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Jessica Woodbury

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

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One reader on getting through the Ramona Quimby books with her kids for the first time.

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Check out Goodreads' new look, and get updates on the changes!

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Beach Music by Pat Conroy was the first modern adult novel I remember reading. I was a teenager, and I’d ...

5 Books to Watch For in February

In some industries, not much awesome new stuff happens in winter. But not in books! February may be the coldest ...

Hey, Audiobooks, That’s Not What Women Sound Like

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

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