La vie décousue

Am I so glad I found this web page — Dear Joy, I have been into audiobooks for a few years now and once I stumbled upon the Lib­rivox col­lec­tion, not all of them are read to my lik­ing (none have i listened to in full) but I listened to your read­ing of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Happy Prince’ and I almost went crazy, you have the most beau­ti­ful voice I’ve ever heard in my LIFE. (EXtraordin­ary com­bin­a­tion of Chinese, Eng­lish and Aus­tralian accents!) So I listened to a few of the stor­ies from ‘The Happy Prince’ and then for­got all about it for — prob­ably over a year.

Today I am ambling around, doing some frag­men­ted itin­er­ant inter­net research after get­ting back into a book I like called ‘The Uses of Enchant­ment’ by Bruno Bettel­heim, I was lead to look­ing for a digital copie(s) of ‘Ara­bian Nights’, I came across vari­ous other resources on archive.org and ref­er­ences to authors and fairy tales, I decided that I ought to also re-acquaint myself with some Eng­lish stor­ies, as I am Eng­lish, and since I can’t really recall many spe­cific­ally eng­lish tales, so I went up on iTunes and searched for ‘story telling’ and ‘eng­lish folk tales’ and even­tu­ally ‘eng­lish fairy tales’ yiel­ded one of your lib­rivox pro­jects — I was over­joyed, some­thing I was look­ing for plus it was read by your voice! I hadn’t bothered to look to see if you’d read any­thing else other than that Wilde book before. So now I’m down­load­ing ‘Eng­lish Fairy Tales’, ‘Mys­ti­cism– A Study in Nature and Devel­op­ment of Spir­itual Con­scious­ness’, ‘Stor­ies of King Arthur and His Knights’ and ‘Tristan and Iseult’ as they seem as if they’d hold some interest for me. You have been gif­ted with extraordin­ary physiognomy in pos­sess­ing such a grace­ful and evoc­at­ive speak­ing voice, this has clearly not escaped the per­cep­tion of many of your other guest­book vis­it­ors and I’d like to thank you, for my part, for shar­ing it with us. Indeed your name ‘Joy’ is most aus­pi­cious as you can eas­ily facil­it­ate aud­it­ory feli­city in all who have the for­tune to acquire your recordings.

Had a look for you on Face­book (not sure if you use that) but there are lots of Joy Chans — and I don’t know what you look like. How about post­ing us a photo of you on your blog?

Hello Joy,
I have been hav­ing an awful week and the bright spot in it has been listen­ing to your record­ing of Tristan and Iseult at work. This was only the second audio book I’ve ever listened to and I don’t think I could have enjoyed the story any more if I’d actu­ally read it. You have a beau­ti­ful voice, thank you for doing these record­ings. I look for­ward to listen­ing to the other books you’ve done. –Katie

hello,
i stumbled across your audio ver­sions of murray’s abso­lute sur­render at lib­rivox, and was abso­lutely delighted! i am now cur­rently listen­ing to ‘with Christ in the school of prayer’ as i fall asleep in the even­ings. thank you so much for mak­ing these incred­ible clas­sic chris­tian works avail­able in this format.
i do have one small ques­tion, where exactly are you from? or maybe i ask, where exactly do you live? i only ask because i can’t quite place the accent. i’ve read some­thing some­where here about aus­tralia, does that mean it is your home coun­try? just curi­ous…
may Jesus richly bless you as you read His word to the world!
a

I greatly enjoy your KJV readings!

Thank you Joy, first of all, I love your beau­ti­ful voice! It is such a pleas­ure to listen to Pilgrim’s Jour­ney nar­rated by you. Where ever you are at, I wish we could be pen­pal bud­dies. Well, I’ll get back to fin­ish listen­ing to rest of the chapters. Peace to you and God bless.

Hi Joy,
Just fin­ished listen­ing to your record­ing of Holy War by John Bunyon on lib­rivox. You read it so beau­ti­fully and made that old Eng­lish flow — thank you!

Hi Joy,
I am cur­rently on Ch4 of you read­ing Pilgrim’s Pro­gress. Its such a bless­ing as after a long day of look­ing at a screen, I am always to tired to read myself. I love your voice and it has brought the book to life for me. God bless you sis­ter and your won­der­ful min­istry!
Russell

Hello Joy,
I have been greatly blessed by “Abso­lute Sur­render”. Your deliv­ery seems almost as though you are speak­ing instead of read­ing. Would you con­sider read­ing another favor­ite book of mine, “The Christian’s Secret of a happy Life” by Han­nah Whitall Smith?
regards, Jerry

Hi, Joy.

I had the pleas­ure of listen­ing to your record­ing of Pilgrim’s Pro­gress about a year ago, I think, and enjoyed it immensely. I recently pur­chased a copy of the book and a study guide for a closer read­ing and was sur­prised to find that as soon as I star­ted to read, I heard your voice in my head speak­ing those won­der­ful words! What an unex­pec­ted pleas­ure. I sup­pose you will forever be the “voice” of Pilgrim’s Pro­gress for me. Thank you for your work, and I look for­ward to check­ing out other titles you have recorded.

God bless, Tina LoTufo

Hi Joy,
Am try­ing to find your pod­cast of “Pligrim’s Pro­gress”. Wanted to point some oth­ers to it. Can’t find it on list of audio books. Has it been moved to Inter­net Archive?
Thanks.