Betty Jo

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Betty Jo is Currently Reading

Betty Jo is currently reading

The Heart's Invisible Furies

by John Boyne (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: ireland, fiction, currently-reading, adoption

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— Apr 22, 2026 08:44PM

Apr 10, 2026 05:10AM

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In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir

by Tom Junod

bookshelves: memoir, currently-reading, audio-audible, new-york

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Apr 02, 2026 07:17PM

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The Trial of Levi Weeks: Or The Manhattan Well Mystery

by Estelle Fox Kleiger

bookshelves: currently-reading

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Betty Jo’s Quotes

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

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“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

tags: change, enlightening, life, transition

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“One day I was counting the cats and I absent-mindedly counted myself.”
― Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories

tags: cats

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“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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