In the Shadow of the Sword
History, unlike faith, cannot be built upon foundations of sand.
Timothy Rice
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Devolution
It’s great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.
⭐Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The last enemy that shall be destoyed is death.
My Brilliant Friend
She threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way.
The Hobbit
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
The Martian
I guess you could call it a ‘failure’, but I prefer the term ‘learning experience’.
Sharpen This
When sharpening skills started vanishing from the population we began to think it was difficult.
A Fire Upon the Deep
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all–no one’s around to write horror stories.
Lent
Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.
Less
Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.
The Pride of Chanur
Friend. All Friend.
Lying for Money
It is highly unlikely that the optimal level of fraud is zero.
Overpopulation Apocalypse
Yesterday’s Fears and Today’s Realities
Seeing Like a State
Legibility describes the very human tendency to simplify complex systems in order to exert control over them
The Name of the Rose
The good of a book lies in its being read.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I have set as my goal to have the greatest number possible of profound thoughts.
The Everlasting Man
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
Surprised by Joy
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
Meditations
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
If every other parent jumped off a bridge, would you?
Parfit
Don’t you see, if morality isn’t objective, our lives are meaningless!
Roadside Picnic
A flawed assumption – that an alien race would be psychologically human.
The Lathe of Heaven
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Man's Search for Meaning
Those who have a “why” to live can bear with almost any “how”.
No Two Alike
Why are we the way we are?
Empire of the Damned
Sometimes love does conquer all.
Send Your Friends Birthday Cards
It’s easy and they love it.
Letters from a Stoic
Non est beatus, esse se qui non putat.
⭐Terra Ignota Tetralogy
Would you destroy this world to save a better one?
How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
It’s not children who extinguish the flame of desire—it’s the adults who fail to keep the spark alive.
The Stars My Destination
There’s got to be more to life than just living.
Among Others
If you love books enough, books will love you back.
A Wizard of Earthsea
Danger must surround power, as a shadow does light.
Yendi
Life is like an onion.
Jhereg
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
The Rosie Project
Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.
2023 Reading Roundup
Lessons Learned
2023 Retrospective
Definitely better than 2022
The Midnight Library
Prison isn’t a place, but a perspective.
The Steerswoman Series
People need truth! They need it to be happy, to know what to do, to live!
Splitting the Second
How long is a day?
⭐Ender's Game
The enemy’s gate is down.
House of Suns
No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.
You're Not Listening
If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening.
⭐Four Thousand Weeks
The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control
Longitude
He wrested the world’s whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.
Penric's Progress
If you don’t understand something, you should just try to learn more, that’s all.
Tigana
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
What you give your attention to is the person you become.
What am I doing right now?
I am working as a Network Architect at GCI, where I am in charge of the 3 year plan for our Core IP Network. I am raising 4 wonderful children in the beautiful Pacific Northwest of the United States. I am studying for a Master’s in Computer Science at Portland State University. I am unplugging from digital life and reading at least 50 books in 2023.