Sharon

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Sharon’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (351)
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read‎ (992)
did-not-finish‎ (1)
non-fiction‎ (62)
fantasy-sci-fi-speculative‎ (41)
memoir‎ (37)
young-adult‎ (32)
fiction‎ (29)
poetry‎ (23)
classics‎ (19)
graphic-novel‎ (19)

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holocaust-ww2-fiction‎ (14)
kids‎ (14)
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southern-lit‎ (13)
mississippi‎ (11)
comics‎ (10)
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international‎ (9)
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young-adult-reading-challenge‎ (8)
biography‎ (7)
romance‎ (7)
spiritual‎ (7)
around-the-world-challenge‎ (6)
fairytales‎ (6)
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race‎ (4)
gothic‎ (3)
magic‎ (3)
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feminism‎ (2)
mythology‎ (2)
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work‎ (2)
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Jones County Junior College — 12 members — last activity Aug 25, 2010 08:35AM
for employees, students, and friends of Jones County Junior College in Ellisville, MS to share and discuss favorite books on nearly any topic

¡ POETRY ! — 22517 members — last activity Jun 24, 2026 01:55PM
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

Around the World — 1903 members — last activity Jun 24, 2026 01:08PM
Each year we look at our to-be-read shelves and choose which countries of the world we want to travel through. Some of our members map their journeys ...more

Around the World in 80 Books — 31423 members — last activity 2 hours, 33 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

On the Southern Literary Trail — 2222 members — last activity 7 hours, 31 min ago
Whether you prefer Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers or more recent authors of Southern Literature such as Clyde Edgerton, Tom Franklin, William Gay, or M ...more

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