Sign in with Facebook
31,417 books
—
119,711 voters
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Sailing Alone around the World
― Sailing Alone around the World
“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
―
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
―
“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Black Boy
― Black Boy
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes
“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
―
―
Raju Kumar’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Raju Kumar’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
6 books
|
51 friends
2 books
|
17 friends
41 books
|
1,606 friends
7 books
|
21 friends
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Raju Kumar
Lists liked by Raju Kumar
