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Nicholas’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nicholas’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Nicholas Kotar
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in San Francisco, The United States
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J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Gene Wolfe
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July 2011
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https://www.goodreads.com/ravenson
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“have so much that your hearts have become small. You can live very well with very little.”
― The Song of the Sirin
― The Song of the Sirin
“His point about the folklore of a country springing up from the deep history of a nation–this is something very important for all of us Americans to think about, especially since so many of our cultural elites seem to be more interested in putting down or even destroying our common culture (such as it is) rather than returning to it as a well of inspiration. Something to think about.”
― How to Survive a Russian Fairy Tale: Or... how to avoid getting eaten, chopped into little pieces, or turned into a goat
― How to Survive a Russian Fairy Tale: Or... how to avoid getting eaten, chopped into little pieces, or turned into a goat
“A human being can only become truly human if he lives for others. That way, the way of love, is by necessity the way of pain. Shared pain. Co-suffering.”
― The Song of the Sirin
― The Song of the Sirin
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| You'll love this ...: May 2014 - Theme Discussion (Family word in title) | 70 | 69 | May 29, 2014 12:45PM | |
| 2025 & 2026 Readi...: The Goodreads Authors Challenge - 2014 | 330 | 644 | Dec 27, 2014 12:49AM | |
| Arthuriana -- all...: Northern Heroes group read Jan 1 - Apr 1 2018 | 88 | 36 | Oct 23, 2018 04:52PM | |
| Classics and the ...: * Nikolai Gogol, "The Nose" | 20 | 46 | Jun 08, 2022 08:13AM | |
| Catholic Thought: Chapter 1 | 26 | 18 | Jun 13, 2022 01:24PM | |
| Catholic Thought: Lord Of The Rings | 10 | 20 | Sep 03, 2022 07:29PM | |
| Classics and the ...: Appendix: Part Two | 7 | 27 | Oct 21, 2022 09:06AM |
“War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― The Two Towers
― The Two Towers
“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“His point about the folklore of a country springing up from the deep history of a nation–this is something very important for all of us Americans to think about, especially since so many of our cultural elites seem to be more interested in putting down or even destroying our common culture (such as it is) rather than returning to it as a well of inspiration. Something to think about.”
― How to Survive a Russian Fairy Tale: Or... how to avoid getting eaten, chopped into little pieces, or turned into a goat
― How to Survive a Russian Fairy Tale: Or... how to avoid getting eaten, chopped into little pieces, or turned into a goat
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
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A group to discuss and recommend books published by the independent presses. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry are all allowed.
