Jessica Malone Grider
@mrs_g_rider
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Wife. Mom to singleton & twins. English Teacher turned Librarian. Romance Author. Home Gardener. She/Her.
Kansas City, MO
Joined June 2011
Book 1 is Silk & Steel by Ariana Nash (Adult Fiction). An epic fantasy enemies-to-lovers M/M romance between an elf and a dragon. Happy 2025!
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Book 86 is My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan (Adult Fiction). I picked this one up because the movie releases on Friday. An American college student spends a year in Oxford and falls in love. Much more emotional than I was expecting.
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I paused when I read, "my kids and I got waved into the next one" because my husband would never. He would never separate from me and our kids. He would never leave me to struggle through that.
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Someone get Charlaine Harris on the line.
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Book 85 is Under Loch and Key by Lana Ferguson (Adult Fiction). A romcom with some interesting historical family lore and. a Loch Ness Monster.
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Her: I just really don't want an epidural. I want to have a natural birth. Me: Why's that?.Her: I just don't like putting things in my body, like I don't even really like taking Tylenol for a headache. Chat, she was eating a hot dog and drinking a Pepsi when she said this to me.
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My answer to the "what radicalized you" question is reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair when I was 11-years-old. It's been 26 years and I'm still traumatized and think about it often.
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1. Yes.2. I had an appointment every week in the third trimester of my last pregnancy. Not ideal for a jury. 3. Where?.
@thecavemommy @THEREALranchy08 Does being pregnant impair your ability to think? Listen? Walk? Talk? Then it’s not an excuse to not have jury duty. Welcome to citizenship. Don’t like it, you know where to go.
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This is how my friend found out her husband cheated on her with someone in his PhD cohort.
Recently, I've been digging up strangers' PhD dissertations to read the acknowledgment section. Couple pages of the most sincere and romantic text you'll find about what makes them tick.Highly recommend if you want a feel-good read that doesn't require a functional attention span.
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RT @nlbmprez: REMINDER: The @NLBMuseumKC is closed today (Sunday, July 27) for a starring role in the hit show Ted Lasso! Big thanks to @ja….
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RT @shut_thefu_: Now that I actually have a comfortable amount of money, I can say that it does indeed buy happiness. The guilt free occasi….
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Book 84 is Duke of Luhst by Mariah Stone (Adult Fiction). A rake and a spinster make a bet that lasts the entirety of a 30-day house party in the country. I'm loving this regency series.
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RT @NWSKansasCity: Conditions are shaping up that we will have a multi-hazard event tonight. Storms will develop after 4 PM in E. KS, conti….
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This book series was such an integral part of my journey as a romance reader, but I never saw the movie.
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My fellow millennial Black girls who grew up suburb-adjacent, this one is for us!.
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Book 83 is Run For the Hills by Kevin Wilson (Adult Fiction). A man keeps creating little families then leaving them behind and the siblings find each other. Kind of hilarious and kind of sad.
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RT @themultiplemom: I am not letting racism slide in the name of nostalgia. Not in this economy. Not under this administration. Not in this….
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go another semester, maybe year." I was shocked and asked him how he was paying for it (assuming he likely didn't have scholarships at that point). He said "Just more loans. I owe so much now I've lost track." My brain immediately did a record scratch. I'm not marrying into that.
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I dated a guy in college who I REALLY liked and started considering a future with. At the end of his 5th year we were talking about graduation and he was like, "Oh I'm not graduating. There's a project I didn't finish and I'm just not ready to look for a job yet so I'm going to.
I ended a relationship because he went into massive amounts of debt for a fancy vehicle and didn’t see the problem with that. You have to be a better decision-maker if you’re going to lead a family.
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I can always smell an ear infection. With my oldest I kept trying to convince myself the smell wasn't real but when the twins came along, I had to accept I can scent out ear infections. It's bizarre but also how I know my Twin B has never had one because he's never had the smell.
I can smell when Oliver gets an ear infection and the doctors are like "no? Unless it's really bad?" But i literally have not been wrong once.
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Is. that not how you say it???.
pronouncing labubu the way yogi bear says hey boo-boo.
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