@jess_tholmer

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Big reader. Biracial elder millennial born on LiveJournal. MSW Student and Research Intern@UW. Vintage shop worker. Writer@ completelybooked.club.

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@jess_tholmer

Plus she/her/hers

Big reader. Biracial elder millennial born on LiveJournal. MSW Student and Research Intern@UW. Vintage shop worker. Writer@ completelybooked.club.

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This Year

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Mainly reads nonfiction books that are reflective, emotional, and informative. Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Currently Reading (4)

To-Read Pile (1305)

Currently reading (4)

Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship by Christine Ann Lawson

We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition by Kim Wilson, Maya Schenwar

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

How to Sew a Button: And Other Nifty Things Your Grandmother Knew by Erin Bried

Mainly reads nonfiction books that are reflective, emotional, and informative.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Read recently

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End by Alua Arthur

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys by Billy Crystal

To-Read Pile

Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential

Heba Gowayed
Before They Were Men: Essays on Manhood, Compassion, and What Went Wrong

Jacob Tobia
I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom

Shelly Oria

5 starreads

The Manicurist's Daughter by Susan Lieu

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

2025 Reading Goals

jess_tholmer has read 68 books this year.

Books

68/87 books

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68/87 books

78%

Seattle Summer Book Bingo 2025

Book Riot's Read Harder 2025

The StoryGraph's Onboarding Challenge 2025

completely booked's 2024 reading challenge

758

Five-Star Reads

275

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