Homa S

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Homa.


Evan Burl and the...
Homa S is currently reading
by Justin Blaney (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Mythical Doorways
Homa S is currently reading
by H.L. Burke (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
David Copperfield
Homa S is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 790 of 882)
"So this was an interesting read for me. Long and a bit tedious, but it reminded me a lot of the French works that I've read that have autobiographical. It captures the essence of the time and it has a lot of quips and humor folded in. I appreciate the subtle interjections of a narrator looking back on his younger self and poking fun at his own naïveté. I liked the play between supposed "nobles" and the lower class" Sep 24, 2016 06:35AM

 
See all 21 books that Homa is reading…
Loading...
Sylvia Plath
“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.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Ernest Hemingway
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Henry Miller
“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”
Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Zadie Smith
“Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. To that end she had tried banning television in the early years, and never had a lipstick or a woman's magazine crossed the threshold of the Belsey home to Kiki's knowledge, but these and other precautionary measures had made no difference. It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies-- it seeped in with every draught in the house; people brought it home on their shoes, they breathed it in off their newspapers. There was no way to control it.”
Zadie Smith, On Beauty

1218 The Next Best Book Club — 26129 members — last activity 6 hours, 37 min ago
Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more
year in books
Cassand...
4,118 books | 884 friends

Beth Pe...
803 books | 31 friends

Jackson
3,400 books | 100 friends

Annie Yueh
464 books | 112 friends

Erica
1,746 books | 96 friends

Lauren ...
170 books | 54 friends

Jean M ...
6 books | 20 friends

Marilyn...
0 books | 6 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Homa

Lists liked by Homa