Sign in with Facebook
551 books
—
334 voters
Mari
is currently reading
Reading for the 2nd time
Mari said:
"
I was sent one chapter to read and I liked it alot. The boy, Remmy, is immediately likeable and also an original. I like his originality! I like the way we get immediately into history of the time, and an important time it was. The story moves quickl
...more
"
“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?”
― Ill Nature
― Ill Nature
“Pearl suspected God didn't love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness.”
― The Changeling
― The Changeling
“War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.”
―
―
“...deeds are done which appear so evil to us and people suffer such terrible evils that it does not seem as though any good will ever come of them; and we consider this, sorrowing and grieving over it so that we cannot find peace in the blessed contemplation of God as we should do; and this is why: our reasoning powers are so blind now, so humble and so simple, that we cannot know the high, marvelous wisdom, the might and the goodness of the Holy Trinity. And this is what he means where he says, 'You shall see for yourself that all manner of things shall be well', as if he said, 'Pay attention to this now, faithfully and confidently, and at the end of time you will truly see it in the fullness of joy.”
― Revelations of Divine Love
― Revelations of Divine Love
Mari’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mari’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,678 books
|
1,031 friends
181 books
|
378 friends
1,466 books
|
59 friends
105 books
|
446 friends
374 books
|
355 friends
82 books
|
1,764 friends
75 books
|
213 friends
2 books
|
194 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Mari
Lists liked by Mari
