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\nCurrently reading: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James 📚
\nLecture I: Religion and Neurology:
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\nFinished reading: Emma by Jane Austen 📚
\nSuch a delightful read 💜. I have really loved and admired Mr. Knightley. And I think I have met Austen at just the right time in my life.
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\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/26/scott-hubbard-how-might-you/","date_published":"2026-10-26T18:35:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-26 18:35","date_timestamp":1793039717,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99914586","content_html":"How might you tidy your living room if Jesus himself asked you to do it? How might you take out the trash? How might you study for a test, or prepare a slideshow, or serve a hard-to-love church member? Would you receive the task differently if it came from the one who died for you, rose for you, and rescued you?
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@JohnBrady I discerned that so soon as I began. All those descriptions risk meaning nothing to someone who doesn’t get them, or appreciate them. It wasn’t particularly easy to read, but it has felt so worth it. This is one that I must reread.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/99910101","date_published":"2026-10-26T15:47:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-26 15:47","date_timestamp":1793029650,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99908237","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780060915186/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: An American childhood by Annie Dillard 📚
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/26/finished-reading-an-american-childhood/","date_published":"2026-10-26T15:15:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-26 15:15","date_timestamp":1793027740,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99905481","content_html":"What would you do if you had fifteen minutes to live before the bomb went off? Quick: what would you read?
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John Piper: Happiness Myths to Avoid
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/26/john-piper-happiness-myths-to/","date_published":"2026-10-26T14:23:41+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-26 14:23","date_timestamp":1793024621,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99786530","content_html":"@calebgreene Same thing here! I almost gasped aloud when I read it the first time.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/99786530","date_published":"2026-10-24T06:58:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-24 06:58","date_timestamp":1792825102,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99743385","content_html":"@isaacgreene A good choice. And I bet it’s so hard not to love Puddleglum.
\nMy best of the Narnia books has to be the Horse and His Boy. The whole bit about Aslan being always part of Shasta’s story and journey, and Arabia’s too, really moved and spoke to me.
@isaacgreene yeah. Only it’s so easy to always forget the gift of a normal day. There’s a nice Emerson essay, Work and Days, that I immediately thought about.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/99743191","date_published":"2026-10-23T13:10:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-23 13:10","date_timestamp":1792761030,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"99741642","content_html":"Frank Churchill:
\n\n\nIt is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck—and will generally be ill-luck. How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!”
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I think there’s truth in this. And not only women
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","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/22/normal-day/","date_published":"2026-10-22T10:27:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-22 10:27","date_timestamp":1792664852,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99483358","content_html":"Jane Austen's Emma: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/19/jane-austens-emma/","date_published":"2026-10-19T08:49:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-19 08:49","date_timestamp":1792399798,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99319890","content_html":"Giving up on heaven: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/16/giving-up-on-heaven/","date_published":"2026-10-16T07:07:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 07:07","date_timestamp":1792134470,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99282880","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780140065978/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene 📚
\nDeceptively simple. Such a refreshing yet still challenging read. I would like to read this one again. Borrowed it from the Medical School Christian Union Library. I hope there are some few people who have read it who are up for a discussion.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/15/finished-reading-monsignor-quixote-by/","date_published":"2026-10-15T15:31:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-15 15:31","date_timestamp":1792078297,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99282193","content_html":"Knowledge of the Truth which leads to Godliness: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/15/knowledge-of-the-truth-which/","date_published":"2026-10-15T15:20:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-15 15:20","date_timestamp":1792077636,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99228830","content_html":"Things Unseen: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/14/things-unseen/","date_published":"2026-10-14T18:21:38+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 18:21","date_timestamp":1792002098,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99159236","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780486280486/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 📚 I have finished the second reading of this remarkable book. Courtesy of the Catherine Project.
\nWhat a book! What a story! What a lesson!
