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Jess
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A Chicago based storyteller. Actor. Photographer. Writer. Reader. 📚🌻

AStoryCollector on both StoryGraph and Fable.
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@durbin.senate.gov

You are certainly not serving me, my family, or my community.

I had a group of folks calling your offices all week, and no one was able to speak with an aide. You don’t even give your constituents the opportunity to leave a voicemail.
Screen shot of Dick Durbin’s page. He writes Serving the people of Illinois. I crossed out the word “serving” with red.
March 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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6 books! Quite the month of reading.
Still thinking about Intermezzo. Might change my rating…
And then I remember rating is arbitrary and dumb. My least favorite bookish thing.
Graphic showing the six books I read in January. The Book of Doors, The Nickel Boys, Iron Flame, Onyx Storm, On Tyranny (the graphic edition), and Intermezzo.
February 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Cute black dog lying on a pillow.
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Oh thank god I’m done:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
20/20
Cover of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.
December 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
19/20
Cover of Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden.
December 14, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
18/20
Cover of Babel by RF Kuang.
December 13, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
17/20
The cover of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.
December 13, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
16/20
The cover of Trust by Hernan Diaz
December 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
15/20
The cover of The Liar’s Knot by MA CARRICK.
December 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
14/20
The cover of The Will of the Many by James Islington.
December 13, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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I got behind this week!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
13/20
The Cover of The Giver by Lois Lowry
December 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
12/20
Cover of Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
December 7, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
11/20
Cover of “Project Hail Mary” by Andy Weir
December 5, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
10/20
Cover of Coming Home by Rosamund Pilcher.
December 3, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
9/20
Cover of They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
December 3, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
8/20
Cover of 11/22/63 by Stephen King. The cover features a picture of a newspaper that has an article titled “JFK Slain in Dallas, LBJ Takes Oath” with an image of JFK and Jackie sitting in the back of the convertible.
December 1, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
7/20
Cover of I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. Jeanette standing on a pink background holding a pink urn.
November 30, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
6/20
Cover for The Dutch House by Ann Patchett.
November 29, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
5/20
Cover of Network Effect by Martha Wells, A Murderbot novel.
November 28, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
4/20
Cover of In the Hand of the Hoddess by Tamora Pierce.
November 27, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
3/20
An image of the book Say Nothing: A true story of murder and memory in. Orthern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.
November 27, 2024 at 8:01 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
2/20
Cover of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Golden Yeow background with a blurry figure of a spinning girl with brown hair and a blue dress.
November 25, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
1/20
Cover of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke.
November 24, 2024 at 4:46 PM