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Taming 7 (Boys of Tommen, #5)

by Chloe Walsh (Goodreads Author)

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"I just really don’t like the title of this book because it has absolutely nothing to do with his character.

I’m, like, scared. I thought this was gonna be funny haha because it’s about the funny haha character but the funny haha character hears funny haha in his brain when no one is hahaing" — 8 hours, 18 min ago

Jul 16, 2026 12:26PM

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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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"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

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Emma’s Quotes

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

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“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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

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

tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley

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“We each survive in our own way.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

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BROSKI NATION — 3017 members — last activity Jul 12, 2026 03:02AM
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 ! — 22513 members — last activity Jul 17, 2026 05:50PM
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