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David is Currently Reading

David West is currently reading

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

by Fred Kaplan (Goodreads Author)

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Moby-Dick or, The Whale

by Herman Melville

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Preaching And Preachers: 40th Anniversary Edition by D M Lloyd-Jones (Jan 23 2012)

by D. E. King

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David’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament

Beginning at Moses: A Guide to Finding Christ in the Old Testament by Michael P.V. Barrett

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Man cannot stand as the judge of Scripture; Scripture stands as the judge of man.

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David’s Quotes

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: reading

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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“I shuttered from hairdo to shoe-sole”
― P.G. Wodehouse

tags: humor, wodehouse

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“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

tags: books, people, reading

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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

tags: books, bookstore, towns

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