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/13/finished-reading-the-scarlet-letter/","date_published":"2026-10-13T16:10:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-13 16:10","date_timestamp":1791907850,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99149451","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780007117307/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis 📚🥳\nJust finished The Last Battle. Now I have finished all the seven stories🥳
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/13/finished-reading-the-chronicles-of/","date_published":"2026-10-13T13:09:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-13 13:09","date_timestamp":1791896986,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99135361","content_html":"Comfort one another: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/13/comfort-one-another/","date_published":"2026-10-13T08:00:39+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-13 08:00","date_timestamp":1791878439,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99071143","content_html":"Reflections from Ephesians 1; that the eyes of our hearts may be enlightened: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/12/reflections-from-ephesians-that-the/","date_published":"2026-10-12T03:37:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-12 03:37","date_timestamp":1791776274,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99025584","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/books/9780664246808/cover.jpg\")
\nFinished reading: Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments by Joy Davidman 📚
\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/11/finished-reading-smoke-on-the/","date_published":"2026-10-11T05:20:45+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-11 05:20","date_timestamp":1791696045,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98928628","content_html":"Thus and Thus You Shall Say to Her: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/09/thus-and-thus-you-shall/","date_published":"2026-10-09T10:21:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-09 10:21","date_timestamp":1791541268,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98828997","content_html":"Jane Austen:
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/07/jane-austen-there-is-one/","date_published":"2026-10-07T18:30:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-07 18:30","date_timestamp":1791397855,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98786949","content_html":"“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chooses, and that is, his duty; not by manœuvering and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.
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The Lying Old Prophet: henrymadaga.com
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","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/06/foolish-galatians-only-its-kings/","date_published":"2026-10-06T03:10:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-06 03:10","date_timestamp":1791256200,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98713124","content_html":"God's Sovereign Rule Over All His Creation: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/05/gods-sovereign-rule-over-all/","date_published":"2026-10-05T19:39:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-05 19:39","date_timestamp":1791229147,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98686968","content_html":"Charles Spurgeon, Mornings and Evenings, Morning October 5: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/05/charles-spurgeon-mornings-and-evenings/","date_published":"2026-10-05T10:02:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-05 10:02","date_timestamp":1791194554,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98685840","content_html":"Joy Davidman Lewis: henrymadaga.com
","summary":"","url":"https://henrymadaga.com/2026/10/05/joy-davidman-lewis/","date_published":"2026-10-05T09:38:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-05 09:38","date_timestamp":1791193109,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96211705","content_html":"@isaacgreene You have probably read Anna Karenina. If not, I am really sorry for the following spoiler. During child birth Anna Karenina asks for Alexi Alexandrovich’s forgiveness, in a sense ‘confessing’. The thing is that she does all that knowing she will die. Well, she does not, and that introduces many complexities and complications for the ensuing plot. I have wondered for a moment what it would have been like if Rev. Mr. Dimmesdale had not died on the scaffold immediately after his confession. I feel like that too would introduce quite a bit of messiness. And that’s really the thing for most of us, that, well, after confessing, there’s life to we are to continue living afterwards…
\nIt’s Alan Jacob’s essay, Status Anxiety, that has prompted the thought. You can have a look at it if you have a minute.
\nWhich ones are the rest of Hawthorne’s books that you would recommend?
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\n“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!”
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/96199612","date_published":"2026-08-22T08:00:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-22 08:00","date_timestamp":1787385612,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95518466","content_html":"@isaacgreene What about if one were to read The Hours before Mrs. Dalloway? Or before any of Woolf’s titles. I am yet to own a copy of her books, but I have Cunningham’s The Hours
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/95518466","date_published":"2026-08-10T13:35:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-10 13:35","date_timestamp":1786368942,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94994142","content_html":"@isaacgreene yes, it will be my first time. Really looking forward to it. I hope, and really expect, that it will be a good one🔥.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/94857945","date_published":"2026-07-29T15:21:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 15:21","date_timestamp":1785338512,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"94857909","content_html":"@ayjay Prof. Jacob, I think I really love the current structure of your big blog. The navigations is much more easier than it was before, which makes it less of a struggle to move back and forth. I think I would also appreciate a page with all the tags in one place but that’s not such trouble as it is.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/94857909","date_published":"2026-07-29T15:21:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 15:21","date_timestamp":1785338461,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"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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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/madaga/92106085","date_published":"2026-06-13T13:30:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Henry Madaga ","url":"https://madaga.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F36%2F1799999.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"madaga"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-13 13:30","date_timestamp":1781357442,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"edit_url":null,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90283993","content_html":"@isaacgreene So glad for you! I don’t think I have ever got over the book myself. I am always thinking about how sad everything turned out in the end to be, and how perfectly the story reads every single time!
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