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Words by Webb is a blog about writing, reading, baking and plants - with a little bit of who knows what thrown in for fun.
You can contact me at jodiwebb9@gmail.com


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Library
If you've read my blog for any amount of time you probably know that I LOVE my library. All libraries. I actually visit libraries on my vacations. You may think I'm crazy but have you ever been in a library that is a boat? I seem to have gotten off track. I was on my way to the library this Saturday to pick up the latest Janet Evanovich for my mom. As I walked down the sidewalk a man got out of a van and he was carrying a huge tray piled high with baked potatoes (I know this
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2 days ago3 min read


Review of The Restoration Garden
I keep saying I dislike dual timeline stories but I keep reading them. Of course I don't have much choice because I love historical fiction and dual timelines are everywhere! The writer in me is wondering...are dual timelines the best way to format historical fiction, the easiest way, the way most readers enjoy it? Why am I seeing so many books with dual timelines (or the occassional triple timelines!)? Ok, tiny rant over. Up next is - you guessed it - a historical fiction wi
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6 days ago3 min read


Banned Books Week
Not every book is my cup of tea. When my children were growing up there might have been books I didn't want my kids to read because of their age. But I looked at those as my reading choices and my parenting choices. It never even occurred to me to try and ban a book for an entire school district or community. Sadly, we seem to be living in opposite world now where books are banned wily-nilly, often for random reasons by people who haven't even read the whole book. My family w
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Oct 52 min read


The Me I Used to Be
Thanks to WOW blog tours for the chance to read my first Kristan Higgins book! Friendship, longstanding feuds, jealousy, love, grief, betrayal, guilt - this book has it all. You can read my review HERE and learn more about the book below. More About The Me I Used to Be Back in senior year, Audrey, Micah, Jasmine, and Beck were the Core Four: the lucky one, the beautiful one, the smart one, the sporty one. They had color-coded dreams, inside jokes, and a lifelong friendship th
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Oct 23 min read
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