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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

by Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author)

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"About halfway through this monstrosity of a biography, history lesson, and vocabulary builder." — Feb 06, 2014 06:17AM

Jan 06, 2014 06:08PM

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Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books

by Tony Reinke (Goodreads Author)

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""Scripture is the ultimate grid by which we read every book. Scripture is perfect, sufficient, and eternal. All other books, to some degree, are imperfect, deficient, and temporary. That means that when we pick books from the bookstore shelves, we read those imperfect books in light of the perfect Book..." (locations 350-71)." — Mar 29, 2013 05:56AM

Mar 29, 2013 05:54AM

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Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

by John Steinbeck

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"Maybe the most enjoyable book I've ever read. To get to know Steinbeck's personal life like this is incredible. Makes me love him even more." — Jul 19, 2012 05:48PM

Jun 27, 2012 07:08AM

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Tim’s Quotes

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

tags: beauty, english, literature, summer

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“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: fathers, parenting, wisdom

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