Sign in with Facebook
13,113 books
—
80,181 voters
A DiscipleTrip is the unstructured, undefined, adventure-filled walk that occurs when Jesus is at the center of life and relationships.
“Waiting for the end of innocence. And an idiot is waiting for the end of idiocy too, but he’s ugly doing it. So each ends himself in the meeting, in exchange for a merging.”
― More Than Human
― More Than Human
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
― Angela’s Ashes
― Angela’s Ashes
“With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler.
A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it.”
― Angela’s Ashes
A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it.”
― Angela’s Ashes
“In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced.”
―
―
“People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.
Above all -- we were wet.”
―
Above all -- we were wet.”
―
The Seasonal Reading Challenge
— 9108 members
— last activity 2 hours, 49 min ago
Do you want to broaden your reading horizons and discover new books, authors and genres? Do you love reading challenges? Do you live for competition? ...more
One Million Pages Per Lifetime
— 477 members
— last activity Jan 04, 2026 08:17AM
On the book site Shelfari, there is a person whose life goal is to read 1,000,000 (million) pages! We thought that it would be fun to have this goal h ...more
House of Leaves Read-along!
— 11 members
— last activity Jun 30, 2015 10:55AM
Where we discuss, as a cool bunch of gals, the awesomeness and scariness of House of Leaves. The read-along is going to be for the entire month of Jun ...more
Tesla’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tesla’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
562 books
|
167 friends
250 books
|
100 friends
113 books
|
37 friends
976 books
|
35 friends
1,005 books
|
131 friends
331 books
|
63 friends
562 books
|
35 friends
254 books
|
88 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Biography, Children's, Christian, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
Polls voted on by Tesla
Lists liked by Tesla
