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“Only the burnt corpses of books lit the sky.”

In a gift economy, the prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.

All flourishing is mutual.

Ever complain that things aren’t built to last? It’s true due to Planned Obsolescence—the concept of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited lifespan or purposely frail design so that it becomes obsolete sooner.
Lightbulb companies actually got together in the 1920s and agreed to all make the span of their lightbulbs shorter so that they could all continue to sell more lightbulbs.

omg, Tom Sawyer is insufferable.

Not even 10% in and the author has referenced Elkhart, IN as a marker for how Americans divide needs and wants.
The first thing cut when money is tight is an RV, and “trailer town” knows this well.
Because they make most of the country’s RVs, the community has long since been used as an early warning sign for any tremor in consumer confidence. So interesting that my home county is used for this data.

prepping for James

She just realized that she swallowed an earbud thinking it was Advil and didn't discover it until the morning.
"I thought it felt a little funny going down."

Let's all just imagine that for a moment.

THEN THEY PLAY A SONG AND HE CAN HEAR IT IN HER STOMACH.

oh no.
she’s lecturing him that his mom is a narcissist. last I checked, miss MC runs the social media of a mustard company and has no training that qualifies her to diagnose someone with a personally disorder.
if she had been trained, she’d know you shouldn’t diagnose without actually meeting the person. tik tok continues to influence this one😬

Rhysand has now been referenced 4 times. Are we really letting Sarah J. Maas do the heavy lifting of character development?

Already hooked by Pooter and the cat distribution system.

…but also rolling my eyes at the ACOTAR references. 3 different women refer to MC as Rhysand in the first 2 chapters? Nah, it’s too much, be for real.😅

Ironically wearing denim on denim while reading this👀

Don't typically read thrillers, but let's see how this goes...

🤯 Hobb does it again. I just wrote an essay in my notes app theorizing some connections and answers. These lightbulb moments are the most satisfying I’ve experienced in a series.

Apparently, you shouldn't eat potatoes after they've sprouted.

Well shoot.

Best to measure time now with one of the Randall plantation's cotton scales, her hunger and fear piling on one side while her hopes were removed from the other in increments. The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.

Visceral descriptions, superb writing.

I should know better than to trust GR reviews. The Rain Wild Chronicles doesn't deserve the hate it gets and shouldn't be skipped in the broader ROtE series.

Ok, I'm trying to savor it, but it's too good to slow down. Who knew I'd like the Rain Wild Chronicles so much?

Was expecting a bit of a slog since everyone skips this part of the series. But my favorite liveship, Paragon, is back so I'm happy.

"The most powerful therapy is human love."

This set of case studies from child trauma and neuroscience psychiatrist Bruce Perry is heartbreaking, informative, and captivating. The story of Peter and his amazing brain had me in tears today. The effects of neglect are severe, but the power of love and kindness are equally stunning.

I didn't learn how to lament and grieve, how to pray and be in community until I learned that God could be trusted. God is against the evil and suffering in the world. He is not the origin of evil nor does He "use" evil as a means to justify some cosmic end. Rather, God fights evil.

I couldn't trust God if I suspected God was behind our deepest griefs and injustices.

I will always pray as if this one thing is true: God is for us. And it’s worthwhile to keep knocking.
That is all I know about faith for sure.

I got my start in the small, organic faith churches of western Canada, and it was good, but I needed the kindness of the conservative Southern Baptist pastors’ wives, and I needed the Mennonites to teach me about pacifism and thrift, and I needed the megachurch’s passion, the intense studying of newly reformed friends, the mysticism of my charismatic roots, and the dessert abbas and ammas. I hold it all inside.

The shift away from the image of white woman as sinful and sexual to that of white woman as virtuous lady occurred at the same time as mass sexual exploitation of enslaved black women. Just as the rigid sexual morality of victorian England created a society in which the extolling of woman as mother and help meet occurred at the same time as the formation of a mass underworld of prostitution.

Already a must-read.

I am not in the business of sin management anymore: instead I am being transformed into His likeness.