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Jo is Currently Reading

Jo Chapman is currently reading

The Island of Sea Women

by Lisa See (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, historical, women-studies, currently-reading

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May 11, 2026 09:31PM

Jo Chapman is currently reading

The Weight of Glory

by C.S. Lewis

bookshelves: currently-reading, christian-nonfiction, christian-theology, international-authors

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Jo’s Quotes

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

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“The enemy of love is not hate. It is indifference. The enemy of love is turning away from those in need. The enemy of love is doing nothing when you can help your fellow man.”
― Gulwali Passarlay, The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee's Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan and His Extraordinary Journey Across Half the World

tags: humanitarian-crisis, refugees

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“but maybe it's possible to have more than one home. Maybe it's possible to belong in a hundred different ways to a hundred different people and places.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

tags: home

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“I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

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“Although we are all experts when it comes to language, we are all experts in slightly different languages. Our particular inventory of words and constructions and how we use them on the fly to play linguistic charades make each person's language unique. ....... A language is no more than a collection of so-called idiolects, each consisting of a distinctive combination of constructions, word choices, and personal styles of expression peculiar to a particular individual. Each and every one of us speaks a unique language that, for better or worse, will go extinct with us.”
― Morten H. Christiansen, The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

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