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"Reading the large print edition of this for work and it is incredibly fun so far, just a hundred or so pages into the story! I am loving the incorporation of Latin and Gaelic." — Aug 01, 2025 07:14AM
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DNF circa page 280. I can't, in good faith, recommend this book to anyone I know that loves Arthuriana, and I similarly can't do the same for anyone I know that might be interested in Arthuriana but doesn't quite know where to start reading about kni ...more "
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"Modern historical / fantasy authors really need to cut back on the cOrSeTs aRe tHe wOrSt eVer shtick because man, it is tiresome and poorly researched." — Jul 21, 2025 09:53AM
"Modern historical / fantasy authors really need to cut back on the cOrSeTs aRe tHe wOrSt eVer shtick because man, it is tiresome and poorly researched." — Jul 21, 2025 09:53AM
Thus I return to Chestov. A commentator relates a remark of his that deserves interest: “The only true solution,” he said, “is precisely where human judgment sees no solution. Otherwise, what need would we have of God? We turn toward God
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“Adults with Adverse Childhood Experiences are on alert. It’s a habit they learned in childhood, when they couldn’t be sure when they’d face the next high-tension situation. After her terrifying childhood illness, Michele never felt at peace, or whole, as an adult: “I was afraid I could be blindsided by any small medical crisis that could morph and change my entire life.”
― Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
― Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
“For emotionally immature people, all interactions boil down to the question of whether they’re good people or bad ones, which explains their extreme defensiveness if you try to talk to them about something they did. They often respond to even mild complaints about their behavior with an extreme statement, like “Well, then, I must be the worst mother ever!” or “Obviously I can’t do anything right!” They would rather shut down communication than hear something that could make them feel like bad people.”
― Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
― Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
“The universal quest to find balance and harmony between men and women, beings who are at once so alike and so different, lies at the heart of all Amazon tales.”
― The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
― The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World
“Historians estimate more dead soldiers at Cannae than in any other day of battle in Western History, and that 30,000 gallons of blood were spilled in that one day.41”
― Hannibal
― Hannibal
“Another form of neglect occurs when emotionally immature parents give such superficial comfort that they aren’t at all helpful to a scared child. One woman remembered that whenever she was scared as a child, she knew she would have to get through it on her own. When I asked whether she remembered ever getting help with her fears, she said, “That feels like a foreign idea to me. It would be nice to know someone understands, but I never felt that way. I don’t remember anyone being able to help with the fears I was having. They just said generic things, like ‘Oh, you’re going to be fine,’ ‘It’s going to be okay,’ or ‘There’s no need to feel that way; you’ll feel better soon.”
― Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
― Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
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