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Maria’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Maria’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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2018: The Year of Women Writers
Some of my best ideas are born spontaneously and randomly. Well, so are some of my worst ideas, but we're not talking about those right now. I recently eyed the list of books I've completed so far for the 2018 Reading Challenge - 20 of the 72 book goal - and noticed that all 20 books were written by women.
Eureka! I am going to spend this year reading women authors exclusively. Might as well finis Read more of this blog post »
Eureka! I am going to spend this year reading women authors exclusively. Might as well finis Read more of this blog post »
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“Many books and movies had in their plots some echoes of my secret experiences with Flora. Places haunted by unquiet Indians were standard. Hotels were disturbed by Indians whose bones lay underneath the basements and floors -- a neat psychic excavation of American unease with its brutal history.”
― The Sentence
― The Sentence
“The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
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“...those whose tastes run to personal power [can] never be trusted to act save in the pursuit of their own ambition.”
― Infinity Beach
― Infinity Beach
“In the glare, the great and terrible light of this happening, God seems to signal that the story of the rest of us need not end, and that the new light can prove a troubled dawn.
For the rest of us, perhaps. Not for the dead, not for the more than fifty million real dead in the world's worst catastrophe: victors and vanquished, combatants and civilians, people of so many nations, men, women, and children, all cut down. For them there can be no new earthly dawn. Yet thought their bones like in the darkness of the grave, they will not have died in vain, if their remembrance can lead us from the long, long time of war to the time for peace.”
― War and Remembrance
For the rest of us, perhaps. Not for the dead, not for the more than fifty million real dead in the world's worst catastrophe: victors and vanquished, combatants and civilians, people of so many nations, men, women, and children, all cut down. For them there can be no new earthly dawn. Yet thought their bones like in the darkness of the grave, they will not have died in vain, if their remembrance can lead us from the long, long time of war to the time for peace.”
― War and Remembrance
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