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Amanda is Currently Reading

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She'll Be the Sky: Poems by Women and Girls (Poetry Collections)

by Ella Risbridger

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The Curse of Eelgrass Bog

by Mary Averling (Goodreads Author)

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The Last Bookstore on Earth

by Lily Braun-Arnold (Goodreads Author)

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Amanda’s Quotes

“I was born with a reading list I will never finish.”
― Maud Casey

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“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

tags: books, reading

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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

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“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

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“The universe is math on fire.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

tags: belief, fire, math, numbers, theory, universe

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Graphic Novel Reading Group — 5446 members — last activity Jul 14, 2026 11:07AM
This is a place where lovers of the Sequential Art form of Literature (graphic novels, comic books, manga, etc.) can get together and talk about their ...more

COMIC BOOK CRAZIES — 336 members — last activity Jul 25, 2026 09:34AM
We read comics all the time! https://www.facebook.com/COMIC-BOOK-Crazies-290288951356668/s

¡ POETRY ! — 22506 members — last activity Jul 31, 2026 02:04PM
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

Mock Printz 2027 — 1175 members — last activity May 14, 2026 09:00AM
Reading the best of the best in Young Adult literature published in the previous year. Our goal is to find the book the American Library Association's ...more