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"I read this novel when it was first published in 2018 and I was gobsmacked by how spectacular every moment was -- and by the rich panorama Rebecca Makkah created of Chicago in the 1980s and Paris in 2015.
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"This will come across as hyperbolic, but I really believe Rebecca Makkai has written The Great American Novel about the ‘80s AIDS epidemic. In this sweeping, brilliant book, she has masterfully captured what it must have been like to endure the terro"
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“It’s only physical, she reminded herself. Just lust. Some kind of twisted, mutual escape valve. And those physical things, with no love or respect or loyalty to bind and preserve them, had a short shelf life. They were limited-time offers. Three months, tops.”
― Mandatory Release
― Mandatory Release
“I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above sea level and eat a bowl of raisin bran every morning in its shadow.”
― Driving Sideways
― Driving Sideways
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| Challenge: 50 Books: Vivian's fifty in twenty ten - done! | 31 | 81 | Oct 12, 2010 11:29PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: Celebrating the Barcode Challenge | 201 | 137 | Sep 18, 2013 06:29AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: Spring 2013 Scavenger Challenge - Spring Cleaning | 304 | 147 | Oct 16, 2013 11:16PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: 2013 Countdown | 415 | 323 | Jan 14, 2014 06:52PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: The Language of Flowers Challenge | 313 | 170 | Mar 31, 2014 08:27PM |
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...June 10 to June 24, 2009... Julie Buxbaum will be answering any questions you may have about THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE, her second novel AFTER YOU, the ...more
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Hi Jess,No jokes about what made Milwaukie famous,
glad to have your friendship on Goodreads.
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Thanks for connecting as readerly friends. I'd like to invite you to read the first chapter of my new novel:http://forthemayqueen.blogspot.com/
Sincerely,
Kate (PS: I added your book to my "to read" list!)
Smiles,
Jeannie