Ryan's Current Reads
Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
The Tao Te Ching by Laozi
Iron Gold by Pierce Brown
Ryan's Top Reads of 2024:
1. The First Law by Joe Abercrombie
2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
4. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
5. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Ryan's Quotable Quotes
There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. - Benedict Cumberbatch
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. – Kate DiCamillo
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. – Oscar Wilde
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Books should go where they will be most appreciated and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree? – Christopher Paolini
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. – C.S. Lewis
The mountains are calling and I must go. - John Muir
A room without books is like a body without a soul. - Cicero
To read is to voyage through time. – Carl Sagan
Books are a uniquely portable magic. – Stephen King
Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination. – The Stormlight Archive
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. – George R.R. Martin
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