1342 ratings (4.08 avg)
403 reviews
more photos (4)

Pat Loughery

http://www.patloughery.me/

https://www.goodreads.com/patloughery

Pat’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1124)
currently-reading‎ (1)
read‎ (1868)
paused-on-hold‎ (34)
dnf‎ (28)
reference-book‎ (13)
library‎ (246)
christian-spirituality‎ (129)
audiobook‎ (101)
novel‎ (85)
celtic-spirituality‎ (83)
photography‎ (79)

creativity‎ (54)
writing‎ (50)
drawing-sketching-doodling‎ (47)
memoir‎ (47)
2014-art-and-creativity‎ (43)
sfd-524-contemplative‎ (41)
graphic-novel‎ (37)
poetry‎ (37)
watercolor‎ (37)
urban-sketching‎ (36)
contemplation‎ (35)
pilgrimage‎ (29)

cycling‎ (28)
2015-art-and-creativity‎ (27)
history‎ (27)
spirituality-theology-of-place‎ (25)
the-733-weavings‎ (23)
gardening‎ (21)
novels-about-prayer-and-spiritualit‎ (21)
business‎ (20)
leadership‎ (20)
re-read‎ (19)
adventure-travel‎ (18)
music‎ (16)

storytelling‎ (16)
motorcycling‎ (15)
2012-12-celtic-books‎ (14)
adventure-motorcycling‎ (14)
land‎ (14)
software-agile-devops‎ (14)
spiritual-direction‎ (14)
2012-12-nightstand-books‎ (13)
pacific-northwest‎ (13)
race-and-justice‎ (13)
fitness‎ (12)
food‎ (11)

Stats | More…

Pat is Currently Reading

Pat Loughery is currently reading

Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)

by Larry McMurtry

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

progress:

(page 642 of 960)
— 6 hours, 16 min ago

Jan 23, 2026 02:59PM

Pat’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed by John Vaillant

32 highlights

A coastal forest can be an awesome place to behold: huge, holy, and eternal-feeling, like a branched and needled Notre Dame, but for a stranger it is not a particularly comfortable place to be. You can be twenty paces from a road or a beach ...more

See Pat Loughery’s 29 books with notes and highlights…

Pat’s Quotes

“Everyone should be acknowledged. Everyone should be missed when they are not right there with you because of what they carry, this very distinct way they have of bearing themselves that is like no one else and that is built by everything they have done and everything they have seen.”
― Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

5 likes

“You’re flawed, and the world you see corresponds to these flaws. Weaknesses define you, drive new and original strategies to cover them, and they make you who you are. You don’t exist without them.”
― Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

6 likes

“I believed what my father told me. Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

20 likes

“I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character.”
― Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

tags: science-fiction

6 likes

“A home is an origin story. A home is a thing to carry. A home is a wild field of energy that floods floods floods. Call me. Call me home.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

22 likes

More of Pat’s quotes…