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J.E.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at J.E.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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J.E. Knowles
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January 2010
Up to the mountain
I had been thinking about Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania since the last time I was there, in 2017. As readers of The Discreet Traveler know, on summit night I turned around at 5,200 meters above mean sea level (=17,060 feet), which is nothing to be ashamed of. Kilimanjaro is the highest freestanding mountain in the world. The problem for me was that I kept thinking it had affected me, my ability to g
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Trees in the Field
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2012
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4 editions
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Arusha
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2009
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5 editions
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Toe to Toe: Standing Tall and Proud
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2008
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2 editions
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In This Together
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2021
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Faith In Writing: Essays In Honor Of Jack L. Knowles
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2012
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J.E.’s Recent Updates
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“I should like to make life beautiful--I mean everybody's life. And then all this immense expense of art, that seems somehow to lie outside life and make it no better for the world, pains one. It spoils my enjoyment of anything when I am made to think that most people are shut out from it."
I call that the fanaticism of sympathy," said Will, impetuously. "You might say the same of landscape, of poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it out you ought to be miserable in your own goodness, and turn evil that you might have no advantage over others. The best piety is to enjoy--when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you feel delight--in art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralising over misery? I suspect that you have some false belief in the virtues of misery, and want to make your life a martyrdom.”
― Middlemarch
I call that the fanaticism of sympathy," said Will, impetuously. "You might say the same of landscape, of poetry, of all refinement. If you carried it out you ought to be miserable in your own goodness, and turn evil that you might have no advantage over others. The best piety is to enjoy--when you can. You are doing the most then to save the earth's character as an agreeable planet. And enjoyment radiates. It is of no use to try and take care of all the world; that is being taken care of when you feel delight--in art or in anything else. Would you turn all the youth of the world into a tragic chorus, wailing and moralising over misery? I suspect that you have some false belief in the virtues of misery, and want to make your life a martyrdom.”
― Middlemarch
“Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it."
But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself.
Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself.
Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
― The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”
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Feb 11, 2013 07:11AM
New to this site so I'll just ask--what do Goodreads' star ratings mean to you? And do star ratings without a review mean anything to you? Thanks.
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Barrett wrote: "Welcome Aboard! thanks for the add."Thanks, Barrett!
Maria wrote: "Hi Jacqui,Thanks for adding me on Goodreads. I really like this site. I've gotten a lot of tips on some really good books.
Take care,
Maria"
Thanks, Maria! Hope I can figure it out.
Cheri wrote: "Hello there! I'm new to goodreads too. There's no end to the literary havens available on the net. Thanks for the add. Cheri"
Thanks, Cheri! I have no idea how to use this. Does it update on Facebook? It looks like fun though! Jacqui
Hi Jacqui,Thanks for adding me on Goodreads. I really like this site. I've gotten a lot of tips on some really good books.
Take care,
Maria
Hello there! I'm new to goodreads too. There's no end to the literary havens available on the net. Thanks for the add. Cheri
