Jessica Zellers, now stellagarp.bsky.social Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Jessica provides editing, indexing, and coaching services for writers. Stella is her unpublished pseudonym. she/they

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, con’t: young Count Rostov has just returned home from the front. His reunion with his family brought me to tears. Tolstoy hits all the right emotional chords. Nicholas can do better than Sonya though. She has no personality. She’s just sort of there.
Paperback, 1993
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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Vivek H. Murthy
Weekly book talk for Saturday, July 8. What's everyone reading? In Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, Dr. Vivek Murthy uses his pulpit as the U.S. Surgeon General to focus not on heart disease or obesity or addiction but on loneliness. https://t.co/72Ntq2K1s5
Paperback, 2023
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A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
Weekly book talk for Saturday, April 22. What's everyone reading? A Man Called Ove--written by Fredrik Backman, translated from Swedish to English by Henning Koch, and narrated by J. K. Simmons--lives up to the hype. https://t.co/7i7wrRb6dS
Paperback, 2015
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Perilous Times
Thomas D. Lee
I didn't bother finishing the Shelf Awareness review of Perilous Times, by debut novelist @Thomas_D_Lee. Instead I immediately purchased the audiobook. I started listening today and it is amazing. Arthurian knights resurrected to fight England's greatest threat: climate change
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Blaze
Stephen King
Weekly book talk for Saturday, January 7. What's everyone reading? Having finished my re-read of Stephen King's collected works of short fiction, I'm catching up on the novels I've missed in recent years, starting with Blaze (2007). https://t.co/1HEAl1yR8S
Paperback, 2018
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