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“Rereading old books is the highest form of literary pleasure and instructs you in what is deepest in your own yearnings.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. It returns you to otherness, whether in yourself or in friends. Imaginative literature is otherness and as such, alleviates loneliness.”
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures. It returns you to otherness, whether in yourself or in friends. Imaginative literature is otherness and as such, alleviates loneliness.”
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“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.”
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
― A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Ken’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Ken’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
211 books
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9 friends
162 books
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29 friends
1,165 books
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71 friends
530 books
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163 friends
65 books
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2 friends
160 books
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86 friends
408 books
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5 friends
566 books
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94 friends
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