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Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Amy J. Francisconi’s Followers (37)
1,447 books
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128 friends
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627 books
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127 friends
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80 friends
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409 books
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Amy J. Francisconi
Goodreads Author
Born
in Hockessin, The United States
Genre
Influences
Graeme Base, Jan Brett
Member Since
April 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/spedbug
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An Audacious Alphabet
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2014
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
An Accidental Author
I've always liked to draw and I've always liked to read. Given my druthers, that's how I'd spend most days (with breaks for food and naps, of course).
Years ago, I joined an online community of fellow book lovers who delighted in the idea of registering books so they could be tracked before being released 'into the wild'. That community had a forum through which I befriended like-minded people all Read more of this blog post »
Years ago, I joined an online community of fellow book lovers who delighted in the idea of registering books so they could be tracked before being released 'into the wild'. That community had a forum through which I befriended like-minded people all Read more of this blog post »
Amy’s Recent Updates
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Amy
entered a giveaway
The Singer's Gun
by Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
25 copies
available, ends on
March 14, 2026
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| I first tried an audible version of this, but the referrals back to scriptures, etc. was too confusing in this book, so I got a copy from the library. Unlike Rohr's Universal Christ which I loved, this was a little to dry and academic for me. ...more | |
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What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction |
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| Approximately twenty-five years ago, I took a deep dive into the Bible and other religious writings in order to act as an apologist for my Catholic faith. This was in response to an attempt from some Calvinists and Fundamentalists to ‘save’ me and my ...more | |
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| I had bought a hard copy of this to read but put kept putting it aside. It just wasn't 'grabbing me.' I then put the audible version on hold via Libby (the library app), and it finally became available in December. Even listening to it, I struggled t ...more | |
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I have enjoyed Claire North's writing in the past, so when I saw this audiobook immediately available on Libby, I snapped it up. A very interesting plot. Harry August lives and dies over and over. He is always born the same day, to the same parents, u ...more |
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| Frankie McGrath comes from the affluent part of Coronado Island, raised to be a lady. She, like many of her girl friends, are expected to go to school, but only to get their 'MRS.' Frankie goes to nursing school and excels, graduating at top of her c ...more | |
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| This is the second book by Ann Patchett that I've listened to. I find I'm a fan of her stories. I'm sure the physical copies of the books are like reading a letter from a friend because the audible versions feel very much like sitting with one and li ...more | |
“Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes, as if our tears wash us free of some noxious cause of sorrow.”
― Oxygen
― Oxygen
“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
― The Princess Bride
― The Princess Bride
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”
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“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― A Temple of Texts
― A Temple of Texts
“So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.”
― This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
― This Is How: Surviving What You Think You Can't
