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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)

by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)

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"Re-reading this because I want to get back into Cosmere, I've left it for dead half a decade ago as I fell out of my reading habit. And I think the last book from Cosmere that I read was the Oathbringer.

There are just too many characters and too many storylines for me to just get an overview and get on with the Rhythm of War book. I have FOMO all the details (most of which I'll forget anyway even if I read all)." — 17 hours, 37 min ago

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Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

by Stephen Fry

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"Listening to the audiobook and I think it is produced wonderfully, with pieces of music to demonstrate the evolution of western classical music." — Oct 28, 2026 06:24PM

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In Praise of Shadows

by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

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"I hope to be inspired to paint a few compositions as I go through this book. I've previously passively listened to a chapter or two, but it never registered. I'm a better headspace now to give this better attention, with the extra motivation of taking away a few things from the books and doing a few paintings based on what I am reading." — Oct 28, 2026 07:25AM

Oct 28, 2026 07:25AM

Jayanth’s Quotes

“More valuable than gold, more precious than life, is mercy bestowed upon he who hast not known its soft kiss”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Heir of Novron

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“But I can't be alone, can I? Of course not; I'm not that special. Anomalies like me exist all around the world. So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be? What if you and I are not the last of our kinds, but one of the first? The first of better creatures in a better wold? We can hope, can't we? That we're not of the past, but the future?”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

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