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Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sarah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Why I Read This: I bought a beautiful edition of Paradise Lost illustrated by William Blake and did intend to read it, but my husband beat me to it. He had ordered Lewis’s Preface and I decided to read that instead (while waiting for my turn with the ...more |
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"Although I've engaged off and on with his poetry over the decades ever since junior high school, Milton has never been a favorite poet of mine. Paradise Lost is still the only work from his pen that I have yet to read (I've read some excerpts from it"
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Why I Read This: Back when I was 7, my teacher read The Riddle of the Trumpalar to the class. Afterwards, our assignment was to go out into the playground and befriend a tree. 'Each tree has a spirit,' she told us, and I took this assignment very seri ...more |
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Why I Read This: Back when I was 7, my teacher read The Riddle of the Trumpalar to the class. Afterwards, our assignment was to go out into the playground and befriend a tree. 'Each tree has a spirit,' she told us, and I took this assignment very seri ...more |
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“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”
― The Other Wind
― The Other Wind
“I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit of ten dry years; then and always, however she spoke to me, in half sentences, single words, stock phrases of contemporary jargon, in scarcely perceptible movements of eyes or lips or hands, however inexpressible her thought, however quick and far it had glanced from the matter in hand, however deep it had plunged, as it often did, straight from the surface to the depths, I knew; even that day when I still stood on the extreme verge of love, I knew what she meant.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“There are encounters that change nothing. Urth turns her aged face to the sun and he beams upon her snows; they scintillate and coruscate until each little point of ice hanging from the swelling sides of the towers seems the Claw of the Conciliator, the most precious of gems. Then everyone except the wisest believes that the snow must melt and give way to a protracted summer beyond summer.”
― The Complete Book of the New Sun
― The Complete Book of the New Sun
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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As a writer, I like to read widely – for pleasure, for research or for curiosity alone.
My reviews tell you why I read the book and the impression it left on me. I include a section called 'Craft Related Notes' to make sure I am paying attention to the techniques the writer used. After all, every book is a teacher.
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