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Joy’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Joy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Joy E. Rancatore’s Followers (124)
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Joy E. Rancatore
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J.R.R. Tolkien, the Brontes, C.S. Lewis, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Ingall
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October 2010
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https://www.goodreads.com/joyerancatore
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Any Good Thing
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2019
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The Crux Anthology
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This Good Thing
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Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach To Find And Keep Your Writing Critique Partner
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Every Good Thing
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Animal Vignettes: True Stories of Friendship
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One Good Thing (Carolina's Legacy Collection Book 4)
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12 Months of Reading October 2025
Welcome to October’s 12 Months of Reading! Each month in 2025, I will host a different reading challenge category. These categories are broad to fit a variety of reading preferences.
The October 2025 12 Months of Reading Challenge category is: a book with leaves or autumn colors on the cover.
If you’re anything like me, you love autumn: the smells,
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Animal Vignettes: True Stories of Friendship:
"As the title implies, this is a collection of short stories featuring animals in the author’s life. Some stories are happy, some are sad, but all include the faith and/or life lesson the author learned through that experience. A variety of animals an"
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"This story is the literary equivalent of a warm cup of tea on a blustery evening. It is a chance to sit with the author and reminisce about love, life, loss, and laughter through interactions with fur babies. As we meet each new character, we are cha"
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“As I read more in this one little book, I understood for the first time ever that I’m a sinner. I can’t do anything good on my own—which I pretty much knew. What I didn’t know was there was someone who came to save me. Someone perfect who could take on the punishment I deserved. Perfection’s not in my skill set, but God sent his son Jesus to be that for me. He let himself be put up on that cross—like the one out by the pond—and his father turned his back on him because he took my sin … he took your sin … he took it all on him, so we don’t have to. “Like we’ve all heard Ben say, ‘We can’t ever do more bad than God’s willing and able to forgive.’ More than that, we don’t ever have to be separated from God. I’ve”
― Any Good Thing
― Any Good Thing
“Nothin’ can be done about the past. It was. But it doesn’t have to be our present or future. We get to move on. We get to make wiser choices based on what that past taught us. We get to serve and bless others using that past.”
― Any Good Thing
― Any Good Thing
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. ”
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
― I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays
“That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.”
― The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
― The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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