📖 Recent Quotes 📖

• For there is nothing that makes us love a man so much, as praying for him.

  an excerpt from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, written by William Law in 1729

• And as physic may justly be called the art of restoring health, so education should be considered in no other light, than as the art of recovering to man the use of his reason.

  an excerpt from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, written by William Law in 1729

• ... you should chant or sing one of those psalms, which we commonly call the reading-psalms; for singing is as much the proper use of psalm, as devout supplication is the proper use of a form of prayer; and a psalm only read is very much like a prayer that is only looked over.

  an excerpt from A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, written by William Law in 1729

📓 Recent Notes 📓

• Here's a YA book I wouldn't have taken the chance to read - but I met the author at a party and realized: shoot! Fiction author in my neighborhood? I'm sure as hell reading his books. This was great; at first a kind of 'moody teenager with too many feelings' YA school story, that was definitely just not my lane. But it takes a much weirder and more serious turn, and I was absolutely into it in the back half.

  an note about The Great Big One, written by J. C. Geiger in 2021

• 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

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