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Rick’s 2025 Year in Books
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Rick Ellrod
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An Epic Flash Mob Carol
Every year at Christmas I treat myself to a viewing of a YouTube video by a family of musicians called The Five Strings. The video is titled “O Come All Ye Faithful – Epic Flash Mob Carol,” and that title pretty much summarizes it—but hardly communicates the warmth and effect of the piece. Here’s a link: you might want to watch the 4:45 video before going on to my spoilers.
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Like a Mighty Army (Safehold, #7):
"I'm getting flashbacks to Wheel of Time. A brilliant premise, that is wasted because the author can't make himself move the story forward, gets caught up in minutiae, and introduces dozens upon dozens of characters, by name. (Barely pronouncable name"
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"At this point I'm reading to see "How stuff happened" and not what is going to happen or who is going to win. Because the tension in the story just isn't there. It's good stuff and people who have made it this far are thoroughly invested in it and wi"
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“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
“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
― Theaetetus
― Theaetetus
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.”
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