Haya! Just finished reading this. If you were a delegate in the Commission Conference 2024 by FOCUS Kenya, you have this book tacked away or shelved somewhere, here’s a word from me if you care for it: please read the book. 📚\n🙌
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/07/18/haya-just-finished-reading-this/","date_published":"2026-07-18T11:45:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-18 11:45","date_timestamp":1784375137,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94223782","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781662812132/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: Africa to the Rest by Yaw Perbi, Sam Ngugi. Such an encouraging read!📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/07/18/finished-reading-africa-to-the/","date_published":"2026-07-18T11:44:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-18 11:44","date_timestamp":1784375083,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94220696","content_html":"It usually happens that I procrastinate about reading a book, but once I get into it, I feel like I should have started reading it much sooner. This feels so refreshing and illuminating🙌\nI hope i find more Kenyan biographies and memoirs as good as or even better than this. Recommendations? 📚
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/07/18/it-usually-happens-that-i/","date_published":"2026-07-18T10:23:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-18 10:23","date_timestamp":1784370219,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94210785","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9781578989461/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: Keys to the Deeper Life by A. W. Tozer. Very sobering.📚
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\nJust finished reading: Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston. Clearly this one here is a preparation for more comprehensive titles. Also, it is the kind of book one ought to return to several times since it isn’t as if I am suddenly better at arguments for reading it once. It’s pretty brief and concise,...
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\nFinished reading: The Voyage of the Downtreader by Clive Staples Lewis 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/07/16/finished-reading-the-voyage-of/","date_published":"2026-07-16T17:59:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-16 17:59","date_timestamp":1784224747,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93770831","content_html":"Thomas Pynchon’s review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera
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\nFinished reading: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 📚.
\nWhat a ride!
C. S. Lewis, We have no right to happiness, God in the Dock:
\n\nhenrymadaga.com","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/07/05/c-s-lewis-we-have/","date_published":"2026-07-04T22:53:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-04 22:53","date_timestamp":1783205604,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93448731","content_html":"It is part of the nature of a strong erotic passion—as distinct from a transient fit of appetite—that it makes more towering promises than any other emotion. No doubt all our desires make promises, but not so impressively. To be in love involves the almost irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness. Hence all seems to be at stake. If we miss this chance we shall have lived in...
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Samuel Johnson, the uncertainty of friendship
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\nCurrently reading: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/07/04/currently-reading-fathers-and-sons/","date_published":"2026-07-04T13:02:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-04 13:02","date_timestamp":1783170145,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93198801","content_html":"My July Reading List and a reflection on June’s Reading
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/06/30/my-july-reading-list-and/","date_published":"2026-06-30T17:10:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-30 17:10","date_timestamp":1782839415,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93198366","content_html":"When the Bible is pretty sarcastic: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/06/30/when-the-bible-is-pretty/","date_published":"2026-06-30T17:03:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-30 17:03","date_timestamp":1782839037,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93140162","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780312144074/cover.jpg\")
\nI have stopped reading The Samurai’s Garden A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama 📚. I remember being so excited about reading the book, but it has turned out to be so underwhelming. I only had 20 pages or so to go, but I see no point in going on when all that’s in my mind is wanting to be done with the book and to...
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\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/06/28/th-philokalia-discussion-tonight-on/","date_published":"2026-06-28T16:17:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-28 16:17","date_timestamp":1782663441,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"93036008","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780830828456/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: The history of Christian thought by Hill, Jonathan 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/06/27/finished-reading-the-history-of/","date_published":"2026-06-27T18:44:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F12e31d00151d2255969b78358ab56b18%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-27 18:44","date_timestamp":1782585874,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92928193","content_html":"@elliotlovegrove Oh wow. I really didn’t expect that things would turn out as they did; that Smaug would die as he did and that there would be a war afterwards. I felt so moved several times in those last pages. I had, however, had a little of a hard time with the first bits of the book. I hope when I get to reread it I will have much more fun now. I envy you for having read it as a kid.
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\nFinished reading: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚
\n💜🥳
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\nFinished reading: Night by Elie Wiesel 📚
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\nFinished reading: Beloved by Toni Morrison 📚\nMy oh my!
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@ayjay This looks nice🔥
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\nFinished reading: The Narnian by Alan Jacobs 📚
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\nFinished reading: The Republic by Plato 📚
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