Take Joy!: Links I Like (a work in progress)

Words to Consider

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau
Man will never be truly free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. —Denis Diderot
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor. —Voltaire
"They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles." —Eugene Victor Debs
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. —Tecumseh
i do it for the joy it brings / because i am a joyful girl / because the world owes me nothing / and we owe each other the world / i do it because it's the least i can do / i do it because i learned it from you / i do it just because i want to / because I want to —"Joyful Girl", Ani DiFranco
"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life." - Elizabeth Goudge, author of The Joy of the Snow
"There is nothing I can give you, which you have not; But there is much, very much, that while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. . . . And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away. " (Fra Giovanni 1513 A.D.)

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Archives

Books, 2012

Varanger, by Cecelia Holland
The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Tales from Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Mrs. God, by Peter Straub
Indigo Springs, by A.M. Dellamonica
Discount Armageddon, by Seanan McGuire
Legs, by William Kennedy
Vaclav and Lena, by Haley Tanner
Elegy for Eddie, by Jacqueline Winspear
The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Isihguro
Throne of the Crescent Moon, by Saladin Ahmed
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, by Terry Tempest Williams
Fair Folk, ed. by Marvin Kaye
Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting, by Alice Starmore
Red Glove, by Holly Black
Ragnarok, by A.S. Byatt
Among Others, by Jo Walton
Dewey's Nine Lives, by Vicki Myron
In Other Worlds, by Margaret Atwood
Old Man's War, by John Scalzi
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, by Erik Larson
Gun Games, by Faye Kellerman
Doc, by Mary Doria Russell
The Kingdom of Gods, by N.K. Jemisin
The Broken Kingdoms, by N.K. Jemisin
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by N.K. Jemisin
The South Beach Diet Book, by Arthur Agatston
Becoming Animal, by David Abram
The Tears of the Sun, by S.M. Sterling
A House Unlocked, by Penelope Lively
The Neandertal Enigma, by James Shreeve
Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, graphic novel by Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola and Al Williamson
The Beastly Bride, ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Troll's Eye View, ed. by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Islands, by Anne Rivers Siddons
Lionheart, by Sharon Kay Penman
Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia, by Stephen DeStefano
Hootcat Hill, by Lucy Coats
Death of Kings, by Bernard Cornwell
The Burning Land, by Bernard Cornwell
Sword Song, by Bernard Cornwell
Lords of the North, by Bernard Cornwell
Snuff, by Terry Pratchett
The Pale Horseman, by Bernard Cornwell
The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell
Agincourt, by Bernard Cornwell
The Stones are Hatching, by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millenium (An Englishman's World), by Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger
No Great Mischief, by Alistair MacLeod
The Next Queen of Heaven, by Gregory Maguire
Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
The Chalice and The Blade, by Riane Eisler