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Janet’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Janet’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Janet Rich Edwards’s Followers (270)
573 books
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169 friends
262 books
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1,950 books
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139 books
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475 books
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271 books
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81 books
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Janet Rich Edwards
Goodreads Author
Member Since
April 2016
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Canticle
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2025
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3 editions
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Good question, and a little hard to answer. I've been fascinated by medieval mystics most of my life -- first by their words, and later by their lives. I was dancing around the edges of the idea for Canticle, reading more deeply into the lives of the
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Once again, utterly shocked this is a debut novel. Someone sure did her homework. Looking forward to more from this author." |
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| Achingly beautiful and searingly memorable, Liar’s Dice will stay with me for a long time. Juliet Faithfull has written a novel so true and universal that it deserves more than the ‘coming of age’ genre label. I can be bored by CoA stories, but this ...more | |
“He looks at her then, her Christ, with his wounded eyes, and she sees what she had not seen before. He is in love. He is in love with her, he is in love with the sparrow and the river, he is in love with the root and trunk and flower of it all, the entire creation, and his fear and his love are inseparable. He has love even for the fear, and it is through the vulnerable door, the portal of fear, the spear in his side that will come tomorrow, that Aleys glimpses, for a fleeting moment, the unutterable vastness of her beloved.”
― Canticle: A Novel
― Canticle: A Novel
“The words and the notes weave a nest, complex and particular, twig and grass and feather, a home in the heart of the music, and she is held fast by their song. Oh, Mama, she thinks, this is the melody you sought.”
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