4,867 books
—
5,911 voters
August
https://www.goodreads.com/august111
Dove Keeper
by
Words, tiny little black worms crushed together, squirming and slipping away until they gave Jehanne a dull headache.
“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Angela’s Ashes
― Angela’s Ashes
“On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.”
― Elsewhere
― Elsewhere
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed?
He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?”
― Angela’s Ashes
He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?”
― Angela’s Ashes
Neurodivergent Writers
— 36 members
— last activity Mar 13, 2021 11:46AM
Welcome! We're an online community celebrating neurodivergent writers & stories with mental illness. Our home base is neurodivergentwriters.co and htt ...more
She Would Read Society
— 66 members
— last activity Aug 13, 2018 03:00PM
Connecting and Promoting Book Bloggers, Professional Beta-Readers and Aspiring Authors
Rosieberries!
— 33 members
— last activity May 06, 2020 06:32AM
For fans & readers of Rosie Zayne's books! ...more
Beta Readers
— 94 members
— last activity Nov 14, 2017 11:15PM
Hello everyone, My name is Kadian Thomas, and I'm the author of young adult fantasy novel Sparks Fly. I'm currently working on book two and three i ...more
August’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at August’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by August
Lists liked by August




























































