Fhemi Adeyemo
https://linktr.ee/femi._.reads
Animal Farm
by
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was
...more
.🍃. liked this
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
― Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
― Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
―
―
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
―
―
The book you like most
— 49885 members
— last activity 2 hours, 3 min ago
This group (ranked in the TOP 100 most popular groups on Goodreads) is dedicated to the "Vision and Story" project. Additionally, the group THE BOOK ...more
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
— 16209 members
— last activity 45 minutes ago
The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more
Classics and the Western Canon
— 4956 members
— last activity 8 hours, 45 min ago
This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
Teen Book Lovers ⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆
— 454 members
— last activity 4 hours, 27 min ago
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐬! Spring is in full swing with the beautiful flowers popping up and all the animals are wande ...more
Fhemi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Fhemi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Fhemi
Lists liked by Fhemi













































