Sign in with Facebook
Hilary
https://www.goodreads.com/hildunham
The Ambition
by
“But are we changing the community? Are we impacting the state and the region? I’ve been thinking about the hundreds of thousands of people who live within a twenty–mile drive of our campus. Are we seeing a decrease in their divorce rate?
...more
“the greatest service we can do to education today is to teach fewer subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects, we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
― Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― The Gunslinger
― The Gunslinger
“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”
― The Dark Tower
― The Dark Tower
“It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.”
―
―
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
— 26871 members
— last activity Jan 25, 2026 09:40AM
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
Hilary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hilary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
17,632 books
|
24 friends
278 books
|
18 friends
127 books
|
53 friends
163 books
|
69 friends
614 books
|
183 friends
201 books
|
52 friends
19 books
|
7 friends
6 books
|
30 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Hilary
Lists liked by Hilary
