Discover new books on Goodreads

Meet your next favorite book

86 ratings (3.50 avg)
47 reviews

Emma

Add friend

Emma’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (231)
currently-reading‎ (3)
read‎ (107)

did-not-finish‎ (3)
pending‎ (8)
god-tier‎ (14)

wait‎ (4)
poetry-i-come-back-to‎ (3)
childhood-faves‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Emma is Currently Reading

Emma is currently reading

Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660 (Norton Critical Editions) (2005-12-29)

by Unknown .

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

progress:

(7%)
"Currently reading:
Wroth (“Pamphilia to Amphilanthus” 1, 40, and 68), Donne (“The Flea”, “Holy Sonnet XIV”, and “Batter My Heart”)" — Oct 25, 2026 02:11PM

Oct 25, 2026 02:04PM

Emma is currently reading

The Broadview Anthology of American Literature Volume A: Beginnings to 1820

by Derrick R. Spires

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

progress:

(49%)
"Have read so far:
Ben Franklin (Address), Native American Removal and Resistance (Tecumseh, Apess), Women’s perspectives (Child, Grimke), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism)
This book is so big I thought surely we are not reading all of that. My professor laughed in my face. It’s like I’m in an English degree or something" — Oct 25, 2026 02:04PM

Sep 30, 2026 09:51AM

Emma is currently reading

East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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

progress:

(page 147 of 601)
"Part two has one of the best openings I’ve ever read.
“When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God.”" — Jun 29, 2026 05:50PM

Jun 03, 2026 04:51PM

Emma’s Quotes

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: life

2314 likes

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

5500 likes

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley

1366 likes

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

tags: ideas, libraries, sarah-j-maas, throne-of-glass

11047 likes

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

5240 likes

More of Emma’s quotes…

recent posts
Emma’s Groups

BROSKI NATION — 3159 members — last activity Aug 24, 2026 05:47AM
Book Club for Brittany Broski stans and everyone is welcome :) Will update with all books she talks about on her podcast The Broski Report and her TT, ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22487 members — last activity 26 minutes 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