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Jessi is Currently Reading

Jessi is currently reading

The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8

by Beth Brower (Goodreads Author)

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Reading for the 5th time

read in December 2024

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Jessi said: " Some books you judge with your heart. Five stars. "

Dec 27, 2025 10:58PM · see review

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The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 5

by Beth Brower (Goodreads Author)

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read in February 2024

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Jessi said: " Updated review: 3/8/25 I still only want one ending but those footsteps on the stairs sure do have me worried.

2/22/24 I pretty badly want only one ending, but I trust the author for now. "

Mar 08, 2025 09:13AM · see review

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The Cinderella Plot

by Pepper Basham (Goodreads Author)

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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

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“Netted better than thirty five thou this year—now ain’t that something?” You would have to know Harold to understand that this is not exactly a boast. It is a piece of cheerful news from a cheerful and simple sort of a fellow who can’t get ...more

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Jessi’s Quotes

“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

tags: prayer

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“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: joy, praise

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“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

tags: marriage

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