If you have enjoyed The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, or maybe even the Silmarillion, it might be time to explore some of these or other of Tolkien’s lesser-known stories.
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The Education of Henry Adams (Book Recommendation)
The education he had received bore little relation to the education he needed. Speaking as an American of 1900, he had as yet no education at all. He knew not even where or how to begin.
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Another Sort of Learning (Book Recommendation)
If I am concerned about teaching or lecturing or grading, it is because I am most concerned about the highest things to which we are called, called by being attracted to them in our souls, which are somehow open to what is beyond us.
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Epitaphs for the Journey (Book Recommendation)
For me, when I’m really in a poem, it’s the same as being in the middle of a prayer. It really is. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all the poems are going to be religious poems, except maybe in some very, very deep sense.
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Four Colors Suffice: How the Map Problem Was Solved (Book Recommendation)
"How many colors are needed to color any map (real or imaginary) such that any county is always colored differently than any neighbor with whom it shares a border?" The answer is simple, the mathematics complex.
