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Jo Ann is Currently Reading

Jo Ann is currently reading

The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom

by Henri J.M. Nouwen

bookshelves: 2021, spiritual-formation, currently-reading

Reading for the 3rd time

read in June 2021

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Jo Ann said: " ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I read this slowly, like a slow-drip IV. One of the most honest struggles with pain, anguish, depression I have ever read and yet, filled with hope and encouragement. "

Jun 12, 2021 02:57AM · see review

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The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali (Goodreads Author)

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May 09, 2026 09:13PM

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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

by Mary Oliver

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Jo Ann’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age

Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age by Felicia Wu Song

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While we are so grateful and even love so much of what we get from our digital technologies, we often feel frustrated, harassed, and exhausted by them. And we don’t know what to do about it.

Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi

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Demon Copperhead

by Barbara Kingsolver

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Jo Ann’s Quotes

“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

tags: inspirational, reason, sorrow, trial

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“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

tags: morality, war

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“Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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