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Jackie Ferrari

suddenly all I read is (good) email

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, April 19, 2024

and romance and sci fi don’t worry there are books too

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Poking at books and then shopping instead

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, March 29, 2024

i don’t want to feel any feels so i can’t read any books

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Planning VACATION Reading!

By Jackie Ferrari / Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Do I take a lot of trips? I do! Do I take a lot of books? HECK YEAH

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But I don't DO…

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, March 1, 2024

[fill in book type blank here]

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How to read 50 (or more) books a year

By Jackie Ferrari / Thursday, February 15, 2024

Indulge your bookworm fantasies with these 12 strategies for adding more reading to your life

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When the reading slumps

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, February 2, 2024

I’m reading. But I’m just not feeling it.

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Starred Reads from 2023, Part Two gets even better

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, January 26, 2024

I’m crap at keeping my reading spreadsheet but I did manage to use the asterisk key.

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15 Books I starred in 2023 (not necessarily the best ones)

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, January 19, 2024

IMO Good reading experiences are better than “best books”. Part one of two

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unapologetically yours, KJ

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, January 5, 2024

some books and also some thoughts

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how to decode a book rec (even mine)

By Jackie Ferrari / Thursday, December 14, 2023

a few dirty little secrets of author life plus 4 fun holiday rom-com reads

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we all have our own ways of soothing ourselves

By Jackie Ferrari / Thursday, December 7, 2023

and mine may be… eccentric

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you get a book! and you get a book!

By Jackie Ferrari / Thursday, November 30, 2023

not the classy book list you maybe got from somebody else

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How to Survive a Holiday Family Gathering

By Jackie Ferrari / Monday, November 20, 2023

in which i wildly digress into a topic important to many humans this time of year

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for when you are feeling not quite the thing

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, November 3, 2023

three books

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it's villain week!

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, October 27, 2023

in which science fiction and Sam Bankman-Fried unexpectedly collide

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this book stomped my reading streak into the ground…

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, October 20, 2023

it was going so well, until it wasn’t.

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must be the season (to read about) the witch

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, October 13, 2023

if you do reels or TikTok at all that song will never leave you

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people (and these 4 books) are a good use of time

By Jackie Ferrari / Thursday, October 5, 2023

a small diversion into life musings and 4 books that transcended worries

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hey can i ask a favor?

By Jackie Ferrari / Tuesday, September 12, 2023

it’s not bad swear

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last chance to prove you adore me madly

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, September 8, 2023

you do don’t you? also you get a cool THING

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i know I'm not supposed to love this place but

By Jackie Ferrari / Wednesday, September 6, 2023

oh how I do.

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the first chapter of Playing the Witch Card!!!

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, August 25, 2023

I’ve been aching to share this one and now I can!

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you'll never read hist fic or regency romance the same way again

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, August 18, 2023

can a steamy regency change your entire perspective on women’s history? Maybe.

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the right number and kind of books for the trip

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, August 4, 2023

vacation reading planning is important

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a comfort read for all the former kids who were saved by books

By Jackie Ferrari / Thursday, July 27, 2023

oh, my. this one’s a snuggle

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i don't read horror except when I do…

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, July 21, 2023

a few books to brave–and why they’re safe, I swear

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can anyone still use the constraints of Austen's world?

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, July 14, 2023

there aren’t many societal limits on behavior any more–except here

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7/7 the all-important airplane book

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, July 7, 2023

picking a book for a flight is just different

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books that make me want to do the thing

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, June 30, 2023

reading about cleaning, writing or getting organized is EXACTLY the same as doing it, right?

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a book Instagram doesn't think you're interested in

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, June 23, 2023

and some it thinks you are

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help! i want a book just like that one i just loved

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, June 9, 2023

read-alikes and weekend travel guarantees (and hey, welcome!)

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when genre is good it's very very good

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, June 2, 2023

a mystery for Austen-ites and a real ripped bodice

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If you love writers behaving badly

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, May 26, 2023

possibly my favorite trope–and the best book I’ve read yet this year

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for me and not for me

By Jackie Ferrari / Thursday, May 18, 2023

that is the question… that should help me decide if I should drop $28 on a hardback from an author I usually love!

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2 fun reads, 1 small triumph

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, May 12, 2023

I’m a fall BuzzBook!

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if you love the bookish life

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, May 5, 2023

Of Nina Hill… I have TWO recs for you!

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I bought 6… so far

By Jackie Ferrari / Thursday, April 27, 2023

future you called, they need a book to read and THERE IS A SALE

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letters and diaries as page-turners… why?

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, April 14, 2023

i don’t want to read your diary. Or your letters. But these I want to read…

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for the con artist junkies among you

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, April 7, 2023

if you binged Dirty John or Inventing Anna, I have a book for you

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judge my book by its cover… REVEALED!

By Jackie Ferrari / Saturday, April 1, 2023

purply darkness revealed… i’m gonna need to up my eyeliner game.

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feelings are hard and I'm not good at them…

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, March 24, 2023

I’ve just had the extremely strange experience of being happy when a book broke the spell I was under and revealed itself to be a book. I’d already begun an adversarial relationship with this book—How High We Go in the Dark, a novel in short stories about a pandemic that begins with the release of a virus through melting permafrost. I was lured in by the promise of black humor in the idea of an amusement park for plague-ridden children, […]

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One bonkers book

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, March 17, 2023

and a—kinda—Writers and Lovers read-alike

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double score!

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, March 10, 2023

two books I’d love to read again for the first time

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not everything has to be awful

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, March 3, 2023

it’s not all Very Serious Sad Literature, even when it’s about serious things in unfamiliar places

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don't be mean, and give your future self a present

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, February 17, 2023

maybe we don’t always have to call everyone out all the time

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books for both or neither

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, February 10, 2023

Whether you love Valentine’s Day or loathe it, I have a read for you

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While waiting for the tow truck…

By Jackie Ferrari / Saturday, February 4, 2023

what would 1990s KJ do?

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technically I do in fact have time to do all this, but I would rather read

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, January 27, 2023

First up today: me making a pretty typical me mistake. Next: a book that’s totally vibing with the view out my window right now and that I loved, plus one chock-full-of-weird-reading-experience—so skip down to that if that’s what you’re here for! Conceded that it was a long list. But I want to do—and be—a lot of things. I want to speak other languages fluently, to be able to draw the things I see and imagine, to stay connected with my […]

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I was afraid of this book, but I loved it.

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, January 20, 2023

It was fat and literary and difficult and daunting. But I finished it and now I’m eying all of its friends in the #tbr pile because I want more.

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Please just distract me with your glorious pages

By Jackie Ferrari / Friday, November 18, 2022

a serial book abandoner’s plea

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