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Jess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Jess Watkins’s Followers (89)
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Jess Watkins
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United Kingdom
Website
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January 2013
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Girl Meets Underworld (Girl Meets Underworld, #1)
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2013
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After Tomorrow Anthology
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2014
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As We Lie Dying
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2013
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The Curse of the Sea
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2015
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Review - Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (translator)
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Title: Butter
Author: Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (translator)
Pages: 448
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Release Date: 29th February 2024
Blurb from Goodreads:
There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists andmargarine.
Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in TokyoDetention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonelybusinessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her deliciou
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.”
― Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
― Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again." For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you.”
― Shiver
― Shiver
“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
― Shiver
― Shiver
“What do you eat?"
"Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.”
― Shiver
"Baby bunnies." She narrowed her eyes, so I grinned and said, "Adult bunnies, too. I'm an equal-opportunity bunny-eater.”
― Shiver
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
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