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What I read: June 2025

Posted on June 30, 2025June 29, 2025 by amypeveto

The Memoirs of Stockholm SvenNathaniel Ian Miller “To each side, ice accumulated in pinched slag heaps. The crevasses must have been terrible indeed, and I shuddered at the thought of peering into the void of one. A cold exhaled breath from some deep place where the world knew only freezing, crushing, grinding, and time measured…

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What I read: June 2024

Posted on June 30, 2024July 3, 2025 by amypeveto

Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of LivingDavid FidelerNon-fiction, paperback “Virtue, or excellence of one’s inner character, is the only true good.” More than any other ancient philosophy, Stoicism has stood the test of time because of its universal relevance. No matter where/when we live or the specifics of our circumstances, we…

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What I read: December 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023June 29, 2025 by amypeveto

The QuickLauren OwenFiction, hardback, library book “There were owls in the nursery when James was a boy.” When James Norbury moves to London after his graduation from Oxford, he tells his sister Charlotte that it’s with the intention of becoming a writer. Soon, however, he finds himself pulled away from his efforts by a charming…

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What I read: August 2023

Posted on September 1, 2023July 3, 2025 by amypeveto

EnchiridionEpictetusNon-fiction, paperback “Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.” If Seneca’s writings (see below) are…

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