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“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
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“Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.”
― The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
― The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.”
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“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”
― The Last Battle
― The Last Battle
Ruben’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ruben’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
104 books
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6 friends
254 books
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15 friends
167 books
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64 friends
97 books
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70 friends
178 books
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352 friends
152 books
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30 friends
1 book
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21 friends
19 books
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92 friends
Favorite Genres
Biography, Book Club, Classics, Fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, and Psychology
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