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Wife. Mom to singleton & twins. English Teacher turned Librarian. PhD Student. Romance Author. Home Gardener. She/Her.
Book 112 is Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross (Young Adult Fiction). A most satisfying conclusion to this romantic fantasy duology.
16.11.2025 02:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book 111 is Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross (Young Adult Fiction). I reread this one for Romance Book Club and still love it. It reads like WWI historical fiction with fantasy and a love story.
11.11.2025 00:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ohmygod I was talking to Twin B about his ashy knees and Twin A yelled at him: "You have a Black mama!" ☠️
09.11.2025 16:32 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My oldest boy is 8-years-old today!!! 🎉 He asked for a YES day. As you can see, he enjoyed it.
09.11.2025 00:31 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Book 110 is The Irresistible Urge To Fall For Your Enemy by Brigitte Knightley (Adult Fiction). I loved this clever, witty, enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn romantic fantasy. Really looking forward to the second book.
05.11.2025 22:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 109 is Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver (Adult Fiction). Another horror rom-com from this author. I liked the side characters the most, but also appreciated the love that developed between the two main characters.
02.11.2025 00:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 108 is Knot Her Shot by Ari Wright (Adult Fiction). Another very cutesy hockey Omegaverse romance.
27.10.2025 23:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 107 is Model Home by Rivers Solomon (Adult Fiction). I read this haunted house thriller for one of my book clubs. So many webs of generational trauma were woven into this family saga. This is going to stick with me for a long time.
25.10.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 106 is Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson (Poetry). I got to hear her speak in Philadelphia this summer, and she soothed my soul. Hoping to use this book in my dissertation. It is such a phenomenal exploration of Black girlhood.
21.10.2025 23:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 105 is Garron Park by Nordika Night (Adult Fiction). A rough and rugged enemies-to-lovers. Took me a while to get through all the angst in this one.
21.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 104 is Soundtrack by Jason Reynolds (Young Adult Fiction). Get this book for the music, the full cast, the music, the sound effects, the music, the found family, the music, the struggles of a boy on the brink of adulthood, the music...
21.10.2025 03:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 103 is The Intentions of Thunder by Patricia Smith (Poetry). The inside of this book is just as beautiful as the cover. These poems gutted me and put me back together. Even if you don't usually read poetry, pick this one up. Also, I just saw it's a finalist for the National Book Award.
19.10.2025 03:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you!!
17.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Read in Love: Centering Joy, Justice, and Black Girlhood was a success!
16.10.2025 22:41 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Book 102 is Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi (Adult Fiction). Another super cute witchy ghosty romcom.
15.10.2025 03:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hi my name is Jessica and my desk is always messy.
14.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book 101 is Love At First Fright by Nadia El-Fassi (Adult Fiction). I absolutely loved this spicy romp between a horror writer and the actor who stars in one of her movies, and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved the ghosty side story.
11.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 100 is Thunder Thighs by Evie Mitchell (Adult Fiction). A short and steamy love story with a small-town island setting.
07.10.2025 22:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 99 is Nero by S. J. Tilly (Adult Fiction). I thought this Mafia romance was just okay. The story was interesting, but there were plot holes I couldn't get past.
07.10.2025 01:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 98 is Leave Me Behind by K. M. Moronova (Adult Fiction). This felt like a return to the Dark Romances I read 15 years ago. It was VERY intense and surprisingly sweet.
06.10.2025 02:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 97 is Haunted Ever After by Jen DeLuca (Adult Fiction). A pretty cute ghosty romance in small-town Florida.
30.09.2025 23:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh I don't. I laugh A LOT.
28.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Twin B has started calling me sir and it's hilarious.
"What are you cooking, sir?"
"Sir! I peed on the potty!"
"I like your pretty pink dress, sir."
One of these days I'm going to answer the "what do you do all day?" question with a series of day-in-the-life video diaries but today is not that day.
04.09.2025 22:26 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Book 93 is A Love Most Fatal by Kath Richards (Adult Fiction). I absolutely loved this Mafia rom-com where she's the criminal boss and he's the unassuming school teacher.
01.09.2025 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Okay but why are you so sweet? 😭
Thank you for letting me share (virtual) space with you. I could listen to you talk about poetry all day.
Book 92 is Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (Poetry). I read this for the first time 4 years ago and just reread it. It is a soul-crushing, heartwarming, hopeful, and sometimes humorous collection of poems that I think every Black woman should read, more than once if possible.
30.08.2025 13:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And here I was thinking the most popular posts among my white friends today would be about pumpkin spice lattes.
26.08.2025 23:19 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jessica wearing a green and white tennis outfit and white tennis shoes
Jessica wearing a green and white tennis outfit, white tennis shoes, black and yellow purse, and sunglasses
My friends are about to take me to brunch to celebrate my birthday and I look cute as hell.
23.08.2025 15:38 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Book 91 is Mafia Target by Mila Finelli (Adult Fiction). An assassin falls for his mafia target.
20.08.2025 21:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
