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Jay is Currently Reading

Jay is currently reading

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

bookshelves: audiobook, classic, duplicate-soft-cover, family-law, historical-fiction, lit, mystery, own, psych, rcmd-from-friend, rcmnd-by-fam, rec-from-another-book, translated-work, currently-reading

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Mar 08, 2026 07:10AM

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Crux: Daily Lenten Meditations

by Fr. Columba Jordan, CFR

bookshelves: christian, health-wellness, own, spiritual, currently-reading

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Feb 18, 2026 09:13AM

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The Lifegiving Home: Creating a Place of Belonging and Becoming

by Sally Clarkson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: audiobook, christian, family-law, health-wellness, memoirs, psych, spiritual, currently-reading

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Feb 11, 2026 02:38PM

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Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday

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“Night and Day” is the toughest song in the world for me to sing. So I said we’d try that first and see what happened. I’ll never forget that first note, or the second. Or especially the third one, when I had to hit “day” and hold it. I hit ...more

Jay’s Quotes

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.”
― Mary Oliver, American Primitive

tags: poetry

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