Jessica Woodbury's professional life has taken her to prisons, classrooms, strip clubs, and her living room couch. After years as a Public Defender in the South, she now lives in Boston with her two small children. Cursed with a practical streak, she always wanted to pursue music or writing but instead majored in Biochemistry because it seemed like the appropriate thing to do. These days she does absolutely nothing with science or law and instead spends too much time oversharing on the internet. She has a soft spot for crime novels and unreliable narrators. And the strip club gig was totally as a lawyer, she swears. Blog: Don't Mind the Mess Twitter: jessicaesquire
Jessica advocates for some of her favorite under-the-radar gems of the last few year, including Sarong Party Girls by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.
With over 60 novels to choose from, here's some guidance on the best Agatha Christie books, including some suggested reading orders.
Chuck Palahniuk stories are dark, twisty, nihilistic, and shocking. Looking for more of the same? We rounded up some readalikes for fans of the author's work.
On the importance of Aunt Beast, and how she represented self-care in Madeleine L'Engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME.
A reader makes the argument for seeing the movie version of Annihilation before you read the book.
The internet is falling over itself about "Cat Person," a short story by Kristen Roupenian, featured in the New Yorker. Here's the low-down.
Take a look at this year's Goodreads Choice Award winners!
On the need to make space on the LGBTQ+ bookshelf for more than just books about violence, suffering, and loss.
Have you noticed how the "favorite books" sections of online dating profiles include almost exclusively male authors? We have.