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J.L.’s 2025 Year in Books
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J.L. Rallios
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in Stockton, The United States
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C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, George MacDonald, Elizabeth Peters, Conan Doyle,
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The Gopher and the Erstwhile Wizard
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The Gopher & the Erstwhile Wizard by J.L. Rallios (2015-03-13)
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The Emperor’s New Clothes: a true story.
We are all like “The Emperor” wearing his “new clothes,” which are a figment of his prideful imagination and vanity. Until we see that we are naked and ridiculous, God cannot clothe us with His righteousness or fill us with Himself. Wearing imaginary clothes can seemingly be no problem if everybody else is just as blind – and as long as the weather holds favorably. But God brings the winter with i
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| Exceptional young adult mystery, far superior than the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew in writing quality, description, suspense, and characterizations. This is The Three Investigators first case in which they face their fears that a haunted castle conjure ...more | |
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is on page 75 of 390 of After Death: Too boring, too stereotypical, too... not caring, not being sucked into finding what happens, not wanting to suspend my disbelief.... could not bring myself into reading a page more. Care too much about what Before Death than after it -- so many books I WANT to read more.
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The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
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| A great Sherlock Holmes' pastiche, which tells of Watson taking his ailing wife to Egypt for her health getting himself entangled in Holmes' case of tracking down a missing duke who had been treasure hunting. Exciting adventure and clever mystery, co ...more | |
“That is the problem with not being able to depend on anything, you become afraid of everything -- even the best of intention.”
― The Gopher & the Erstwhile Wizard
― The Gopher & the Erstwhile Wizard
“That is the problem with not being able to depend on anything, you become afraid of everything -- even the best of intentions.”
― The Gopher & the Erstwhile Wizard
― The Gopher & the Erstwhile Wizard
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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