La vie décousue

Hi Joy, loved your record­ing of Tristan and Isolde. You’re a won­der­ful narrator!

I’ve been enjoy­ing your read­ings on the Inter­net Archive. Thank you very much. I par­tic­u­larly enjoyed the read­ing of Underhill’s Mys­ti­cism. I’ve been mean­ing to read it on my own for years. With your help I finally have. Take care, Mark

Love the read­ing of Pilgrim’s Pro­gress. I am doing an updated Eng­lish ver­sion in Cre­at­ive Com­mons, inter­ested? I’m at the 5th stage, so you know how far I have to go… But I also know how long and hard record­ings are. I will check back with ya later

Just down loaded “The Pilgrim’s Pro­gress” from lib­rivox. That’s for mak­ing this possible.

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.

And all who took toward Jesus God gave to them power that be child of God and still today , let us pro­claim Jesus to the people and be worker together in God,praying help for oth­ers and win,thanks and bless and hope,keijo sweden

Hi Joy I hve been listen­ing to your Andrew Mur­ray “Abso­lute sur­render” and cur­rently “School of obed­i­ence”. I thought your read­ing was “out of this world” excel­lent!! Keep it up.I was sur­prised to see that you reside in Sydney. I’m at Par­ra­matta and I attend Wentworthville Baptist Church. God Bless you, keep up the good work and look after your prize asset-your won­der­ful voice. Kevin

I was just won­der­ing if you would know if pil­grims pro­gress had been repub­lished and about what year if it had I have one and its a hard back book and it has onion paper in it between all the pic­tures. there is no date in it. It came from scottland Eng­land. It was bought in Texas in 1980. it has a black cover on it. if you have any inform­a­tion on it could you please email me back.

Hi Joy,
Won­der­ful read­ing of Pilgrim’s Pro­gress! Thanks SO much!

Can I have your per­mis­sion to post “Pilgrim’s Pro­gress” on my web­site? I have a daily mail­ing list of some 6000 subscribers.

Please R.S.V.P. to pilgrim@gracegems.org

Thanks for your con­sid­er­a­tion!
Jeff

Joy, could you please email me? I have a ques­tion I’d like to ask you. Thank you in advance.

Your voice is the only beau­ti­ful on lib­rivox, everything else is hor­rible Amer­ican noise; your work is admirable.

Greet­ings from the 19-year old com­poser from Den­mark! (Austria)

Joy,
Heard your won­der­ful read­ing of Tristan and Isolde on the Craft­Lit pod­cast. Did you know that Heather Ordover of that pod­cast used your work there? So many of us listen­ers of her pod­cast heard you there and enjoyed your read­ing. Your voice and accent are per­fect for that story and you did a won­der­ful, power­ful job of read­ing that story. Your edit­ing is per­fect and I know that does not come without effort. I am a Lib­rivox reader, as well, so I really appre­ci­ate the effort that goes into those record­ings. Keep up the great work. I am a new fan! (You can find me on Lib­rivox as beckym)

I just listened to “Tristan and Iseult.”

Won­der­ful .… I think I love you !!

Hi Joy I just fin­ished listen­ing to your read­ing of Tristan & Isolde. It was beau­ti­ful! You have a gor­geous voice and it was espe­cially per­fect for such a won­der­ful story. Thank you for tak­ing the time to read this gem and make it avail­able online, I have really enjoyed listen­ing to it.

Hi Joy,

I dis­covered the “Pilgrim’s Pod­cast” and am really enjoy­ing it–thank you for record­ing it! I wanted to find out more about the mys­ter­i­ous Joy Chan. So I assume you’re a chris­tian, if you’re inter­ested in record­ing these things? I saw on your site some of Andrew Murray’s writ­ings. But then also a book on mys­ti­cism. I’ll keep look­ing through the site! Thanks again, Joy!

Enjoyed the Eng­lish Fairy Tales. You are a very good reader. What is your accent?

I’ve been listen­ing to your read­ing of Pilgrim’s Pro­gress from Librivox.com. I really appre­ci­ate it. But I think the fifth sec­tion in the first part needs some editing.

Thanks,

Bob

I am writ­ing to let you know how much I enjoyed your read­ing of “Tristan and Iseult.” You are a good fit for story. I am a law stu­dent, and my eyes don’t have the strength to endure my lit­er­at­ure crav­ings after my school read­ing is fin­ished… Thank­fully, I found Lib­rivox to keep me busy. Thank you for giv­ing your voice to the story. Keep it up.

Dear Joy,
Thanks for read­ing in lib­rivox and for your web­site. This one is just to tell you that décousue should be spelt with an E at the end as life is fem­in­ine in French (I am French). Sorry for not mind­ing my own busi­ness ! Thanks