Sign in with Facebook
more photos (2)
Therese Doucet’s Followers (164)
22,713 books
|
252 friends
187 books
|
44 friends
408 books
|
31 friends
2,645 books
|
1,136 friends
1,416 books
|
20 friends
1,033 books
|
158 friends
25,557 books
|
1,513 friends
4,004 books
|
647 friends
More friends…
Therese Doucet
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Member Since
August 2011
To ask
Therese Doucet
questions,
please sign up.
|
The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment
—
published
2020
—
5 editions
|
|
|
A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel
—
published
2011
—
3 editions
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Quick Q&A on The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment
(This Q&A was cross-posted on Goodreads.com.)
Just wanted to respond to a few questions that potential readers have asked about my new book, The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment, which was released Feb. 4, 2020 – and I’ll keep questions open for a while on the book’s Goodreads page in case anyone else has others!
Q. Is this a Beauty and the Beast retelling?
A. I intended the book to weave t
Read more of this blog post »
Therese’s Recent Updates
"Just as adorable as the first one.
Just as good the second time." |
|
"This book started out so strong! The set up and the first two-thirds were entertaining with just enough explanation of the magic system to understand, but not so much as to get bogged down. Then, we get to a point where one of the (immortal, centurie"
Read more of this review »
|
|
“And there was yet another difference between them. This one only visible to those who watched them keenly, studied the two boys over many moments and over many moons. But of course, no one could do that. Older Brother and Younger Brother were the only two people on earth. The difference was this: The older brother loved all thing, but the younger brother loved only himself. You would think such a thing would be readily apparent in a person, even obvious, but no, it isn't. Such a thing is often opaque and easily masked. And could take a lifetime to see, whether we love ourselves only or everything equally.”
...more Shobha Rao |
|
“A contemporary joke: An airplane carrying Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels crashes. All three are killed. Who is saved? Answer: The German people.”
Ian Buruma |
|
|
"This is a memoir account by the author of spending the years of WW2 with his parents in Berlin. The title refers to a common greeting among people during the ordeal in Berlin about the need for everyone to focus on staying alive. The book is well wri"
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Therese
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| This was a fascinating history of life in Berlin during World War II. I found it pretty gripping and hard to put down. The author uses mostly first-person accounts and interviews, as well as his personal family history, to assemble his narrative, so ...more | |
"Definitely a super fun read but I found myself wishing the plot went in several different directions at various points. The tech problems seemed a little too easily solved, the ending was a tad cliche, etc. But definitely a page turner. I'm looking f"
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Therese
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| I saw the movie before reading the book, and it's one of those rare cases where it's hard to say which I enjoyed more, because both were fantastic. The movie maybe had more hilarious scenes, and the book had more fun science and math digressions. Wou ...more | |
|
Therese
is currently reading
|
|
|
Therese
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| A funny novel by a Canadian author about the aftermath of twentysomething young woman's marriage dissolving. This book was definitely a journey. It started off with me thinking it was going to be about the narrator's nice, quirky group of friends sup ...more | |
“Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.”
― A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel
― A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel
“I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being–-not by any approximation in thought, but by being. I want to be and not be ashamed of being.”
― A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel
― A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel
“Leaving your religion and having to invent your own system of values is a big deal, after all.”
―
―
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Making Connections:
5596. The Prisoner of the Castle of Enlightenment by Therese Doucet
|
7 | 20 | Nov 12, 2019 04:48PM |
“As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.”
―
―
“And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people who could be replaced as easily as broken windowpanes, he would go and pour out his heart to Momo. And, even as he spoke, he would come to realize by some mysterious means that he was absolutely wrong: that there was only one person like himself in the whole world, and that, consequently, he mattered to the world in his own particular way.
Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
―
Such was Momo's talent for listening.”
―
“No sex?" He looked at me in disbelief. "Well if you can't have ze sex, what can you do?"
For the sake of simplicity I took my left arm and lined it up just under my collarbones. "Nothing below here," I said. I took my right arm and lined it up to my knees. "Nothing above here."
"What about your armpit?" he asked. "Can your boyfriend do anything he wants to your armpit?"
I thought about it. Armpits seemed pretty harmless. "Yeah," I said optimistically. "My boyfriend can do anything he wants to my armpit."
"This is good," the Frenchman said. "He can stick his penis in and out of your armpit, and if you grow hair there it is almost like vagine."
Is it too late to change my answer? I wondered, pulling a cardigan over my bare shoulders and covering any hint of an invitation.”
― The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir
For the sake of simplicity I took my left arm and lined it up just under my collarbones. "Nothing below here," I said. I took my right arm and lined it up to my knees. "Nothing above here."
"What about your armpit?" he asked. "Can your boyfriend do anything he wants to your armpit?"
I thought about it. Armpits seemed pretty harmless. "Yeah," I said optimistically. "My boyfriend can do anything he wants to my armpit."
"This is good," the Frenchman said. "He can stick his penis in and out of your armpit, and if you grow hair there it is almost like vagine."
Is it too late to change my answer? I wondered, pulling a cardigan over my bare shoulders and covering any hint of an invitation.”
― The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir
Making Connections
— 14852 members
— last activity Apr 23, 2026 10:24AM
Read, Review, and Make Connections
Goodreads Reviewers' Group
— 13502 members
— last activity 2 hours, 32 min ago
This group helps to bring Reviewers and Authors together! Reviewers can make their own thread to post their reviews in, or post their reviews in the r ...more
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 321283 members
— last activity 3 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
THE Group for Authors!
— 13013 members
— last activity Apr 22, 2026 06:28PM
This is a group for authors to discuss their craft, as well as publishing and book marketing.
Advanced Copies for Review & Book Giveaways
— 16211 members
— last activity 9 hours, 24 min ago
A place to help authors and reviewers come together to get the word out about new books as well as a group for anyone to post or enter listings for bo ...more
Goodreads Authors/Readers
— 56479 members
— last activity 23 minutes ago
This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websit ...more
Historical Fictionistas
— 16149 members
— last activity 1 hour, 2 min ago
Welcome to Historical Fictionistas! We want to experience all different kinds of HF with all different kinds of people. The more diverse, the better. ...more
First Novels & Memoirs
— 66 members
— last activity Jun 07, 2014 02:17PM
a book club focused on...surprise surprise...first novels and memoirs...
Ex-Mormon Atheists
— 29 members
— last activity Aug 08, 2013 11:21AM
This is a group for anyone who was at one time a member of the LDS Church but no longer believes in god(s), and is interested in reading, researching ...more
Quirky humour
— 417 members
— last activity Dec 17, 2019 02:25AM
A group dedicated to Quirky Humour. Talk about wry, witty, quirky books. Or basically, books with an unusual or unconventional sense of humour. Don´t ...more
