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Janisse’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Janisse’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Janisse Ray
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Born
in Baxley, Georgia, The United States
February 02, 1962
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February 2013
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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1999
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9 editions
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The Woods of Fannin County
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The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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2012
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Wild Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home
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2003
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6 editions
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Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
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2011
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Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans
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2021
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3 editions
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Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
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2005
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood: 15th Anniversary Edition
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A House of Branches
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2010
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Craft and Current: A Manual for Magical Writing
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Janisse Ray
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Tricia Kyzer's review
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Craft and Current: A Manual for Magical Writing:
"Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, has given the world a beautiful and useful manual on writing. Each chapter leads you into the current of a personal story woven with a magical thread that leads to a tool for the craft of writing"
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Janisse Ray
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Deb Bowen's review
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Craft and Current: A Manual for Magical Writing:
"Once again, Janisse Ray's writing has changed my life. In 1999, her "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" set my course toward what would become known as environmental creative writing. Every of her books since that one has influenced my work and taught m"
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Janisse Ray
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Raven Waters's review
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Craft and Current: A Manual for Magical Writing:
"I have known Janisse and her work for some time, some might say I am biased but I know good work when I see it. Ray is giving the store away with this book. If you have ever even thought about writing, writing anything, you need to have, read, and re"
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| Very helpful. I took tons of notes in the margins and underlined lots of extremely helpful info. Many thanks to Morgana. | |
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“I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“The assumption is that hope is a prerequisite for action. Without hope one becomes depressed and then unable to act.
I want to stress that I do not act because I have hope. I act whether I have hope or not. It is useless to rely on hope as motivation to do what's necessary and just and right. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about love as motivation to act?
I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.
We are going to have to fall in love with place again and learn to stay put.”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
I want to stress that I do not act because I have hope. I act whether I have hope or not. It is useless to rely on hope as motivation to do what's necessary and just and right. Why doesn't anybody ever talk about love as motivation to act?
I may not have a lot of hope but I have plenty of love, which gives me fight.
We are going to have to fall in love with place again and learn to stay put.”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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What shall we read in October, 2025? Books published after 1990.
Miss Jane, by Brad Watson
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“Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.”
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“Now I lay me down to sleep. I pay the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pay the Lord my soul to take.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“The moral of the story, Son," Pun would say, "is Don't take more on your heart than you can shake off on your heels."
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Of all lessons, that one I never learned and I hope I never do. My heart daily grows new foliage, always adding people, picking up new heartaches like a wool coat collects cockleburs and beggar's-lice seeds. It gets fuller and fuller as I walk slow as a sloth, carrying all the pain Pun and Frank and so many others tried to walk from. Especially the pain of the lost forest. Sometimes there is no leaving, no looking westward for another promised land. We have to nail our shoes to the kitchen floor and unload the burden of our heart. We have to set to the task of repairing the damage done by and to us.”
― Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
“Are you going to farmer up or just lie there and bleed?”
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
― The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food
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Can't wait to get my hands (and eyes and heart) on Moody Forest! Meanwhile, keep warm this chilly day.
