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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum is amazingly intriguing so far! #history #booksky

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

At least, in the midst of insanity, people are pretty hilarious!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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.

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Me too! It was so lovely. I read the whole thing on a flight. 😍 ✈️

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Super super cute!! Nicely difficult clues (well for my 11yo, not me, haha) and fun Miami setting. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Saaaame. I get so tired of the “are you just skimming?” or suspicious “HOW do you read so many books?” messages on Insta. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Fast readers unite! Haha.

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Yayayayayay!! I’m reading When the Moon Hits Your Eye. 😍 #booksky #johnscalzi

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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!)

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

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

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Way to go, T-Town! I was there last weekend, wish it had coincided with this. 😍

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I preordered it bc I’m impatient! I hope your library hold comes in quickly. 🙂

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Four more days till I get When the Moon Hits Your Eye by @jscalzi. *sighs impatiently* #booksky #scifi

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Just finished Sunrise on the Reaping. Am now destroyed. 😭 #booksky

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today I’m writing about when change is both good AND hard. open.substack.com/pub/howjessi...

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When change is both good and hard

(Thoughts on the new job)

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This panel is the motivation I didn’t know I needed. 🔥 #resistance #booksky

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

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

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It’s a beautiful day at the Tucson Festival of Books! #booksky #tfob

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Good morning from #Flagstaff, Arizona! I just finished book number six of March. #booksky

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

But am getting so annoyed at that one Grand Canyon traffic shot getting shared over and over. Sigh. I guess I want people’s protests to be accurate? 🤦🏼‍♀️ 2/ 🧵 #grandcanyon #nps

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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/ 🧵

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Aaaarggghhh. I need people to read faster. 🥺🥺 #oathbound #booksky

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Me: Why do J (11) and I have the same roller coaster face? E (14): I’m pretty sure you just have the same face… in general. 😂

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Front row for Fantasmic! Occupying ourselves with beignets while we wait for the show to start. #disneyland

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Yes we have a family audiobook downloaded for the Disney drive! My 11yo is ADAMANT we all have to listen to Fablehaven together. 😂 And then commute will only be 10-15 min, but it’s true - that can add up!

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Well this particular month was extra high because I had about 16 hours on planes alone. Read a whole book on each of my 5 flights. 😂 In general, I’m a very fast reader, and I also listen to audiobooks while cooking, etc.

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I read 25 books in February! But in March, our family is going to Disney and then I immediately start a new job, so I think my numbers will go way down. 😁 #booksky

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Snow day activities: Noel: 6’4” Me: 5’5 & 1/2” E: 5’4 & 3/8” Ju: 5’4 & 2/8” So I still have just over an inch on the kids! And I am apparently only 10.5 inches shorter than my husband. Thought it was 11. 😂

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Good job! I audiobooked while making dinner. 😁

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Time to stop scrolling and start reading. #booksky

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Laissez les bons temps rouler! Like, literally please. We all need good times in the current hellscape. Eating piles of pancakes with my children and husband was a good reminder of that. 💜💚💛

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Perks of early flights I guess! Switched out of my seat to my own row 🥳

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I found this chicken rock, which is from Fidalgo Island, WA at Bunker Hill in Boston, MA today. Tmrw I’m flying to VA for two days, and then Tues I’m flying home to AZ. Where the cluck should I leave the chicken?? #rocksky

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Thank you! The weather really has been quite cooperative. I don’t mind the cold at all, and it only rained on me maybe 12 min total. 😁 And that was balanced by the delight in being somewhere blue! 💙

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

What a weird time for a first visit to Boston. I’m so sad about the future of the country, yet happy to be see the history. But- an encouraging moment: the sign says “Boston Common, founded 1634. Michelle Wu, Mayor.” And the founding fathers never would have imagined a woman of color leading!

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Y’allllll the Gardner did not disappoint today!!! 😍😍 #isgm

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

*ahem* I liked the Rom-Commers a lot better than this one 🫣🫣

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Jessica Howard @howjessicareads.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I appreciated this sign at the entrance of my Kohl’s today! #dei

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