Sign in with Facebook
Joanne’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Joanne’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
Joanne Otto’s Followers (8)
2,231 books
|
126 friends
2,005 books
|
115 friends
808 books
|
1,688 friends
360 books
|
107 friends
269 books
|
148 friends
20 books
|
38 friends
55 books
|
52 friends
860 books
|
58 friends
More friends…
Joanne Otto
Goodreads Author
Born
Long Island, The United States
Website
Genre
Member Since
November 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/wordskills
|
Daughter of Jerusalem
—
published
2013
—
7 editions
|
|
|
The You-Song
—
published
2013
—
8 editions
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Thank You, Fred Rogers!
Could there be a better time for a movie about Fred Rogers to be released than at what has sadly become the most stressful season of the year? Perhaps no one in modern times has dealt more successfully with what Fred referred to as “the mad that I feel”— an expression he’d once picked up from a child. He simply radiated kindness, patience, and understanding to the children on his television show a
Read more of this blog post »
Joanne’s Recent Updates
|
Joanne Otto
entered a giveaway
|
|
|
Joanne Otto
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| Feiler has sensitively captured in this book the intercultural, interpersonal nuances of his experiences during the year he spent teaching English in Japan. Some of it is hilariously funny, some of it is deeply moving, and all of it provides the kind ...more | |
|
Joanne Otto
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| I learned some interesting facts which support the authenticity of the four gospels, but Strobel tried to characterize a number of theological points as "factual" as well - points which are are strictly matters of interpretation. And then he announce ...more | |
|
Joanne Otto
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
|
I just had to read another of Amy Belding Brown's books after finishing "Emily's House," which I had loved. This one, too, was beautifully written. It is a portrait of Emerson's marriage to his second wife, Lydia, known as "Lydian," written from her p ...more |
|
|
Joanne Otto
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| Another remarkably astute and sensitive take on American history by Amy Belding Brown. It takes place in the mid-seventeenth century when Mary Rowlandson, a preacher's wife, is kidnaped by a band of Indian warriors. Her interaction with their people, ...more | |
|
Joanne Otto
wants to read
Hester
by Laurie Lico Albanese (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Best Historical Fiction |
|
|
Joanne Otto
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| This has to be one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. The author, who was blinded by an accident before he was eight years old and spent over a year in a German prison camp, was asked for the story of his life He had no interest in doing s ...more | |
|
Joanne Otto
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| This is a carefully organized and thoroughly researched scholarly work on the origins of Christian Science and its emergence in American culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a distinct Christian identity--as Vorhees puts it, "a singul ...more | |
|
Joanne Otto
rated a book liked it
|
|
| The subject of this book fascinated me, but very little of the content was devoted to specific details about these women. Mostly it was about what made them so rare: the gender roles of the Greco-Roman culture with which we are still, to a lesser ext ...more | |
|
Joanne Otto
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| There are few authors who capture the nuances of human feelings as perfectly as Horgan does, and this novel is no exception. It depicts the lives of the families of U. S. Naval Academy graduates during and after World War II, and the characters truly ...more | |
“You are a song like no other song God's ever sung. Let that song fill your part of His world with joy-sounds.”
― The You-Song
― The You-Song
“In the past, I would’ve listed things such as common interests, mutual attraction, worldliness, and higher education. My freedom above all else. If I had found love, it would have had to be the kind that overwhelmed and overpowered all else.
I passed a hand between Ray and Me. “Once you told me that this,” I said “is a beginning.” I searched his face. "But how do you know, Ray? How do you know it’s the beginning of something good?”
“I know.” His breath was warm on my face as he moved in closer.” Because someday, you’re bound to forgive yourself.”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
I passed a hand between Ray and Me. “Once you told me that this,” I said “is a beginning.” I searched his face. "But how do you know, Ray? How do you know it’s the beginning of something good?”
“I know.” His breath was warm on my face as he moved in closer.” Because someday, you’re bound to forgive yourself.”
― The Magic of Ordinary Days
