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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an
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“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
Micah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Micah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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602 friends
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