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“I was very glad, since I thought He meant I was to die soon, and the mere thought of this delighted me.” “The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila” by Herself. Perhaps we can blame my Catholic upbringing, perhaps we can blame the course I took in college that landed this book in my hand,…
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“What I have taught and laid down, Ananda, as Doctrine (Dhamma) and Discipline (Vinaya), this will be your teacher when I am gone.” “What the Buddha Taught” by Walpola Rahula My first introduction to Buddhism was at college, where I decided to take it as one of my Philosophy & Religion credits and had no…
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This is probably something I shouldn’t be saying ever, much less a month and a half before it’s released, but The Slayer Saga: Soulless is not a great book, not by a long shot. Nor will it be. It would take years of editing and revamping and revisions before it even gets close to greatness,…
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Well, here we are, for another installment of my somewhat disjointed #BookADay journey through June! Today’s six entries still don’t catch me up, but, by the next post, I should definitely be there, if not a little closer. I’m unable to do this every day, so it’s more #BookEveryFewDays for me. Whatever. It’s a chance…
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“The experience left her with a certain haunted quality I very much admired. She’d looked into the face of something horrible, and I wanted to know what that felt like.” “Naked” by David Sedaris There are plenty of really stellar and poignant quotes from David Sedaris’s collection of episodic memoirs, Naked, that I like much…
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Due to the nature of my blog, my personal time constraints, and the unexpected blips like my last computer being rendered defunct like the Wicked Witch of the West (that is, thanks to H2O), I usually don’t participate in a lot of daily challenges that pop up around the web. Still, the #BookADay challenge really…
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“In the case of good books the point is not how many of them you can get through but rather how many can get through to you.”–Mortimer Adler. This beauty popped up on another great quote post from interesting literature, one I take a particular liking to after Lauralynn Elliott‘s Facebook post asking how man…
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Today’s Round of Words in 80 Days check-in is going to be a little bit different from my usual ones. First of all, there will be no breaking down of goals (although, really, I only have two main goals this round, so that basically means I won’t be talking about one of them). Because today…
L.S. Engler 