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Jessica Howard
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Reader, baker, big ol’ nerd.
Host of #midcenturybookclub on insta.
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum is amazingly intriguing so far! #history #booksky
April 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
At least, in the midst of insanity, people are pretty hilarious!
April 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.
April 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
March in review! #booksky
April 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This morning I finished book no. 20 of March.

Definitely way better than I expected in a month with a new job. But I’ve been reading tons after I get home from work (instead of doomscrolling), yay! #booksky
March 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
60% done with my ARC of A Death on Corfu, and loving it! Fin-de-siècle, proper young English widow gets drawn into the murder of another family’s maid. #booksky #mysterybooks
March 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Had to start a second template for March, since strangely everyone’s templates seem to stop at 16 books. 🤔

I guess if I’m going to keep avoiding reality this hard, I’m going to need to start making my own templates!

#booksky #amreading
March 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yayayayayay!! I’m reading When the Moon Hits Your Eye. 😍 #booksky #johnscalzi
March 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I love Rick Steves! #booksky #audiobook
March 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Explain yourself in 5 hobbies:

•reading
•talking about reading
•baking
•genealogy
•vacation planning

(Bc yes, I go on vacation a lot, but I also plan at least 3x more vacations that I don’t actually take!)
Explain yourself in 5 hobbies:
•Reading
•Buying books
•Crocheting
•Finding new hobbies
•Abandoning new hobbies
March 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Hi yes I did start Sunrise on the Realing on Thursday, and have consumed all 5 Hunger Games books since then. This is fine. It’s definitely normal to read 5 books in 3 days. Yep.
#thehungergames #booksky
March 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Way to go, T-Town! I was there last weekend, wish it had coincided with this. 😍
Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Four more days till I get When the Moon Hits Your Eye by @jscalzi.

*sighs impatiently*

#booksky #scifi
March 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Just finished Sunrise on the Reaping.

Am now destroyed. 😭

#booksky
March 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Today I’m writing about when change is both good AND hard.

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When change is both good and hard
(Thoughts on the new job)
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March 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I made two loaves of Irish soda bread, and after dinner my 11yo said “I’m so full I have to lie down”.

I think I got it right. 😂☘️

#stpatricksday
March 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The authors I’ve seen today at #TFOB : Luis Alberto Urrea, Lisa Genova, Matt Mendez, Libba Bray, Nic Stone, Nnedi Okorafor, Mateo Askaripour, Pemi Agouda, Sandra Brown, Casey McQuiston, Rachel Howzell Hall.

Another really wonderful day! #booksky
March 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This panel is the motivation I didn’t know I needed. 🔥
#resistance #booksky
March 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Authors I’ve heard speak today:

Craig Johnson, William Kent Krueger, Tess Gerritsen, Megan Miranda, Sandra Brown, Kimberly Lemming, Ali Hazelwood, Penny Reid, Suzanne Scanlon, Sarah LaBrie, Sadie Dingfelder.

#tfob #booksky
March 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It’s a beautiful day at the Tucson Festival of Books!
#booksky #tfob
March 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Good morning from #Flagstaff, Arizona!

I just finished book number six of March. #booksky
March 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
As someone who lives about an hour from the Grand Canyon… the entrance almost always looks like that after 10am.

I am absolutely gutted by the gutting of the NPS. Bought a “support our parks” shirt at Jamestown last week! 1/ 🧵
March 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Reading Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie while I rearrange my furniture on this blizzardy afternoon.

(Yes, it snows in northern Arizona. Accumulating at 2-3 inches an hour right now!)

#agathachristie #booksky #flagstaffaz
March 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Aaaarggghhh. I need people to read faster. 🥺🥺 #oathbound #booksky
March 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM