Timothy Rice

In the Shadow of the Sword

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:55:21 -0700

History, unlike faith, cannot be built upon foundations of sand.

Devolution

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:53:09 -0700

It’s great to live free of the other sheep until you hear the wolves howl.

⭐Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Wed, 07 May 2025 11:26:29 -0700

The last enemy that shall be destoyed is death.

My Brilliant Friend

Wed, 07 May 2025 11:26:02 -0700

She threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way.

The Hobbit

Wed, 07 May 2025 11:17:49 -0700

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

The Martian

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 06:22:12 -0800

I guess you could call it a ‘failure’, but I prefer the term ‘learning experience’.

Sharpen This

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:30:15 -0800

When sharpening skills started vanishing from the population we began to think it was difficult.

A Fire Upon the Deep

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 06:22:32 -0800

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all–no one’s around to write horror stories.

Lent

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:41:34 -0800

Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.

Less

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:03:31 -0800

Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.

The Pride of Chanur

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 06:01:26 -0700

Friend. All Friend.

Lying for Money

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:56:51 -0700

It is highly unlikely that the optimal level of fraud is zero.

Overpopulation Apocalypse

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:08:22 -0700

Yesterday’s Fears and Today’s Realities

Seeing Like a State

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:37:21 -0700

Legibility describes the very human tendency to simplify complex systems in order to exert control over them

The Name of the Rose

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 06:13:08 -0700

The good of a book lies in its being read.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 06:28:09 -0700

I have set as my goal to have the greatest number possible of profound thoughts.

The Everlasting Man

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 06:27:57 -0700

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Surprised by Joy

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 06:01:37 -0700

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

Meditations

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 20:17:56 -0700

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 06:03:18 -0700

If every other parent jumped off a bridge, would you?

Parfit

Sat, 15 Jun 2024 05:38:14 -0700

Don’t you see, if morality isn’t objective, our lives are meaningless!

Roadside Picnic

Mon, 27 May 2024 07:14:41 -0700

A flawed assumption – that an alien race would be psychologically human.

The Lathe of Heaven

Sun, 12 May 2024 08:04:35 -0700

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Man's Search for Meaning

Sat, 11 May 2024 22:15:46 -0700

Those who have a “why” to live can bear with almost any “how”.

No Two Alike

Tue, 07 May 2024 09:24:08 -0700

Why are we the way we are?

Empire of the Damned

Thu, 02 May 2024 10:22:48 -0700

Sometimes love does conquer all.

Send Your Friends Birthday Cards

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:51:48 -0700

It’s easy and they love it.

Letters from a Stoic

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 09:29:23 -0700

Non est beatus, esse se qui non putat.

⭐Terra Ignota Tetralogy

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 08:59:51 -0700

Would you destroy this world to save a better one?

How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:37:25 -0800

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

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:37:45 -0800

There’s got to be more to life than just living.

Among Others

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 07:42:19 -0800

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

A Wizard of Earthsea

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:06:13 -0800

Danger must surround power, as a shadow does light.

Yendi

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:16:32 -0800

Life is like an onion.

Jhereg

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:56:00 -0800

No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

The Rosie Project

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:57:23 -0800

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.

2023 Reading Roundup

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 12:04:59 -0800

Lessons Learned

2023 Retrospective

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:36:03 -0800

Definitely better than 2022

The Midnight Library

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 06:31:23 -0800

Prison isn’t a place, but a perspective.

The Steerswoman Series

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 06:18:11 -0700

People need truth! They need it to be happy, to know what to do, to live!

Splitting the Second

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:54:42 -0700

How long is a day?

⭐Ender's Game

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 10:17:38 -0700

The enemy’s gate is down.

House of Suns

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

You're Not Listening

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 08:17:40 -0700

If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you. You’re not listening.

⭐Four Thousand Weeks

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:05:53 -0700

The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control

Longitude

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 06:58:10 -0700

He wrested the world’s whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

Penric's Progress

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 06:58:05 -0700

If you don’t understand something, you should just try to learn more, that’s all.

Tigana

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

What you give your attention to is the person you become.

What am I doing right now?

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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.

⭐The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:27:58 -0700

The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.

The Player of Games

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 07:17:32 -0700

All reality is a game.

The Perfectionists

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 06:53:32 -0700

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

⭐The Screwtape Letters

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 06:17:36 -0700

Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The Grief of Stones

Mon, 22 May 2023 12:58:06 -0700

I could not lay down the grief I carried, but I could name it for what it was, and by naming it ease the burden.

The Witness for the Dead

Wed, 17 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I admit to a fondness for boring stories.

⭐The Queen's Thief Series

Fri, 12 May 2023 10:12:13 -0700

If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.

The Scout Mindset

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:13:54 -0800

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.

Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

O loves, take delight in one another. While you can, take delight.

How I Rate Books

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:25:33 +0000

I use a five point scale, with arbitrary precision. I usually try to work in increments of 0.5, though I occasionally dip into 0.1. Roughly speaking, you can interpret the ratings as follows: 5 Stars - ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ These are works that I consider must-reads by everyone. A book that earns five stars in one that completely gripped me and something I intend to re-read multiple times.

⭐How to Win Friends and Influence People

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 04:28:47 +0000

The deepest urge in human nature is ‘the desire to be important.'

Cryoburn

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

The Goblin Emperor

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:26:47 +0000

Better to build new bridges than to pine after what’s been washed away.

Shadow and Claw

Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

Understanding the Cash Gift Taboo

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:18:12 +0000

Dollars vs. Sense

Thermodynamics of Rock Salt and Ice Cream

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Why do we salt the ice when making ice cream?

The Superiority eBooks

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Enhance your leisure with the power of technology!

⭐Nona the Ninth

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:25:52 +0000

Can one person even be two people?

Echopraxia

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:36:44 +0000

Faith based hard science fiction (?!)

Blindsight

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Does consciousness restrict intelligence?

Things Get Better

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

An incomplete list of observed everyday life improvements since 1988

About Me

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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