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Lory Widmer Hess
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Words help me find my way. I'm a trained spiritual director and author of When Fragments Make a Whole: A Personal Journey Through Healing Stories in the Gospels (Floris Books). Find me at lorywidmerhess.com, sacredreading.substack.com
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My January reading - see full reviews on The StoryGraph.
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Cover collage of 10 books
February 4, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 20/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
March 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Latest newsletter - Now available to subscribe via Substack as well as my blog. Musings and news about life, writing, looking for meaning in the chaos. Check it out at enterenchanted.substack.com (forever free!)

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March 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 19/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
March 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 18/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
March 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 17/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
March 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 16/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
March 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 15/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
March 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 14/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 13/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge #20BookChallenge
February 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 12/20 #Books #Booksky #20BookChallenge
February 24, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 11/20 #Books #Booksky #20BookChallenge
Cover of The Wolf Den by Elodie Harper, illustration of a classical facade with nine arches and four female figures standing or reclining in them
February 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 10/20 #Books #Booksky #20BookChallenge
Cover of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby - yellow field with orange and black butterfly in center
February 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20 #Books #Booksky #20BookChallenge
Cover of Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones - blurry illustration of two urns superimposed with images of hemlock umbrellas and a house in the distance
February 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 #Books #Booksky #20BookChallenge
Book cover of We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, with a colored pencil illustration of a black cat partly covered by tall grass
February 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 #Books #Booksky #20BookChallenge
Cover of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, with a black and white photo of WWI soldiers
February 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 #Books #Booksky #20BookChallenge
Book Cover of The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, illustration of a coastal landscape with two people walking on a cliff path, birds and dolphins
February 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge
Book cover of After by Bruce Greyson, image of a paper cutout butterfly with blue text over it
February 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge
Book Cover of What My Mother And I Don't Talk About edited by Michele Filgate - hot pink cover with yellow, orange and pink type
February 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge
Book cover of Act One by Moss Hart, watercolor illustration of a young man looking at the "Music Box" theatre on Broadway
February 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge
Cover of The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert - Yellow background with an orange mammoth skeleton
February 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge
Cover of I Know WHy the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, orange background with a yellow sun and black bird silhouette
February 11, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #Books #Booksky #BookChallenge
Cover of the book Krabat by Otfried Preussler, with an ominous illustration of twelve crouching ravens
February 9, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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My January reads tracked on #StoryGraph
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February 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#BookwormSat

"Bears see tricks and deceit as plain as arms and legs. We can see in a way humans have forgotten. You cannot trick a bear." --Iorek Byrnison in The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Illustration by Kay Nielsen from East of the Sun, West of the Moon
An antique book illustration of a young woman riding a white bear through a landscape with blue green sky and dark pine trees
January 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM