402 ratings (3.98 avg)
197 reviews

Ashley

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/ashleynemurphy

Ashley’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (93)
currently-reading‎ (2)

read‎ (435)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

rose-s-great-books‎ (79)
dnf‎ (12)

lehigh-valley-history‎ (10)

Stats | More…

Ashley is Currently Reading

Ashley is currently reading

Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jun 29, 2026 04:51AM

Ashley is currently reading

Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture

by Annelise Heinz

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Jun 24, 2026 07:55AM

Ashley’s Quotes

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism

396 likes

“If he failed, it was with honor.
In his name we all dwell
in Camelot

Long after the towers fall,
and merlins nest
in the ruined stones.”
― Jane Yolen

tags: arthurian, camelot, death, fairy-tales, fantasy, grieving, lancelot, legacy, poetry

1 likes

Goodreads Librarians Group — 331381 members — last activity 2 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

¡ POETRY ! — 22514 members — last activity 22 hours, 53 min ago
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Timeless Tales Magazine — 40 members — last activity Sep 05, 2020 11:22AM
If you're interested in fairy tales and mythology, this is the right place for you! Join our group to add to our shelves and join discussions! Timel ...more