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