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Reading this makes sainthood feel completely achievable one day and completely unachievable the next.

Like Marianne, I have realized that being indoors with a cold has its advantages. However, no suitors have brought me flowers.

“If we fail to change for the better, then we will be changed for the worse. We cannot blender our way into health by the same sad and foolish hopes by which we have blundered into disease.”

Berry do be spitting fire over here

It was going so well, but he just got on a woke soapbox. Hopefully he won’t stand on it for too long.

Not getting much reading time these days. I’m getting there though.

Reading this in bed as my nighttime book. Large print, large pictures, short “chapters”… doomscrolling got nothing on this!

“Western Christianity in the twentieth century fell into an "adjective” existence, with Christian music, Christian art, Christian plumbers, and so on. […] I am not a Christian artist. I am a Christian, yes, and an artist. I dare not treat the powerful presence of Christ in my life as an adjective. I want Christ to be my whole being.”

Completed 19 of 24. The Akhaians called for aid… and Akhilleus will answer!

14 out of 24 🎉

Completed 10 of 24! Almost halfway.

Completed book 7 of 24. Trucking ahead slowly but surely. Aphrodite just needs to leave the poor guys alone.

Completed book 3 of 24.
I’m starting to realize how long I’ll be working on this.

“[…]men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool[.]” Jonathan Swift was really unhinged in this section.
Voyage to Laputa complete.

Completed the Voyage to Brobdingnag. I feel like this book is one that Puritan teen boys would sneak out to the barn to read and snicker over together.

Thus ends the Voyage to Lilliput. No one told me I was in for 18th-century potty humor!