Ben Eastman

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Ben is Currently Reading

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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: books-i-own, sci-fi, currently-reading, audible-books-i-own, elizabeth

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read in May 2024

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Ben Eastman said: " Andy Weir has a great talent for writing sci-fi. The Martian remains my favorite, but this slides very nicely into second place. I enjoyed the use of memory loss to turn it into a double mystery - How did I get here? And How do I save the world?

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Mar 30, 2026 08:18PM · see review

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The Wisdom Literature: Interpreting Biblical Texts Series

by Richard J. Clifford

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Mar 24, 2026 06:16AM

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The Art of Biblical Poetry

by Robert Alter

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Mar 24, 2026 06:14AM

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Ben’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The New American Bible, Revised Edition

The New American Bible, Revised Edition by Anonymous

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Ben’s Quotes

“The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the physical theory forgets that it has no such principles of interpretation with its own bosom.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Philosophy of Science

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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

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“Narnia, held captive by the “post-Christian” Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber.”
― Louis A. Markos, A to Z with C. S. Lewis

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“The Witch's conception of what Narnia should be like is similar to what Sauron desires for Middle-earth (and what Satan desires for our own world) : a barren landscape devoid of life peopled by joyless automatons who neither laugh nor take pleasure in anything. It is Satan, not Christ who is the cosmic killjoy.”
― Louis Markos, On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis

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“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists one year, idealists the next; cynics for another period, and Eberals for still another. They have their quivers full of arrows but no fixed target. As no game makes the hunter tired of the sport, so the want of destiny makes the mind bored with life.”
― Fulton J. Sheen

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