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Joshua’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joshua’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Review #3 of 2026: The Pacific Trilogy by Ian Toll
Murderers’ row at Ulithi Atoll and I just finished Ian Toll’s masterful Pacific Trilogy (Pacific Crucible, Conquering Tide, and Twilight of the Gods), which covered the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, almost exclusively from the perspective of the United States and Japan. These books were the first of many in our attempt to better understand American history, and we could not have pi
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This review is mostly a spitball of rethinking Kant’s Groundwork and the truth of philosophical systems after reading Spinoza. First, I am blown away by Spinoza’s formulation of certain concepts from first principles hundreds of years before they beca" Read more of this review » |
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"I was looking forward to reading this because a former professor of mine informed me how pivotal this work has been to contemporary philosophy. I have no way of judging the truth of that statement, of course, but simply reviewing the book on its meri"
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"I like some aspects of Macintyre's writing style. He's a more engaging writer than Williams usually is, for example. His joke about philosophizing from intuitions always makes me laugh. He seems at his best & most interesting when he's talking about "
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After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory:
"I'm left with perhaps a poorer understanding of Virtue than when I began reading. Alasdair takes a pseudo-analytical approach, which means it's incredibly tedious as if everything stated is a solid rational analyses -- yet what happens when a stateme"
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| Read this for Emory's book club on the way to Florida. Honestly I'm going to have to recommend passing on this one. The narration is so removed from the cosmic horror (narrator is just piecing together notes and journal fragments), and the plot never ...more | |
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| Found out about this via my Baltimore friend Adrian! This is a very simple running method (3 easy runs, 3 tempo runs, one long run) and I'm excited to try it out. 3-stars because you honestly don't need to read the book (unless you need hyper-specifi ...more | |
“Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.”
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
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