📖 Recent Quotes 📖

• That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the best——I’m sure it is the most religious——for I begin with writing the first sentence——and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

  an excerpt from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne in 1769

• Soon is such a long word.

  an excerpt from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, written by Patricia A. McKillip in 1974

• I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.

  an excerpt from The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, written by Patricia A. McKillip in 1974

📓 Recent Notes 📓

• I didn't love this but I definitely listened to like, twenty four hours of audiobook here. It really does mature and build on what happened in the first book.

  an note about Royal Assassin, written by Robin Hobb in 1996

• OK, after actually finishing this book: one must really need to tune out the cynic to appreciate it, but I then it's pretty amazing. High mythic fantasy, with its one internal fairy tale logic that probably obit works within its 200 pages. It’s got the self importance of Tolkien and I think it works!

  an note about The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, written by Patricia A. McKillip in 1974

• My strongest association of this book is reading it over a summer break in college. I was babysitting for Aunt Dale, and I was reading this late at night when she came back home. She asked what I was reading, what it was about: uh, love? death? I guess? I said. "Oh Matt," she said. "You just need to get laid."

  an note about Residence on Earth, written by Pablo Neruda in 1945

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