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"The couple were well to do, and would have been free from all earthly care, but for nine children." 😂😂😂

"Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows."

Motivated to reread my E. E. collection after going through the biographies.

Finally doing this!

Finally found a copy of what I think is the only Doris Kearns Goodwin I haven't read.

This book is in sore need of an editor who understands English grammar.

Where has this book been all my life? So good.

Attempting to give the whole mystery genre another fair shot.

Third time's the charm?

Annual New Year's re-read.

Treating myself to a re-read for the holidays.

"To enter faerie - that is, a sacremental and liturgical understanding of creation - is to open oneself to the gradual discovery of beauty, truth, and excellence."

This came in on my library audio holds. May not be the thing to take up as I sit with my dying MIL who has been with my FIL for 66 years, but here goes.

The bright gift waiting at the end of the Austen road.

The only Austen I've never read!

It rained. I have a cold. It must officially be fall! I think I'll treat myself to a run right through all of Austen this fall. I actually think I may never have read Northanger Abbey? It's time.

Had this on my audible freebie shelf for a while. Seemed like a good time to dreg it up.

"They were the hands, she felt now, of Eternity,...She had given herself into his hands, choosing to belong to him rather than to Time, courageously willing to be broken by time that she might live in eternity." page 60

"You needn't worry about being useful," said Dame Ursula. "'When you have become God's in the measure he wants, he, himself, will know how to bestow you on others.'" She was quoting St. Basil.

The third, "I can't believe I haven't read this yet!" title for me this summer alongside "Middlemarch" and "Count of Monte Cristo." Finishing off with something a bit less daunting. ;P

"The Count of Monte Cristo'...otherwise known as" The Book of a Thousand Rabbit Trails," or perhaps," This is the Book That Never Ends, Yes It Goes On and On My Friends."

Finally reading (audio) this for real! I've half-heartedly started it at least twice. It's time.