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Simon’s 2025 Year in Books
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The Story: Part 1
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"As Sanderson describes in his introduction, changing the timeline and characters in a series can be confusing, which made me apprehensive to start. However I really enjoyed this book, and look forward to the series. I appreciate the nods to the origi"
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January 20th, 2026 I didn't read it super closely, so definitely need to read it again. It's very philosophical at times, so not easy to understand, but I think it's helpful for being able to talk intelligently about the problem of pain / evil. ...more |
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Wimpy, Weak, & Woke: How truth can save America from utopian destruction:
"When I started this book I was expecting mostly opinions and biblical interpretation of current events (and there is plenty of that) but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is 90% a comprehensive history tracing the lines of philosophical thin"
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January 9, 2026 Not a huge fan of science fiction that touches a lot of real life pop culture and stuff. Maybe that's why I like fantasy so much 😂. I was also sort of rooting against the heroes of the story... It was hinted quite a bit that a lot of t ...more |
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November 17, 2025 Although I spread out the reading of this over most of the year, I did enjoy it quite a bit. All the characters were so vivid in my mind, and the story so descriptive, that I could still follow the plot even when putting the book dow ...more |
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“Fear not! ' said a strange voice behind him. Frodo turned and saw Strider, and yet not Strider; for the weatherworn Ranger was no longer there. In the stern sat Aragorn son of Arathorn, proud and erect, guiding the boat with skilful strokes; his hood was cast back, and his dark hair was blowing in the wind, a light was in his eyes: a king returning from exile to his own land.”
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“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo… and it’s worth fighting for.”
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“A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire."
"With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep.
"No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.”
― The Chronicles of Narnia
"With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep.
"No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.”
― The Chronicles of Narnia
“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
