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Janet’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Janet’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
Janet Skeslien Charles’s Followers (1,353)
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Janet Skeslien Charles
Goodreads Author
Born
in Conrad, Montana, The United States
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I admire many authors, including Tillie Olsen, Clarice Lispector, Barb
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Member Since
June 2009
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The Paris Library
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2021
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79 editions
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Moonlight in Odessa
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2009
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28 editions
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Montana Noir
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2017
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4 editions
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The Paris Library By Janet Skeslien Charles, The Keeper of Stories By Sally Page 2 Books Collection Set
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Interview with Sion Dayson
I am thrilled to interview Sion Dayson , author of As a River. I have long admired Sion’s writing, especially her essays on life in Paris, and am so happy to hold her novel in my hands. She will be reading at the Red Wheelbarrow bookstore in Paris on Thursday, September 12th at 7 p.m. Ms. magazine writes that “Dayson’s debut novel is at once delicate and heavy, and
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I loved this one! I read it with a pen in my hand and underlined so many gorgeous, insightful lines. The title of the book comes from the name of an organization of women who live in Nigeria and are married to men there. In Paris, I'm a member of a si ...more |
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"Going to preface this short review by saying simply that this book is not for everyone. Hell, it’s probably not for most people. As a woman who has made the difficult decision of stepping away from organized religion after a faith crisis, Women Talki"
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“Libraries are lungs, [...] books the fresh air breathed in to keep the heart beating, to keep the brain imagining, to keep hope alive.”
― The Paris Library
― The Paris Library
“Books and ideas are like blood; they need to circulate, and they keep us alive.”
― The Paris Library
― The Paris Library
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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― A Room of One's Own
― A Room of One's Own
“The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.”
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
