Julia

Julia’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (675)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (840)
partially-read‎ (87)
not-interested‎ (18)
reference‎ (14)
ongoing-reading‎ (6)
maybe-someday‎ (5)
owned‎ (394)
kids-library‎ (321)
novels‎ (126)
series‎ (66)

mysteries‎ (52)
wheaton‎ (42)
kids‎ (40)
tintin‎ (28)
apologetics‎ (22)
brain-candy‎ (21)
sentimental‎ (20)
philosophy‎ (14)
cornerstone_fellows‎ (12)
discipleship‎ (12)
gifts‎ (12)
babies-library‎ (11)

cook-books‎ (10)
author‎ (8)
bibles‎ (8)
parenting‎ (7)
kindle-owned‎ (6)
language‎ (6)
web_development‎ (6)
self_help‎ (5)
fiction‎ (4)
health‎ (4)
nature‎ (4)
coffee_table_book‎ (3)

cornerstone_book_club‎ (3)
newberry‎ (3)
psychology‎ (3)
relationships‎ (3)
wishlist‎ (3)
dickens‎ (2)
guides‎ (2)
library-copy-on-hold‎ (2)
lw_bookclub‎ (2)
piano_lessons‎ (2)
sounds_interesting‎ (2)
travel‎ (2)

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“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

tags: books, character-development, growth, reading

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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

tags: christianity

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“And so liberalism had become a habit of Stepan Arkadyevitch's, and he liked his newspaper, as he did his cigar after dinner, for the slight fog it diffused in his brain.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Darya Alexandrovna made no reply. She suddenly felt that she had got far away from Anna; that there lay between them a barrier of questions on which they could never agree, and about which it was better not to speak.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: friendship, worldview

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“We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me, out there beyond my face and the only way to really touch it is to put it where it's finally me, where it's in the blood, where it pumps around a thousand times ten thousand a day. I get hold of it so it'll never run off. I'll hold onto the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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